{"id":183396,"date":"2016-01-22T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=183396"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:16:40","slug":"mma-legend-bas-rutten-explains-conor-mcgregor-first-fighter-change-pay-scale-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/mma-legend-bas-rutten-explains-conor-mcgregor-first-fighter-change-pay-scale-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA legend Bas Rutten explains why Conor McGregor is the first fighter that could change the pay scale with the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am not a company man. I am the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those are <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/conor-mcgregor-im-not-a-company-man-i-am-the-company1\/\">famous words<\/a> from the UFC featherweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/conor-mcgregor-responds-to-lebron-james-using-him-as-motivation\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the biggest stars in the UFC, there has been talk that McGregor would like to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/randy-couture-does-not-think-conor-mcgregor-can-become-his-own-promotion-entity-with-the-ufc\/\">co-promoter<\/a> along with the organization. MMA legend Bas Rutten spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XlfvxqtPuLc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a> recently and expanded on how McGregor may start being able to do that and change the game (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedmartialarts.com\/news\/455935\/Bas-Conor-McGregor-holds-all-the-cards-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcribed by Mixed Martial Arts<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI do believe that he holds all the cards now,&#8221; said Bas. &#8220;He\u2019s so\u2026everybody wants to see him. Whether you want to see him win or lose, it doesn\u2019t matter, you want to see him. And I don\u2019t know, what were the pay-per-view buys in the last show? I never got that. Did you guys get the numbers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Submission Radio explained that Dave Meltzer estimated between 1.1-1.2 million on McGregor&#8217;s last PPV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see, so we\u2019re talking about like four, five hundred-thousand more pay-per-view buys than a normal show will have &#8211; lately then, right?&#8221; said Rutten. &#8220;Because in the early days we had shows [which drew] 1.3, 1.6 actually, and 1.1. I think those are the records &#8211; but I think McGregor, if he fights against Rafael Dos Anjos, the way he promotes it, that could be a 1.5, 1.6, it could break the records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And why not tell, as a fighter, say \u2018okay normally you get like four bucks or three seventy-five per pay-per-view buy\u2019 &#8211; I don\u2019t know what the contract says \u2013 \u2018but he can say okay, what about once we go past 1.2 million, everything after that I just want half\u2019. You know? And they\u2019re going to be stupid to say no. Because if they say no, they\u2019re going to miss out on all that money. If they say yes, it\u2019s going to great for them and it\u2019s going to be great for McGregor, and that will open barriers also for bigger paydays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then now also everybody has the blueprint of McGregor. I heard Diaz saying &#8211; Nate &#8211; he said \u2018yeah we kind of gave him the blueprint, the way he presents himself\u2019. That\u2019s absolutely not true. He doesn\u2019t use any profanity, he\u2019s very smart in everything that he\u2019s saying, and the way he\u2019s attacking, he\u2019s doing it completely different and he\u2019s doing it very smart. And I think more fighters should start taking a look at that and say \u2018hey, wait a minute, yes it\u2019s a fight and I understand that, but if you wanna make more money, well you\u2019re going to have to tone it up a little bit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am not a company man. 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