{"id":122814,"date":"2014-12-15T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=122814"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:04:29","slug":"retiring-jamie-varner-focused-creating-fighters-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/retiring-jamie-varner-focused-creating-fighters-union\/","title":{"rendered":"After retiring, Jamie Varner focused on creating fighters union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/retiring-jamie-varner-focused-creating-fighters-union\/jamie-varner-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122589\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jamie-Varner.png\" alt=\"Jamie Varner\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jamie-Varner.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jamie-Varner-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jamie-Varner-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend at UFC on FOX 13, Jamie Varner retired after an unusual knockout.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, with his career behind him, Varner says he&#8217;s focused on creating a fighters union for the current, and next generation of fighters.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI would love to start some type of union for fighters.   mean, the sport is growing, and we\u2019re getting all these big-time endorsement deals, and a lot of us \u2013 we\u2019re just fighters. We don\u2019t think about the next step.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we implemented some sort of union or something like that, we could eventually \u2013 fighters \u2013 this could be a real career. You see so many pro fighters now, and I want to help the future of fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s something that needs to happen.  We are a mainstream, major sport now, and if you look at all the mainstream, major sports, they all have unions, and they have league minimums and some sort of retirement (plan) and all that kind of stuff. I think that\u2019s something that needs to happen for fighters because this is one of those careers that when it\u2019s over, a lot of these guys don\u2019t have something else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/12\/after-winning-most-prestigious-belt-retired-jamie-varner-focuses-on-fighters-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on a fighters union? 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