Dana says if you want to keep your UFC job, fight like it.

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When the news broke on Feb. 20 that the UFC had cut 16 fighters including Top 10 ranked welterweight Jon Fitch, many were shocked. When UFC president Dana White announced that the Las Vegas-based fight promotion has 100 fighters too many still on its roster, fighters began to evaluate their status and wonder if they were going to be next.

White made it clear following UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche what will keep your position with the company on solid ground: fighting like your job is on the line.

“The cut thing, when I told you there were over a hundred (fighters on the roster that need to be cut), that’s an absolute fact. There’s going to be a night when we put on a card, there’s going to be 15 guys we cut, and then there’s going to be a night where we put on a card that we don’t cut any of the losers,” said White during the UFC 157 post-fight press conference.

Matt Grice has gone 1-2 in his latest stint in the UFC, but White cited his UFC 157 losing performance against Dennis Bermudez as an example of how to keep your job.

“That’s one of those fights that there’s no loser. There is no loser in that fight. When you turn on your TV set and you put down your money, or you buy a ticket, that’s what you expect to show up and see. As a fight fan, those are the fights you want to watch, and those are the kinds of fights were guys won’t get cut. It’s pretty easy, pretty simple,” said White.

When Strikeforce closed its doors following its Jan. 12 event, most of the roster was folded over into the UFC. White has been pleased with the former Strikeforce fighters’ performances in the Octagon and feels their approach could raise the bar for every fighter in the UFC who feels they’re on the bubble of being cut.

“Strikeforce had hungry fighters. These (expletive) guys are hungry. Most of them hadn’t fought in a year. They didn’t know what was going on with their careers, couldn’t pay their bills, all this (expletive). They’re hungry,” said White. “The Strikeforce guys are going to raise the bar on these other guys.”

White specifically is talking about guys like Bobby Green, Robbie Lawler, Tyron Woodley, among others.

Exciting performances isn’t everything. Fighters still have to produce wins. Winning is always the best way to maintain job security.

“I don’t think we’d ever do that, start cutting guys after wins,” said the UFC president. “We might want to, but we wouldn’t.”

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“I don’t think we’d ever do that, start cutting guys after wins,” said the UFC president. “We might want to, but we wouldn’t.”

Yeah it would be pretty tough to justify cutting a guy after a win, especially if he beat the #1 contender or something like that.

Maybe if a guy is good at his job but gives me frequent headaches because he thinks he's worth more than he really is and he doesn't resonate with customers too well, then I can see letting him go. I've fired people like that before.

I agree with Dana.
Ultimately, you are in the entertainment business.
These are individuals under contract, and if you are not going to make people want to watch the sport, then you can either be cut or work for less money and spend your career on the un-aired undercards (even if you are a winner).

This is very different than other pro sports since it is an individual sport with individual contracts. Other than boxing, I don't know that any other pro sports are structured this way.

Winning and being exciting is the key.

Winning will keep you your job.

Being exciting will keep you your job. (for a while)

Losing and boring is the ticket to Bellator.

Cept if you are Uriah... then if you are fairly interesting but can't win and Dana likes you he'll feed you a win or two so you can stay in the game.

Its Joe Silva you need to get friendly with to be fed wins, not Dana

HEY ITS CABLE ... WELCOME BACK MAN (sry Dramora) Glad to see you back on board!

You know who isn't getting cut? Mark Hunt

Yeah... none of those last 4 fighters from last night are getting cut anytime soon.
Story is getting old.... boring as fuck $60 card followed by a kick ass exciting free card.

Krieger wrote:

HEY ITS CABLE ... WELCOME BACK MAN (sry Dramora) Glad to see you back on board!

Thanks

i agree about the exciting card yesterday. i havent felt this happy about the fights afterwords in a very fucking long time. especially, because pride fighters and in general, the style of fighting prevailed yesterday. everybody went for it, even if they are "blanket" fighters like okami.
gomi got robed!
im still smiling, remembering hunts and silvas ko's

So Hunt is like 4-0 now being the underdog in every fight?
What the hell is next for him? He's got to get a top 4-5 guy now, right?
Werdum, Nelson, or even Dos Santos??

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So Hunt is like 4-0 now being the underdog in every fight?
What the hell is next for him? He's got to get a top 4-5 guy now, right?
Werdum, Nelson, or even Dos Santos??

JDS and hunt would be epic!!!!!

I would love to see Hunt vs JDS, that would be amazing! I would also like to see Hunt vs Mir or even Big Nog