Obviously I can’t wear Xbox in the octagon anymore, so there’s nothing I can do about that. We’ve been talking to Xbox and Microsoft and all that stuff. We hope they keep me on outside. Whether they want me to go out and do promotion of games and stuff – for my last fight for Call of Duty I went down to L.A. and did a viewing party, went to San Francisco to work on the games – so I’m hoping I can do a lot more of that stuff outside the octagon where they have to keep me.
A guy like Nick Diaz, for example, comes out with all his Metal Mulisha, all his sponsorships. Let’s say from those sponsorships he makes like $80,000 to go in the octagon. That’s a nice payday just for wearing sponsorships.
Lets say the UFC says, ‘Hey man, you’ve got wear Reebok tomorrow.’ And he says, ‘OK, that sounds good. Here are all my pay stubs and my contracts for my last fight. They’re paying me $80,000, so what’s Reebok going to pay me?’ They say, ‘You’re ranked second in the world, so we’re going to pay you $2,000 to wear Reebok.’ For me, I think that’s not necessarily fair because there’s basically $78,000 that’s unaccounted for. If UFC’s going to compensate me with the same amount, that’s
fantastic. If not, that’s a big boo-boo.
I think it’s a good thing to where people don’t have to run out and struggle to find sponsorships and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, I just don’t want people to be stripped of what they can bring in. That’s my biggest thing about it. If a person is getting paid $80,000 for something and they’re told they can’t wear it anymore and they’re losing that money, then something needs to happen about that.