Chapter 439: The Battle for a Million Dollar Appearance Fee (Part I)
A day or three later, Dana White and his entourage finally arrived at the Hero Camp and began negotiations on a new contract.
This was the first time that Bai Dana and the others came to the Hero Camp, accompanied by Xiang Yingxing, Tang Mu and others, they visited the training venues and various training facilities of the Hero Camp, and also watched a real combat competition specially prepared for him. Of course, the purpose is to hope that Dana Bai will see the strength of the fighters under the Hero Battalion, and of course, he hopes that Dana Bai can take a fancy to it and sign him to the UFC.
Therefore, this internal competition made all the fighters hold their strength. In the octagonal cage, it is even more long, and there are several blood.
Dana White was also very interested in this, but until all the fights were over, Dana White didn't see a fighter who could surprise him. In the end, Dana White said mercilessly that these fighters can only be regarded as Asian level, and there is still a big gap between them and the world's first-class.
If you join the UFC with this kind of strength, you can only hang from your tail. Finally, Dana White pointed out some specific problems. He thinks that the fighters under the Hero Battalion have good striking skills, but the ground skills are too average.
Especially in wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, they are still very low-level, the same as when Xiang Hero first entered the UFC, but their striking skills are not as strong as Xiang Hero, so that they do not have distinctive technical characteristics, and it is difficult to survive in the UFC.
Regarding Dana Bai's judgment, Xiang Yingying agrees very much. During the period when he was a hero's nutritional injury, he ran to watch these fighters train when he had nothing to do, and he also found the same problem as Dana White. However, after discussing with Mitte, there is no good solution.
In the end, Dana White proposed that he was willing to cooperate with the Hero Camp in the name of the UFC, and arrange for senior MMA coaches to train at the Hero Camp for three months every year to establish a "UFC Hero Training Camp", and fighters who perform well in the training camp can get a UFC fight night match contract.
In addition, Dana White has agreed to offer a three-game contract for the upcoming "Hero Fight" event at the Hero Camp in October.
Xiang Yingying and Tang Mu were very happy about Dana Bai's proposal, and they felt Dana Bai's kindness. Although this is just a gesture for Dana White, it is a great opportunity for the hero battalion.
Being able to become a partner of UFC in China is a great help in terms of popularity and influence. I believe that as soon as this news is announced, there will definitely be a lot of outstanding fighters to join the hero camp, and it will make the fighters who sign up for the "Hero Fight" competition even stronger, after all, there are UFC three-fight contracts waiting for them.
After watching the internal confrontation of the hero camp, Dana Bai and the others came to the conference room accompanied by Xiang Yingying, Tang Mu and Mike.
After seeing everyone sit down, Xiang Yingying spoke first: "White, what about you bet on losing my things?" Xiang Yingying stretched out his hand after speaking, and made a begging gesture.
Bai Dana was stunned for a moment, and asked very suspiciously, "Bet?" When did I bet with you? ”
"Yes White, you promised me that if I won the middleweight title, you would give Mike a bottle of 1973 wine from Château Mouton. Don't say you forgot! Xiang Yingying glared at Bai Dana dissatisfiedly.
"Oh! So you said this! Speaking of this, Bai Dana looked at Xiang Yingying strangely and continued: "How can your memory be good, I thought you had forgotten it a long time ago!" As a result, you even remember 1973. ”
After Dana White finished speaking, he took out a bottle of 1973 red wine from Château Mouton from Château Mouton and handed it to Mike: "Mr. Mike, this is the red wine I promised you. ”
If Xiang Hero didn't mention it, Mike didn't ring it either. Naojian took the bottle and admired it carefully before saying, "It's really a good bottle of red wine, very collectible." ”
Seeing that Mike was happy, Xiang Yingying also laughed and said to Dana Bai: "Let's start, shall we?" I want us to take a look at the contract you have prepared! ”
Dana Bai saw that Xiang Yingying was happy, so he motioned to Dave Schole, vice president of public relations of UFC, to take out three identical contract letters and handed them to Xiang Yingying and the other three.
After Xiang Yingying and the others read it, they glanced at each other, and according to the pre-discussed agreement, Tang Mu said: "It is still a matter of appearance fee and PPV commission, which is obviously lower than our expectations." After all, the hero has already won the middleweight championship, and he should get the appearance fee of the UFC's top fighting star, and your $600,000 appearance fee is obviously too low. ”
UFC Vice President Rich Franklin frowned slightly when he heard this, although the appearance fee of $600,000 was not their bottom line, but from Tang Mu's tone, he felt that Xiang Hero's appetite this time was not ordinary. But he still tried to persuade: "Xiang! We're giving you an appearance fee that's higher than most fighters in the UFC and equal to Ariste O'Vorim's. You must know that in the middleweight division, even the champion can only get about half of you. ”
"But now I'm the champion!" Xiang Yingying said suddenly.
"Yes, the hero is also a champion now, and the market behind him is unmatched by any champion. So, hopefully, you'll be able to give the Echo Hero an appearance fee of the current market value. Mike said.
Dana Bai smiled when he heard this, and asked directly, "Then how much do you think the appearance fee is reasonable?" ”
Tang Mu saw Dana Bai say this, so he said with a smile: "The appearance fee of 1 million US dollars, the winning prize is also 100,000 US dollars, and the sponsorship fee of Reebok does not matter, just according to the 50,000 US dollars agreed in your contract." If this condition is met, we can sign a 6-match agreement according to your requirements. ”
"It can't be!" UFC Vice President Rich Franklin said subconsciously. Rich Franklin said this, looked at Dana White, and found that Dana White was slowly drinking mineral water, and did not say anything, so he continued: "Do you know how many fighters in the UFC can take more than $1 million in appearance fees? ”
They really didn't call the results of this hero and Tang Mu, and they proposed that this appearance fee was mainly determined by referring to the appearance fee of heavyweight fighter "DC" Daniel Cormier.
Rich Franklin saw that they were silent and continued: "Among the active UFC fighters, only Connor McGregor, Brock Laner, Ronda Rossi, Nick Diaz and Daniel Cormier have appeared in fees of more than $1 million. And some of them don't get a share of the PPV points. Therefore, the appearance fee and PPV points we give are already very sincere. ”