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07-31-2008, 07:53 PM
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|  Josh Barnett will not Accept a pay cut
Josh Barnett will not Accept a pay*cut - Bloody Elbow Quote:
Dave Meltzer reported that Tom Attencio will allegedly ask fighters to take a 50% pay cut to work the Las Vegas show in October. Zach Arnold interviewed Josh Barnett, and reports on his reply here:
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Barnett replied by saying that he was not going to take a pay cut to fight.
In addition, when asked about whether or not he’ll fight Fedor, Mr. Barnett said that it’s not up to him as far as whether or not the fight gets booked. He wants to fight Fedor, but can’t worry about the politics surrounding why the fight hasn’t been booked.
| I think everyone knew those salaries were unsustainable. While I'm very excited for the second Affliction show, I am tempering my excitement because Fedor's name has been removed from the Thomas and Mack Center's Affliction page, and we still don't really know if he's been signed to anything. I highly doubt Fedor's team will accept a pay cut.
Note: Fedor's name was on that page at one time, and now it's gone. That absolutely does not mean he is off the show, it's just something that was pointed out to me.
Update: Here is Dave's report on the cut. It sounds like they will only be asking certain guys to take cuts:
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The promotion has talked with some fighters about doing the 10/11 show for 50% of what they made on the first show (cutting down the payroll) but in return they would give those fighters easy opponents.
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07-31-2008, 07:56 PM
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I basically saw this coming, and others probably did too. But Atencio foreshadowed it...I'm trying to remember the exact quote, but he said something like "we'll get the next card together and go from there"....it escapes me now but the context in which he said it seemed to imply he was going to greatly cut fighters' pay after the first blockbuster card.
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07-31-2008, 08:00 PM
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He said basically said that they paid the fighters so much as to "make a splash" so people would know they were legit. Sort of a bait and switch.
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07-31-2008, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bullock  He said basically said that they paid the fighters so much as to "make a splash" so people would know they were legit. Sort of a bait and switch. | Yep, that's pretty much the impression that I got out of the interview I'm referring to. Wish I could find the damn thing or remember exactly where I saw/read/heard it.
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07-31-2008, 08:17 PM
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That's bullshit. "We'll give you an opponent that will give you half the trouble if we can pay you half the amount."
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07-31-2008, 08:31 PM
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Thats just gonna make for a crappy show. I for one don't want to watch top tier fighters on the same card fight cans when they should be fighting each other. 
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07-31-2008, 08:45 PM
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Ahh, and so it begins. I guess it is not just the UFC that has fighters that want more money. Imagine that. People in general want to make more money.
Mind blowing....
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07-31-2008, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by markzabin Thats just gonna make for a crappy show. I for one don't want to watch top tier fighters on the same card fight cans when they should be fighting each other. | Travis Fulton's phone has been ringing nonstop lately.
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07-31-2008, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Frag x 3 That's bullshit. "We'll give you an opponent that will give you half the trouble if we can pay you half the amount." | We will pay you half but we will feed you a can. Yeah and people bitch about the UFC. Thye just trhew a bunch of money out to make sure they got all the top free agents. Then they were like haha bitches we got you! just kidding about all that money we were going to pay you. Tim silvia is not even worth 1/4th of what they paid him. That was beyond rediculas. Thye just used him for his name and the fact that he was a UFC champion.
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Originally Posted by jlruthven84 Travis Fulton's phone has been ringing nonstop lately. | I was thinking Bo Cantrell.
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