Chael Sonnen:I was offered $5 million Vince McMahon. Now, I was still under contract with the UFC and I never took this to Dana. I handled it on my own. I told them No and that was the end of that. I never told Dana White this story, but heres why I didnt tell him. I knew if I called Dana and said, Ive got a $5 million offer from Vince McMahon, Dana would have matched it. Dana would have come close and now all of a sudden Im not a loyal employee. Im not loyal to the UFC. Im shopping them and Im being loyal to myself. Thats business. Thats how that works and I dont think anyone would have had hard feelings but I didnt see myself that way. That something really interesting about Dana. If you want to play cutthroat business, he will play, but if you want to relax and just let him take care of things youre going to be a lot better off. If you go in there and try to negotiate, hell negotiate and hell do it like a regular business deal. If you play hard ball a lot of times youll win. A lot of times you will win. Dana likes to say, Yes. However, if a show does exceptionally well you will be bound to what you went in there and fought him for. The UFC, on a regular basis, negotiates against themselves. Dana White will sit down at the negotiating table and hes negotiating against himself, against the old contract hes already got with a guy. Theres no nobody else coming in and bidding on him and hes still giving guys raises.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:07:14 +0000
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