{"id":210852,"date":"2016-11-20T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=210852"},"modified":"2016-11-20T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:34:39","slug":"neil-seery-says-wont-receive-reebok-pay-cancelled-ian-mccall-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/reebok\/neil-seery-says-wont-receive-reebok-pay-cancelled-ian-mccall-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Seery says he won’t receive Reebok pay for cancelled Ian McCall fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC’s latest trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland<\/a> has now come and gone, and it was a very exciting card<\/a>. Unfortunately, we lost one of the card’s most anticipated fights on the eve of battle, as fan favorite flyweight Ian McCall was forced out of a planned bout with Ireland’s Neil “2 Tap” Seery with an illness<\/a>. The illness, which began before McCall undertook his weight cut, was severe enough to hospitalize him.<\/p>\n

Despite the last minute cancellation of his fight \u00a0\u2013 which was intended to be\u00a0his retirement bout \u2013 Seery was all class, and wished McCall a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilSeeryMMA\/status\/799585141555425280<\/p>\n

Yet while Seery was able to reconcile the cancellation of his retirement fight, he’s having a hard time swallowing Reebok’s refusal to pay him, despite the fact that he showed up and made weight for the fight.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilSeeryMMA\/status\/800357032456921089<\/p>\n

The payment that fighters receive under the UFC’s outfitting deal with Reebok<\/a> is based on the number of fights they’ve had in the UFC, and in the Zuffa-owned eras of WEC and Strikeforce. Having fought 6 times in the UFC’s Octagon, Seery falls into the second-lowest Reebok payment tier, which pays fighters with 6 to 10 fights in the aforementioned promotions $5,000 every time they compete.<\/p>\n

As Ariel Helwani recently explained on Twitter, however, Reebok does not decide when fighters do and do not get paid in situations like these. That choice belongs to the UFC.<\/p>\n

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A Reebok rep just called @NeilSeeryMMA<\/a>'s coach @bjjnorthside<\/a>, I'm told, to explain Reebok doesn't decide who gets paid & how much. All UFC.<\/p>\n

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) November 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n