James Toney signs multi fight deal with the UFC

[Mattyhitman]

If you swapped the pay of both sports and mixed martial artists were earning millions of dollars dont you think the likes of floyd mayweather and bernard hopkins wouldnt just jump over to that?

And if they did they would no doubt own every single division and once agan the white frat boys who cant take getting beat f*ck out of would simply devise ANOTHER contact sport that they could get their shoe in.

Tell floyd mayweather that randy couture is a better allround athlete. floyd wouldnt give 2 shits he`d merely compare both mens bank balances and that would be the end of the story. UFC fighters arent idiots, they all know they could potentially make millions in the sport of boxing but the difference being our sport is full to the brim with world quality operators wanting those million dollar paydays while UFC is an expanding franchise full of young untapped talent that simply played the numbers game and realised theyd be better keeping to a safe little payday fighting guys with 21-4 rather than compete in a sport with hundreds of world class athletes.

Randy Couture fights guys with records of 18-4, in boxing that record wouldnt even get you on the card as a filler fight let alone a main eventer!!

Ridiculous my friend

UFC fighters start off with a base fighting style, wrestling, BJJ, Kickboxing, Sambo, Muay Thai etc, very few start off with a boxing background then make the transition to MMA. Simply because they didnt want to do boxing at the very start of their fighting careers. These guys want to be MMA artists because thats what they WANT to be, regardless of the money involved, they do it for the love of the sport.

you seriously hand on heart believe that

You honestly think that none of the current UFC world champions have considered going into boxing and making millions just because they love MMA??

bollocks mate, they dont make the transition because they know the level of talent is just far too dense in boxing.

I`ll reiterate my point again, would mayweather, pacquiao, mosley heck even the likes of froch, kessler, hatton entertain the idea of main eventing against someone who has a 20% defeat record??

LMAO, you make me laugh with your ignorance

With the argument ya trying to make, lets say this then, why doesnt Usain Bolt become a footballer, he could earn way more money as a pro footballer, reason he doesnt is because his heart is in Athletics. Same with MMA, they hearts are in MMA not boxing.

[HattonTheHammer]

Ridiculous my friend

UFC fighters start off with a base fighting style, wrestling, BJJ, Kickboxing, Sambo, Muay Thai etc, very few start off with a boxing background then make the transition to MMA. Simply because they didnt want to do boxing at the very start of their fighting careers. These guys want to be MMA artists because thats what they WANT to be, regardless of the money involved, they do it for the love of the sport.

you seriously hand on heart believe that

You honestly think that none of the current UFC world champions have considered going into boxing and making millions just because they love MMA??

bollocks mate, they dont make the transition because they know the level of talent is just far too dense in boxing.

I`ll reiterate my point again, would mayweather, pacquiao, mosley heck even the likes of froch, kessler, hatton entertain the idea of main eventing against someone who has a 20% defeat record??

LMAO, you make me laugh with your ignorance

With the argument ya trying to make, lets say this then, why doesnt Usain Bolt become a footballer, he could earn way more money as a pro footballer, reason he doesnt is because his heart is in Athletics. Same with MMA, they hearts are in MMA not boxing.

usain bolt is a millionaire times and times over thats why

You think if he was only worth a few bob and man utd came in with a 150k a week contract he`d still run just for the love of it

[Mattyhitman]

you seriously hand on heart believe that

You honestly think that none of the current UFC world champions have considered going into boxing and making millions just because they love MMA??

bollocks mate, they dont make the transition because they know the level of talent is just far too dense in boxing.

I`ll reiterate my point again, would mayweather, pacquiao, mosley heck even the likes of froch, kessler, hatton entertain the idea of main eventing against someone who has a 20% defeat record??

LMAO, you make me laugh with your ignorance

With the argument ya trying to make, lets say this then, why doesnt Usain Bolt become a footballer, he could earn way more money as a pro footballer, reason he doesnt is because his heart is in Athletics. Same with MMA, they hearts are in MMA not boxing.

usain bolt is a millionaire times and times over thats why

You think if he was only worth a few bob and man utd came in with a 150k a week contract he`d still run just for the love of it

I give up with you, of course he would cos thats what he loves, it's NOT about the money with these guys !

[HattonTheHammer]

LMAO, you make me laugh with your ignorance

With the argument ya trying to make, lets say this then, why doesnt Usain Bolt become a footballer, he could earn way more money as a pro footballer, reason he doesnt is because his heart is in Athletics. Same with MMA, they hearts are in MMA not boxing.

usain bolt is a millionaire times and times over thats why

You think if he was only worth a few bob and man utd came in with a 150k a week contract he`d still run just for the love of it

I give up with you, of course he would cos thats what he loves, it's NOT about the money with these guys !

OMG you officially win stupid post of the day award

I love sitting at home, watching porn and playing poker, doesnt pay well at all mind so i have to go to work to earn a living

theoretically your suggest a broke Usain Bolt would turn down a multi million pound a year contract just to do what he enjoys doing. That sir is pure idiotic especially in this day and age

[Jimmy G-Force]

usain bolt is a millionaire times and times over thats why

You think if he was only worth a few bob and man utd came in with a 150k a week contract he`d still run just for the love of it

I give up with you, of course he would cos thats what he loves, it's NOT about the money with these guys !

OMG you officially win stupid post of the day award

I love sitting at home, watching porn and playing poker, doesnt pay well at all mind so i have to go to work to earn a living

theoretically your suggest a broke Usain Bolt would turn down a multi million pound a year contract just to do what he enjoys doing. That sir is pure idiotic especially in this day and age

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to be getting myself some of the shit your on dude

Thats some seriously fucked up shit right there.

[Kev]

Ridiculous my friend

UFC fighters start off with a base fighting style, wrestling, BJJ, Kickboxing, Sambo, Muay Thai etc, very few start off with a boxing background then make the transition to MMA. Simply because they didnt want to do boxing at the very start of their fighting careers. These guys want to be MMA artists because thats what they WANT to be, regardless of the money involved, they do it for the love of the sport.

you seriously hand on heart believe that

You honestly think that none of the current UFC world champions have considered going into boxing and making millions just because they love MMA??

bollocks mate, they dont make the transition because they know the level of talent is just far too dense in boxing.

I`ll reiterate my point again, would mayweather, pacquiao, mosley heck even the likes of froch, kessler, hatton entertain the idea of main eventing against someone who has a 20% defeat record??

LMAO, you make me laugh with your ignorance

With the argument ya trying to make, lets say this then, why doesnt Usain Bolt become a footballer, he could earn way more money as a pro footballer, reason he doesnt is because his heart is in Athletics. Same with MMA, they hearts are in MMA not boxing.

Got credit Hammer for his black and white approach to things.

I agree with you though entirely. It's self evidently absurd to suggest that anybody who is interested in combat sports would automatically most want to be a boxer and only pursue others through lack of talent.

Everbody in life finds their own hobbies and interests specific to them. Nobody takes up a sport or activity initially with a view of what will make the most millions at elite level, people just do what they love.

I guess Floyd would really rather be playing golf seeing as Tiger Woods is the richest athlete ever, but even more than that he probably wishes he was a software engineer who broke into the field in the late 70's and early 80's.