“I don’t like to come in and say, ‘I’ve done this and I’ve done that,’ because really, it takes a village to make something happen,” he said.”It takes a lot of people to make it successful. And to hear Dana White say, ‘I did this and I did that. It was me. And he didn’t do this and didn’t do that.’ Well, how in the world did they get to where they were at if it was just Dana? Because I didn’t see him in the ring. I didn’t see Dana fighting. I didn’t see the numbers go up when they had just Tito there. I didn’t see any of that.

“What I saw was me getting in there, building an organization, having a feud with Tito Ortiz to help build those numbers, along with Dana White and the corporation and the company to shoot that feud,” he continued. “And also to have Tito there, who was a great villain — to have someone going against me. And that’s how we did those numbers. Because we all got involved and did it.”

Shamrock said his issue with fighter pay was based upon his belief that the UFC will not let anyone look at their financials to see what ratio of profit the fighters are earning.

He says even in his own case where White said he made $2.5 million, how can anyone be sure?

“They will never let you get in there and see the books,” he said. “It’s not open. So then they make statements like that, and it doesn’t make sense.”

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