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Ring Girl Nicole Craner Accuses Strikeforce of Stiffing Her





Of all the ring girls that have come and gone in the employ of Strikeforce, Nicole Craner was one of the all-time greats. These days, the 29-year-old Idaho native holds cards for Shark Fights — which seems like a downgrade until you learn that Craner wasn't getting paid at her old job. As she revealed on a recent episode of TUF Crap Radio:

“I think when you’re an organization like the UFC, they value their [Octagon] girls. They treat them well, they’re part of the family, and that’s something that I wanted to do with Strikeforce...With Strikeforce I can honestly say that I don’t think Scott Coker even knew my name. I don’t think he knew any of his ring girls’ names and I’ve never really talked about this before, but it came down to not getting paid; And for me, I treated it as a job and I put a lot of effort into it and when you’re not respected or valued enough, it makes you want to go somewhere else...



So I mean you can pay Frank Shamrock 340,000 dollars to lose but you can’t pay your ring girl 400 bucks?...There were promises made that we were going to do contracts and that we were going to travel and they had me host something that they said Josh Thomson and Cung Le would be hosting, but it was something that they didn’t host or never were going to host and I never got paid for it. So those kinds of things, to me, made me just quit. I felt that if I’m going to put passion into it and I’m going to go out there and put your name out there that I should at least be respected enough and valued as part of the company."

Damn, even the eye-candy's taking shots at Strikeforce now. But when you consider that NFL cheerleaders make just $50-75 a game, you can't really expect an MMA ring girl to be compensated with anything more than complimentary booty-shorts and an occasional wink from Mauro Ranallo. Of course, this is all just an excuse to run some more photos of Nicole. You can find those after the jump...

[TBEAR]

I will "STIFF" her

[mma #1 fan]

Originally Posted by TBEAR

I will "STIFF" her

i got a lil stiff just looking at her

[beau420]

“I think when you’re an organization like the UFC, they value their [Octagon] girls.

LOL....ask Natasha Wicks and Logan Stanton.

Natasha was publicly signed to a 1 year contract starting on July 11th (UFC 100) and she was released December 18th 2009.

Oh well...I am sure he saying this shit will probably get her the publicity she wants.

400 bucks a pop for the ring girls is ridiculous...but I guess they have to be there for weighins and stuff. But some of the Strikeforce fighters make around 1000 bucks to fight.

[TheKidInside]

yeah beau, this girl just sounded mad dumb. Let her go to the UFC and be "Stiffed" for 4,000 I am sure that's going to make it better

[DanC]

Does anyone know approximately how much Arianny or Chandella get per fight in the UFC? In my opinion octagon girls do relatively easy jobs but they are still part of the overall production and deserve to be paid, I don't blame Nicole for having a pop at Strikefarce.

[Pasha K]

Excuse me and why the fuck the ring girl deserve to get 400 dollars??????
Only because she is good looking?

I mean, Obviously they should be paid for 400 dollars for just walking with a card showing a number of a round is way too much.

[KevoOnTheRadio]

I would totally break Coker's knee caps for her. I'll get that money for ya baby girl.

[HillbillyDeluxe]

Originally Posted by Pashak

Excuse me and why the fuck the ring girl deserve to get 400 dollars??????
Only because she is good looking?

I mean, Obviously they should be paid for 400 dollars for just walking with a card showing a number of a round is way too much.

Hey man, they gotta make a living too! They provide us with eye candy and me with masturbation material on later dates, so let them have that paycheck

Originally Posted by KevoOnTheRadio

I would totally break Coker's knee caps for her. I'll get that money for ya baby girl.

You and me both! Take me with you on that ride and I'll handle his security for ya. I think we'd all stiff her, just not in the "money sense"....

[YukonJordan]

Originally Posted by Pashak

Excuse me and why the fuck the ring girl deserve to get 400 dollars??????
Only because she is good looking?

I mean, Obviously they should be paid for 400 dollars for just walking with a card showing a number of a round is way too much.

Well to be fair it's not like they just rolled in off the street and started walking around. There's travel, weigh-ins and a host of other responsibilities.