“most lenient sports org on planet *ing Earth
White said the promotion was well within its rights to restrict certain sponsors, but there was not a blanket $100,000…
White said the promotion was well within its rights to restrict certain sponsors, but there was not a blanket $100,000 fee being instituted.
That $100,000 number was one of the businesses, he said. Depends on how big or how small your business is and how much you pay. We are the most lenient sports organization on planet (expletive) earth. When was the last time you saw guys wearing whatever they want in the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, World Cup Soccer? Do guys wear whatever they want when they walk in? No they don’t.
The policy had always been in effect, White continued.
What we did is actually a good thing. The bottom line is, we could always say who can sponsor and who can’t. They send in their list of sponsors and we say, ‘nope, you can’t have them, you can’t have them, you can’t have them,’ either because of pay-per-view, Spike TV, or because they conflict with our sponsors. Always been the case.
The contention over EA’s new video game appeared to be more of an issue of loyalty. White said his proclamation stemmed from the company’s unwillingness to work with the UFC in earlier negotiations.
I went to EA Sports, he said. Know what EA Sports said? ‘It’s not a sport. This isn’t a sport. We would never get involved in something like this.’ We come out with a video game and now they want to come out with a video game? (Expletive) you.
