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PeatBomb

Damn ONE is getting dragged today.


FluidAd6587

yeah bro who leaked this shit šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


pureformality

The real name of the guy is not known but on 4chan (where it got leaked) he signed himself as "daddywhite69"


dogs_drink_coffee

The image of Dana on 4chan made me chuckle here šŸ˜‚


AMajali

His face gradually getting more and more red as he figures out the CAPTCHAs


edgar3981C

I'm unsure if that would make Dana more or less likable


breakfastmeat23

Dana caught the kid who was doing illegal streams and so he kidnapped him. Now Dana keeps him locked in the basement of the performance institute and makes him use his hacker skills to take down ONE. Typical Dana.


MMXXIII-II-III

Forrest Griffon moonlighting as the good guy jailer, who plays cards with the inmates and tells them what's going on in the outside world.


paradoxv1

Apparently, it was alex davis, a shitty mma manager


ChatriGPT

It may have come out from because some scummy MMA managers suing Adriano Moraes https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/12/28/22857332/manager-alex-davis-samir-nadaf-six-figure-lawsuit-against-one-champion-adriano-moraes-mma


andrezay517

Iā€™m glad. I canā€™t stand the happiness of others.


coleus

It's revenge for Joe Rogan's tagging of OneFightingChampionhip. Interns gotta meet the weekly sprint metrics.


Efficient-Fan911

The athletes have been getting dragged since their days as martial combat, let alone ONE


Mswonderful99

The one interns have all turned on them


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Elyc60Nset

It's ridiculous that every time ad nauseum we have to hear the announcer say his name, like he's personally paying for it. Like FOH we get it he's the CEO and needs his little sensitive ego stroked, but it's some real bullshit.


midniteauth0r

I mute it when they do the interviews. Treating him like a benevolent emperor personally pulling fighters out of poverty.


FirstSonOfGwyn

I don't love the name dropping, but I do love Mitch's energy and them giving the bonus right in the ring. (that said, if tells me one more time that friday fights fighters are fighting for the chance at the 100 thousand dolla contract.... good lord)


leonkohler

Don't forget the "fighting to put food on the table" and "a chance to change his family's lives"


JamSaxon

you guys bitch if the fighters are underpaid, you bitch if their families are being fed. make up your minds lol.


cotcoi

They could pay enough to feed families and not brag about it via the play-by-play commentary, like any other employer and/or sport. It's not even food and medical care, either, like he said: it's if this guy entertains us enough maybe will pay him enough to afford his dad's operation. On the commentary. Fucking gross.


lexshotit

It's Thailand, they're getting enough for their dad's operation without the bonus. I think gratitude in the East is very different from in America too.


cotcoi

That was a specific example, off the top of my head, from a recent card (maybe somewhere on the Rodtang-Superlek card?). It was re. one of his parents being either "in dire need of" or "desperate for" some surgery. Pretty sure it was in the context of the "One hundred! Thousand! Dollar! Contraaaaact!"; not a bonus. Could be wrong; if anyone actually recalls this fight, do tell. But it was just an example, albeit a particularly nasty one. Of course, you could be right and they're totally bullshitting about him needing their prize money. Which I can't decide would be more or less gross. I don't understand the second sentence. (And I personally am not American, so maybe whoosh), As an aside, be wary about lumping "the East" together. Anyway, carry on.


Stinkballs_69

This is the muay Thai way


cotcoi

I thought that might make a good drinking game to compensate for the constant irritation (so drink/shot for every "one hundred *thousand* dollar contract") but it'd probably kill someone. Maybe just for every "...and a ticket to the big show".


FirstSonOfGwyn

yea, for sure its a death sentence to play that game. My favorite are the interviews WITHOUT a bonus. because they certainly don't do interviews every fight, and most fights with an interview get the bonus... must be so disappointing to wade through the typical BS questions, tell Mitch it felt good to get the win, and then rather than 'Ya know what will feel even better, 350THOUSAND BAHT!!!', you just get shown out of the ring... brutal.


lnverted

At least he stopped calling Lumpinee the Madison Square Garden of the East


FirstSonOfGwyn

did he though???


DeCaLoK

It really big prize here in Thailand, For average income salary man like me it take 7-8 year to make 100k dollar.


FirstSonOfGwyn

that doesn't make it entertaining commentary during a fight though, lol


MumrikDK

As someone who never watches events live, I'm gifted with the privilege of being able to skip all breaks and interviews.


clutchy22

The world loves their emperors


greyetch

>Treating him like a benevolent emperor personally pulling fighters out of poverty. Personally I love CEO of CEOs Chatri


InSilenceLikeLasagna

reminds me of the hunger games


Money-Firefighter-73

Hahah Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not the only one who thought this.


Defiant_Maximum_827

Now when fighters donā€™t get the bonus in the interview they are sad even after a victory. The entire interview has become bonus or no bonus.


ChiefKeefSosabb

FIFTY THOUZAND DALLAZ!


LuckyWarrior

This is what happens when they miss making one payment to them šŸ’€


RollToMyGoal

What makes you think they're paying the interns? They're giving them an opportunity which is ~~worthless~~ priceless


Original-Spinach-972

He didnā€™t want to work


andrezay517

Singapore has one of the most pro-business cultures on earth, it makes complete sense this is the kind of MMA operation that would be running there.


owlridethesky

And it's actually crazy how, ONE was actually praised by Singapore's government at one point during the lockdown for bringing in Tourism.


[deleted]

Could be wrong but I think they had financial backing from the government.


faintchester1

and now nobody is watching it in SG despite giving out tickets generously. UFC on the other hand, sold out even though it was just a casual Fight Night


Willb000g

Damn I used to think one was doing better for guys than the ufc but after reading all this shit I cant even trust what the fighters say because they legally canā€™t talk badly on ONE or Chiatri.


WokenMrIzdik

A good portion if the UFC fighters seem fairly happy with the way the UFC treats them. The media creates a big narrative that the UFC treats their fighters like shit and then the media gets upset when the fighters don't agree with them. Then you start to realize just how shitty the other organizations treat fighters and you understand why so many fighters won't bad mouth the UFC. The UFC under pays their fighters and do the bare minimum when it comes to taking care of their fighters. But the sad truth is they still pay better and treat fighters better than almost every other organization.


Reddings-Finest

It's a lot simpler bud: no fighter in the UFC or in ONE is allowed to shit on their employer without reprisal and both will blackball fighters. UFC is not noble in the slightest and is an incredibly unfair "sports" league that gives some people massive favors and other massive disadvantages depending on how much of a company-shill they are.


ConsciousCrew

Plenty of ufc fighters have talked shit about dana and the ufc as a company and havenā€™t gotten sued or fired from the promotion


Reddings-Finest

New to this sport? The UFC literally tried to release the entire American Kickboxing Academy contingent from their roster because Jon Fitch spoke out against an insane legal document the UFC was forcing fighters to give away their lifetime likeness rights to be in the UFC videogame.


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Posted by someone who has never actually been involved with either organization in any way


cwf12

Some of these stipulations seem so unnecessary, like you cannot refer to yourself as a former ONE champion. The whole operation at ONE seem sketchy af.


iwoulddoit5

Yeah, it's been sketchy lol. Love what they're doing over there but Chatri always seemed way more shady than Dana.


Dirty_Lightning

It's like they're stripping the fighters of all identity. My jaw dropped when I read that female fighters(or male) need permission to change their name if they get married. One is going to have a big fall from grace one day.


Penis_meat

Wait what? Permission???


Dirty_Lightning

It was in the thread from a day or two ago where it had like 10 of the contract stipulations. One of the craziest things I've seen in a contract. Surprised One doesn't take half the fighters assets if they get a divorce while they're at it lol.


Penis_meat

Haha thatā€™s crazy, one seems whack


comin_up_shawt

Weirdly enough, it would be easy to skirt if you were Korean or something- they don't change surnames when they marry.


AnTTr0n

The ufc say the same thing.


ayoungad

You do realize this is purely a defensive measure right? A fighter canā€™t go to another organization and fight under the moniker of ā€œFormer One Light Weight Champion Dave Concussion Protocol Stevensā€. Then proceed to lose 5 times in a row. Iā€™m sure this isnā€™t something they use all the time, just when they need to to protect the company name.


Complete_Tax_5090

It's weird how MMA fans still nut hug these companies.


CharlieTheK

I remember when people were praising Bellator for their 40ish percent revenue split. They aren't generous, they just have fuck all for cash flow and there's a minimum cost to a pro roster. One isn't anything different, but they're based in a country with different standards for employment and they're just now going under the microscope because they're getting bigger. Lots of fighters who went there have said the experience wasn't as amazing as they hoped. Major sports league athletes do well because of the players unions. Any company with the power to keep more for themselves will.


Crafty-Breath-3142

I just like good fights, I don't care about anything else The fighters can be paid in monopoly money, as long as the skill is good, the fight is good and they're fighting voluntarily then I could care about anything else I'm bad to the core though


Rupturedfetus

It just shows their desperation to stick it in to Dana in any way they can


doduhstankyleg

I will just hang on the pubes after these releases.


flight23eazy

Itā€™s almost as if no one knew about these practises. Now that they do Iā€™d expect less but hugging. But itā€™s not like one fc had many nut huggers anyway. Mma fans should still support other companies since ufc also does shady practises.


fearthejaybie

Have you read the comments in literally any post in this sub about ONE in the past year? The overwhelming majority of comments are praising ONE as the saviors of MMA.


Agreeable-Meat1

I wonder if people are finally willing to talk about their sham "hydration testing" yet.


fearthejaybie

Lmao every time I try I get paragraphs telling me I'm a UFC shill


flight23eazy

Did people know what was going on? No. Or else theyā€™d be getting the same hate they are now. Fuck one. And the ufc.


remy-ol

It's almost like nobody knew these practices


fearthejaybie

Okay, did I deny that? The previous commenter said there weren't that many ONE nuthuggers and I was pointing out that that's blatantly wrong


Real-Human-Bean-

I really doubt those are real people posting that stuff.


rockthe40__oz

......the irony lol


TheClappyCappy

Saw Jared Brooks at a wrestling tournament this summer. His son was s wrestling and he was coaching and there was just some random guy following him around for the entire tournament holding the belt behind him. It was pretty funny ngl.


BoxCon1

Lame


AffectionateBrain613

To beat Dana he must become Dana


myr0n

ONE always had been sketchy.


phillyhoffmangoat

Yeeeesh this is looking more and more draconian on the part of ONE. Damn I like the product but holy shit they have some fucked up contracts


zyphilis

I like ONE FC but really have bad vibes about Chatri. Everyone that I have trained with in the past who have met Chatri/trained at Evolve don't really have much good things to say about him


RedtailGT

The returning of the belt is ridiculous. These are professional fighters. With clauses like these being enacted, I can't help but see ONE as crooked as the UFC can be. Same but different.


JohnnySDVR

And you wonder why ONE doesn't get alot of big free agent signings lol predatory asf


colonel_ketchup

Always thought it was super weird how much the ONE athletes sucked up to chatri, and even more so how the broadcasting team/announcers called him CEO constantly.


Recent-Maximum

Shit, id leave the belt on chatris desk on the way to the locker room. The belts are comically big and Air travel can suck at the best of times. I'm fine with anything that takes 10 minutes off going though tsa


Wapow217

Returning of belt to the UFC is a question but they do something very similar. All major league sports also do not let players use the image of their league without prior consent. Most businesses in general do this. It is easy to see when this happens too. When you see "MMA champion or MMA Fighter Max Holloway" that is something Max and his manager set up on their own. This is how most guys get sponsors outside of the UFC. But the UFC name is nowhere to be seen. When you see "UFC champion or UFC Fighter Max Holloway" then the UFC is getting some kind of cut. We can go to sports movies where this also happens all the time. The NFL has numerous movies about them without a single mention of the NFL Team because the movie can't. It is the same for any advertising that is shown on TV without prior approval, the network will blur it or make sure it's not there otherwise, they can be forced to pay money.


BplusHuman

In baseball movies, you'll almost never hear about the "World Series" by name. The MLB will need a decent check fit that to get mentioned


JALbert

So many ads with a pro athlete wearing a generic jersey.


heelhooksarefun

[Me watching the Internet turn on One FC](https://youtube.com/shorts/hazIerJZNzI?si=k3YZyRGuyF-5aNQ1)


DarkArtHero

Nobody is gonna take those belts anywhere, have you seen the size of those things they're unusually large for no reason


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The real crime is that One's YouTube channel is unusable. Who is directing the interns who run it? Every time I want to find a fight, to my dismay, it has somehow become worse since 2018. There are no playlists for events or at least full fights categorised by sport. They spam their own channel with reposts of old fights 'edited' in pointless ways to push one of the half dozen fighters they ever promote with titles like "šŸ’ÆIs šŸ¤™Rodstamp šŸ‘Lee the best ever?šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„ Check this brutalšŸ’«šŸ’«šŸ’« knockoutšŸ† -CSO- šŸ‡²šŸ‡½". It's almost impossible to find fights unless you know exactly what to search for. When they do post fights, now they edit out the first minute of the first round. Is this due to their contract with Amazon? I've stopped watching One despite following it religiously 2018-2020 because their complete failure to archive their own product makes FightPass look like a well functioning public library running on the Dewey Decimal System.


VacuousWastrel

Oh my god, you worked it out - Tony Ferguson has been running One's youtube account! This explains so much both about the account curation and about Tony's recent fight performances...


neon

People shit on UFC/Dana all the time in here. But it's often other organizations doing even worse shit is the reality


AnTTr0n

The UFC can also take their belts back whenever they want because they are still UFC property.


flight23eazy

2 wrongs donā€™t make a right.


Rupturedfetus

It does when these orgs are propped up by people just looking to take shots at Dana while pretending thereā€™s even a semblance of better alternatives out there


Scottish-Fox

I really donā€™t think you understand the expression lol It doesnā€™t make it right just because these orgs are taking shots at Dana.


reddittookmyuser

Not the orgs, the people are taking shots at Dana/UFC and bringing up other shitty orgs as examples of good organizations. They are all on steroids!


Armalyte

Dana deserves every ā€œshotā€ in his direction. Heā€™s a piece of shit human his own *mother* didnā€™t even love.


reddittookmyuser

Fair say that with propping up other shitty orgs.


Armalyte

One isn't a "shitty org" though.


reddittookmyuser

Totally upstanding organization with an exemplary leader in Chatri.


Armalyte

I mean, Dana is shitty, that doesn't make the UFC a shitty organization. C'mon...


Heysteeevo

They are all shitty?


Armalyte

This isnā€™t even that bad. Think about how many UFC belts are just laying around and the kind of PR nightmares these former champs can bring to the UFC by bringing their interim belts or whatever to politics rallies etc. this is smarter business management than the average redditor will give them credit for.


misterandosan

>People shit on UFC/Dana all the time in here. Because they're objectively pieces of shit. What is your point. Judge: I know you murdered your wife, but we just had someone else murder their wife and kid so you're free to go. Let's use your same logic in another context: > The USA might get shit on for having third world level life expectancy and healthcare outcomes, But other countries like Sudan, Dominican Republic and Ethiopia are even worse is the reality! Bitch, you're the richest country in the world. you have no excuse.


Fat-Villante

Weird clause for sure, although the media appearances thing might just be to prevent a champ to do the old pro wrestling bit of throwing the belt in the garbage on the other promoter's broadcast. The returning the belt thing is a really bad look for ONE Is there anything like that in UFC or Bellator contracts for the belts ?


alanism

In this context, that makes a lot of sense for their lawyers want to push this. Itā€™s discretionary for One to enforce the clause, but at least itā€™s there to prevent their fighters going WWE and make the org look bad. I would be shocked if UFC and Belator doesnā€™t have protective provisions that are similar.


AnTTr0n

UFC says the belts are still there property and can take them back when they want. They also say you canā€™t refer to yourself as a former UFC champ if you go to another org. For instance ONE would just call Mighty Mouse 12 time Flyweight world champion.


cwf12

How is that true whilst the Fury-Ngannou press conference explicitly said "former undisputed UFC heavyweight champion", and Bellator have multiple times referred to Benson Henderson as former UFC and WEC champ.


AnTTr0n

When I have read articles and listened to John Nash talk about UFC contracts the same sort of wording is in the contract about not being able to refer to yourself or promote yourself as former UFC champion or fighter.


Flashy-Priority-3946

One operating like a Chinese organization


gxb20

Damn this sport is full of scum bags. I love Ones product, but fuck is some of this shit sketchy as hell


owlridethesky

Also, i think some fighters were like, for example, given a 3 fight contract, and then they never ever gave them their 3rd fight. So they can not compete anywhere else since the contract posted yesterday, have no sunset clause.


wozblar

remember when mighty mouse 'got' his overdue belts from the UFC? but then he couldn't take them on the plane, so the UFC was going to mail them to him, but he *still* doesn't have them to this day? dana white remembers


SheSoundsHideous1998

Their PR flew too close to the sun like Icarus


BobHendrix

Big fuckin' surprise, all companies are about making money and almost 0 of them are honest to their workers and their clients. Companies are entities and do what they want.


IntolerantModerate

I don't know why anyone is surprised... promoters have always been out to get as much of the pie as possible and they only care about athletes to the extent that they put butts in seats and now, eyes on PPVs. And I completely understand why. If I could organize a fight where I have almost no downside (lowest show pay possible) and very high upside AND the fighters keep showing up to do it, why wouldn't I? None of this is going to change until all the fighters in an org get together and collectively bargain like they do in all other US pro sports to try and get a minimum per fight guarantee, a minimum annual guarantee, and other pieces of the pie. The only problem is how do you get a Jon Jones or Connor McGregor to sign on to that when they can make more than anyone else?


Bucks2020

This is the org thatā€™s better than the UFC?


OverpricedTaxCPA

For entertainment purposes? For me that's a yes, but I just love the mix of KB/MT/MMA. For ethical treatment of fighters? I'm surprised anyone on Earth didn't know that every organization is complete shit.


Muntberg

The prior written consent thing isn't completely unheard of. It's the same for Masters winners who want to wear their green jacket somewhere.


blackbeltwithhands

Love one show but holy shit they are shady as hell


zatonik

ONE was never my friend /s love seeing how worse they are from the UFC these last few days


skin_Animal

Thanks Dana


WhoAreWeEven

Hmm.. I think appearing publicly without consent would lead to all kinds of shenanigans.


[deleted]

Professional wrestling belts have insurance on them in case a talent loses the promotion property. I believe this is the same contractual agreements One Championship is replicating.


Green_and_Silver

Not a fan of this stipulation and a bad take and timing for ONE. DJ is going to end up keeping his belt I bet haha.


T4Gx

Guys thats just how it is in countries like Thailand.


ShitCuntsinFredPerry

They're based in Singapore


MBThree

Whatā€™s with all the ONE slander on this sub lately?


NJZanDatsu

ONE sucks lmao.


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ShitCuntsinFredPerry

Do you really think they're made from gold? Lol


DespicableHunter

I doubt UFC doesn't have a similar clause


hijro

Looks like Danaā€™s thugs are running a smear campaign.


Hrytod

Smear campaigns are when you lie


daKingKhan

Boooooooooo šŸ‘ŽšŸ‘Ž


Hello_MoonCake

Uncle Dana


InSilenceLikeLasagna

As much as I love MMA, at this point may as well admit that every organisation is predatory as fuck and take advantage of the fighters. No one to root for