More Rampage vs UFC drama

[kansas husker]

I can't help but get caught up in the war with words between the two sides.

 

"They've said some things and done some things that I don't agree with That's not the way I do business," Rampage said. "I am a loyal person, people take care of me and I take care of them. So I am done with the UFC, they can't ask any more favors from me, nothing. I just want to finish my contract and get out of there, do my own thing.

 

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[mmmtodd]

This is a hard one to call for me...everything Ive ever seen and heard about how Dana runs the UFC, and the success its enjoyed under him, points to him being a damn stand up guy. A hardass, sure, but a smart one that obviously doesnt make a habit of pissing people off. In particular there was a great Esquire profile of him awhile back, which included the reporter following him as he went ahead and doubled Shoguns check after his questionable loss. Ill see if I can find it.

 

Esquire's People Who Matter 2010

 

Visibly angry with the decision — Who cares what I think? I'm only the f'ing' promoter! — White retreats with his entourage to his private dressing room, where he is joined by two financial officers from Zuffa. Along with Lorenzo Fertitta, White decides who should win the bonus money for best submission and the rest. Bonus checks for all the fighters are written out by hand. When they get to Shogun's check, White orders the accountants to "pay the taxes." Meaning, essentially, that he wants Shogun's previously contracted payday to be doubled.

 

With a check for $250,000 in hand, White goes off looking for Shogun.

 

When the defeated challenger sees the boss enter his dressing room, he rises shamefacedly from his bench — his body language says defendant about to be sentenced. His manager stands stolidly at his left elbow; his entourage surrounds him in a semicircle.

 

White hands Shogun his check. He points to the amount. "Tell him that's the real number," White instructs the manager.

 

"Thank you, thank you very much," Shogun says in heavily accented English. Back home in Curitiba, Brazil, his wife is expecting their first child. He looks appreciative — if not exactly satisfied.

 

"We paid the taxes," White reiterates. Maybe he didn't understand? He points to the check again. "That's the real number there. That's take-home pay."

 

Shogun listens to the translation. He ratchets his proud, chiseled jaw one crank higher. "Okay, thank you," he says. "Thank you very much."

 

"I know it doesn't erase what happened."

 

Resigned: "No, no problem."

 

"But it's gotta make you feel a little better." White elbows the fighter playfully in the triceps — I just gave you an extra hundred grand, dude, lighten up!

[kansas husker]

So I follow Rampage on twitter and tonight he posted that this was given as a gift ro him from the ufc apperantly they are on better terms than I thought here is the gift.