These guys deserve credit for helping MMA and MMA fighters way more than Dana White, imo.
1. Frank Shamrock
2. Josh Barnett
3. Nick Diaz
4. Tito Ortiz
5. Fedor
The list probably goes on...Ken Shamrock deserves an honourable mention for having the balls to try and sue.
Mikey Burnett
- Heath Herring
- BJ Penn
- Randy Couture
How did nick or fedor stand up to dana lol? They just didnt sign/resign with the UFC. Josh talks crap about dana but they really have nothing to do with one another. Tito is probably the only reasonable choice for an argument of how standing up to dana has possibly benefited the fighters.
Yup Randy for sure! I remember he left the UFC to hopefully set up a Fedor fight. BJ as well.
Dana white has done more for MMA fighters than anyone probably ever will...
ScottCL - How did nick or fedor stand up to dana lol? They just didnt sign/resign with the UFC. Josh talks crap about dana but they really have nothing to do with one another. Tito is probably the only reasonable choice for an argument of how standing up to dana has possibly benefited the fighters.
Dana says "Nick Diaz won't play the game" that's probably the blaf game, so Nick deserves to be on there.
LSelvon - These guys deserve credit for helping MMA and MMA fighters way more than Dana White, imo.
1. Frank Shamrock
2. Josh Barnett
3. Nick Diaz
4. Tito Ortiz
5. Fedor
The list probably goes on...Ken Shamrock deserves an honourable mention for having the balls to try and sue.
...could you please elaborate?For example,what exactly did they do(accomplish)to help fighters?
...Fighters want(simplifying)more$(from org),job security,sponsorship,health benefits,promotion,and exposure to other avenues of revenue(movies,tv,etc...).What did these guys tangible accomplish by going against the UFC(Dana)?
...I know for a fact some of them did help,but lets make this thread about fact at least,and not just bashing the UFC.
Donny MF'ing Frye!
Oh and Big John McCarthy, not a fighter in the techincal sense but still being black-balled in Nevada for doing the right thing.
John Fitch
Tito , Randy and BJ all stood up against one sided contracts with their likeness being taken away.
It helped them and hopefully helped open the eyes of some fighters. But I don't believe it has. Fighters still sign away everything. IMHO they helped themselves , with a possibility of helping others in the future. They were all financially stable and that's why they could do that. 
I give Heath mad props, he's a very game fighter who was brought in to lose to Brock and didn't look stellar but didn't even get another fight with the Zuffa Hype Machine to this day...
suess -Bumbaclot - Fuck Dana.
Fuck you, welcher.
AuzzieOsbourne -how much does he have? can't pay a 50 buck bet... damn hoping we can reach that level of success one day...Bumbaclot - Fuck Dana.
just cause he got everything you want and don't have?
hate the game not the playa
ArthurKnoqOut - I give Heath mad props, he's a very game fighter who was brought in to lose to Brock and didn't look stellar but didn't even get another fight with the Zuffa Hype Machine to this day...
Yeah, and that's some booshit right there. They should have set him up with more fights, if he wanted them.
Grakman -ArthurKnoqOut - I give Heath mad props, he's a very game fighter who was brought in to lose to Brock and didn't look stellar but didn't even get another fight with the Zuffa Hype Machine to this day...
Yeah, and that's some booshit right there. They should have set him up with more fights, if he wanted them.
I'm pretty sure last time I read some news of him he was talking about how difficult it is to make a living as an MMA fighter even a legend like Heath...I think if it wasn't for him making movies or whatever he'd be dead broke lol
Jens walked away from his belt because the contract they offered him after beating Uno, Hallman, and BJ was pure shit. He stood to make less than the guy he just beat. Might not have been the best thing to do, but being bitched by his boss wasn't in Jens' DNA.
While Fedor and the others have been perhaps more prominent, Randy Couture really stands alone in this area when you analyze it.
Forget his image, this is a man who isnt putting up with shit from ANY promoter or organization.
Randy straight up left the old UFC owners as their champion because he wanted more money. He took the ORIGINAL UFC title and went and lost it to the fighters in Japan. It never to this day has come back home.
He then came back and won the 3rd version of the UFC HW title. Then the sport starting growing. But Randy, and Randy alone had REFUSED TO EVER SIGN AWAY HIS RIGHTS TO HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS. They wound up having to airbrush him out of promotional shit after he wouldnt cave!
He then becomes a huge star in the Zuffa UFC, retires, comes back again and wins the 5th version of the belt, and then decides he didnt care for how much they offered Fedor so he was "RESIGNING" as the champ.
Then gets more money and comes back. To this day he doesnt appear in ANY video game except the EA sports worlwide MMA game!
This is a guy who was ruthless and played hardball when it came to looking out for #1.