So for instance when you hear him say “oh she can’t lift” before rose gets absolutely murdered by Andrade, that’s because in Dominick Cruz’ style of martial arts, which no one aside from Dominick Cruz understands, it’s a way worse use of energy to lift with a kimura than to wait for the kimura to be released Dominick Cruz is like a well spoken Tony Ferguson You gotta understand they’re running a business.Dominick Cruz says some things that are odd but I’m not sure what you’d expect by some dude that breakdances in the octagon. You earn everything you get in this sport. It’s when you come at them all crazy, ‘I deserve this, I deserve that…’ You just gotta come from a neutral place. “They’re very open to listen to you if you can create the conversation from a neutral place. “It’s really easy if you just talk to Hunter, talk to Sean Shelby,” Cruz continued. And they’ve always been willing to work with me. “I renegotiate my contract when I get within one or two fights, at the end of it, generally. And I think a lot of us fighters can do that with Sean Shelby whenever we want. If he wants to talk to me, he can reach out to me. “I’ve got a good relationship with Sean Shelby in the sense of communication. They can have a line-up of ten fighters and because a manager has a line-up of ten fighters, sponsors might come to them directly and say, ‘Hey, do you have anybody?’”Ĭruz says he’s developed a good business relationship with UFC executives and believes his fellow fighters can do the same if they did one thing. “Now, if you’re in Bellator, if you’re in PFL, if you’re in any of these other organizations, it makes perfect sense to me for a fighter to have a representation because sponsors can get brought, they can build relationships elsewhere. But in the UFC, hook-ups can you get? The UFC makes the decisions for you. And what managers are good at, from my experience, is making it seem like they have all the hook-ups. “So what is a manager actually doing? They’re just talking and creating the communication. “And then on top of that, with a manager, how are they supposed to be bringing me in sponsors if the UFC dictates the sponsors? So now, the UFC dictates the sponsors, and the UFC dictates the contract,” he explained. Now that that’s off the table, Cruz sees no point in paying a manager to help gather some “hook-ups” from the UFC. That doesn’t make sense to me.”īefore 2015, when the Reebok deal was implemented, fighters could earn extra from their respective apparel sponsorships. “A manager’s really only having one conversation and is getting paid out for four fights.
So why would I pay somebody for four fights when it’s set after one?” he said. “I think in the UFC, we’re signed a six-fight contract, are we not? Four-fight contract, usually, at the lowest. He echoed a similar sentiment to what Sean O’Malley discussed about managers. He says he sees no logic in paying for representation according to the contract’s length. I communicate for myself,” he said.įor “The Dominator,” who’s been in the game for the last 17 years, a manager’s role technically ends after the contract negotiation. “I don’t necessarily manage myself, I just represent myself.
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