In a sport where size and strength matter, a fighter would do anything to give himself/herself this advantage. This means you have the ability to inflict more damage to your opponent and exhaust him/her. This weight manipulation would give a competitor an edge, and could possibly affect the outcome of the fight as well.ĭo the math: if you weigh more than your opponent, you’re probably stronger. Because a fighter can lower his/her weight during a weigh-in, he/she can then show up to the actual fight 10-20 pounds heavier than his/her opponent. It's just misinformed, unfortunately, and it's really sad, because at the end of the day, it's Francis that we're talking about.Weight cutting is how a fighter manipulates his/her weight to increase his/her chance of winning a fight. "It's kind of sad, but I think the playbook has been written for many years, long before I started representing fighters, right? And if you're smart to look at how they operate and do things, one of the strategies – I feel, and I could be wrong - is they want to divide and conquer and try to put everything on the representation, and the last fighter was the fighter and he's on vacation and everything like that. "Yeah, that's super unfortunate to hear from your promoter, like, 'Hey, if you want to be here, great, if not, great,'" Martin said in response. White, in an interview with ESPN earlier this month, took a nonchalant approach to Ngannou's contract status. They can't put themselves in a situation to establish a precedent that negatively reflects them, so that's kind of the rub." But at the end of the day, the UFC has a business model, that's how they run it with all their fighters. It is 1000 percent not all about money, and they know that. "Let me make this clear: It's not all about money. "Am I supposed to take you out to dinner, be your best friend? No, I have a fiduciary obligation to my client, and the facts are, OK, if you want to judge me and try to put me out of business for whatever reason and bully me publicly, I don't respond to that. "What does representation look like in your mind, UFC? To say yes to every single thing that you do," Martin said. Martin suggested that UFC brass has molded an environment where managers cannot advocate in the best interest of their fighters. So I'm not sure if they want to negotiate a contract before or whatnot, but that's totally up to them." So because of that, they've decided not to reach out. "Pretty much we all know that UFC, they hold a power position, rightfully so, and when it comes to representation like myself, and again, of course, I'm going to be biased, they're not going to like what we have to say about how Francis' future looks like and what that is valued at.
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But to be honest with you, I haven't heard back from the UFC since, I want to say June.
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"At the end of the day, I work for Francis, and he and I spent a lot of time chatting back and forth and trying to understand, OK, exactly what does that mean for his future, and we've had a lot of back and forth with the UFC. "From the beginning, we've always and still do remain, like, open to negotiating with UFC," Martin said on Sirius XM's " Throwing Down with Renee and Miesha". Martin, who represents Ngannou on behalf of CAA, revealed in a new interview that his team has not heard from the UFC in six months. Martin and the UFC boss publicly criticized each other in 2021. White put much of the blame on Ngannou's management. Ngannou and UFC president Dana White do not appear to be close on a new deal. "The Predator" enters his headlining title fight against interim champion Ciryl Gane at UFC 270 on the last fight of his contract. The business relationship between UFC and its heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou remains at a standstill, according to Ngannou's manager Marquel Martin.