"@arielhelwani: RT @Ealvarezfight: @SUGARRAYLEONARD I think We both have something in Common , F ed by Bjorn Rebney .. would love to chat"
Great by the time Alvarez gets his next fight he will have forgotten how
sugar ray Leonard got fucked by rebney? not understanding the tweet
Bjork gets around it seems.
Hmmmm.....wonder what this means....
It means that Bjorn was a long time boxing promoter and probably fucked Sugar Ray the way he is fucking Eddie........
I read a article about bjorn being accused I killing SRL dogs ...
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Tat2tillidie - I read a article about bjorn being accused I killing SRL dogs ...
Indeed....
It wasn't Sugar Ray's dog that got killed. It was Seth Ersoff's, Rebney's former business partner. Spike through the head.
Sugar and Bjorn joined forces to change the way boxing management and promotion was done. They were accused of being worse. The FBI and dead dogs are jsut part of the tale.
http://ringtalk.com/the-real-story-behind-sugar-ray-leonard-bjorn-rebney-the-fbi-a-dead-dog
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RampageFitsLikeAGlove -
How is Bjorn fucking him? Aren't his obligations clear in the contract that he signed?
It's not about obligations, it's about compensation. UFC offered a contract that included a cut of PPV revenue. Bellator matched the contract as was their right; however (seeing as how Bellator has never held a PPV event), Eddie stands to make substantially less with Bellator than with UFC.
RampageFitsLikeAGlove -
How is Bjorn fucking him? Aren't his obligations clear in the contract that he signed?
Bellator's obligations are also clear, and they are not capable of actually matching the UFC offer, dollar for dollar, reasonably.
The tweet clearly says "Fed" Bjorn put food on their tables.
RampageFitsLikeAGlove -ThatPissCouldaBeenDigital -RampageFitsLikeAGlove -
How is Bjorn fucking him? Aren't his obligations clear in the contract that he signed?
It's not about obligations, it's about compensation. UFC offered a contract that included a cut of PPV revenue. Bellator matched the contract as was their right; however (seeing as how Bellator has never held a PPV event), Eddie stands to make substantially less with Bellator than with UFC.
So if that's the case, what you're saying is that the courts are fucking him, not Bjorn?
A PPV contract is a hypothetical contract, just as Bellator holding a PPV is a hypothetical situation. There have been PPV's between 200K and 1.5M buys. To say someones contract is 'X' amount of dollars plus PPV buys doesn't mean much. If the UFC really wanted to beat out Bellator, why put a hypothetical scenario in a contract? They could have estimated the # of PPV's on a card he was going to be on and put that into a dollar amount. Instead of saying "we'll give you $100K to show and $1 per PPV buy" on a card thats estimated to draw 500K buys, they could have put into the contract that they will pay him $600K in his first UFC fight. Bellator never would have matched it. Instead they made it easy for Bellator to say 'sure, we'll match that contract that doesn't have a dollar amount associated with it.'
Pretty sure it was $150k. Hypothetically, if it was $1 per PPV buy as well, and we only used a low-ball number of 200,000 buys, that brings his purse to $350k. Bellator is NOT paying him $350k.
That said, I agree with you. It IS the courts that are screwing him. His request for an injunction was denied because of hypotheticals on both UFC and Bellator. UFC for the PPV range nos. you mentioned; Bellator because IF they staged a PPV event, they would be obligated to pay a numbers-based percentage, just like the proposed UFC contract.