“Rumble in Racetown” To Help The “Corey Hill Get Well Fund.”
Corey Hill
After speaking with Xtreme Cagefighting Federation promoter Doug Bland, MMAJunkie is reporting that the promotion is planning to donate some of the proceeds from their upcoming “DynaPep Rumble in Racetown”, to be held on Feb. 14, to the “Corey Hill Get Well Fund.”
“Our promotion was new to Florida and Rob Kahn from Gracie Tampa went out of his way to help us,” Bland said. “After Corey was hurt Rob told us about how long he was going to be out and what he was up against, so we thought it would be a good idea to try and put some type of fund raising campaign to help Corey while he was recovering.”
“XCF: DynaPep Rumble in Racetown” is available as on online pay-per-view on the Xtreme Cagefighting Federation’s official website for $9.95. The XCF will donate $1 out of each purchase to the “Corey Hill Get Well Fund.”
In addition to the pay-per-view revenue, the XCF is also generating additional money for the fund at an autograph session.
“We are hosting an autograph session the day of the fight at the arena where fighters will sign a commemorative poster for $10 with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Corey,” Bland said. “For the online pay-per view portion of the event, we will be donating a dollar for each purchase of the fight.”
The article goes on to say that Hill, who suffered a nasty leg break at UFC Fight Night 16: Fight for the Troops, is grateful for the financial assistance he’ll be receiving for him and his family, and “can’t believe the folks at XCF are putting something like this together,” for him.
The fight card for “XCF: DynaPep Rumble in Racetown” is slated to include former UFC fighters Frank Trigg, Terry Martin, Jesse Taylor and Jeremy May along with former All-Pro Tampa Bay Buccaneers Defensive End, Marcus Jones and Daytona native Todd Cutler.
Tags: Corey Hill, Rumble in Racetown, XCF
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maybe when hill gets better he will put on some weight and move up to 170 of even 185, his body didn’t look right at 155, hope he gets better soon tho that was one of the sickest things ive ever seen.
I think this is a nice gesture. Kind of makes the UFC look bad for not even holding a fundraiser for Corey.
I hear you. They’re a billion dollar corporation that does not pay their fighters fairly. I like the editorial that gives them props for 7 events in 8 weeks, yet other organizations put on a show smaller than all 7 events and donates money to one of their lesser paid fighters. Pathetic.
You just drip with hatred for the UFC because it’s the cool thing to do right now, don’t you? Look, we’ve already debunked this “The UFC doesn’t pay well” crap 285 times. They pay better on the whole than anyone else out there. They pay fighters WHAT THE FIGHTERS AGREE THEY ARE WORTH. That’s how contract negotiations work.
Almost 25% of Afflictions fighters are guaranteed 5k or less per fight. At the last UFC event, 5.5% of theirs were. Should the UFC hold a bake sale at their next PPV for a guy who got hurt? Maybe. The problem there is that people will start to expect it every time anyone gets hurt.
johnboy said it right down there. The UFC has insurance on their fighters for their events. They pay medical bills. Now they’re supposed to supply living expenses too? Golly, maybe they should set up a 401(k) for each fighter too, huh? I know, maybe they should set a 250k minimum pay + all expenses for each and every one of their fighters, all because some desk jockeys hate that the UFC makes more money than them!
No one pays fighters more on average than the UFC. No one gives fighters more chances to fight than the UFC. If you want to heap praise on the XCF for doing this fundraiser, I approve completely and agree. But to use this as a reason to condemn the UFC while pretending that most fighters on this card won’t barely make 4k is utter bulls#it and the height of pettiness and stupidity.
Was you talking to me in that reply dbiz? I dont hate the UFC at all. God I really hate reading your posts. I’ve noticed that you never say anything decent or in a polite way. All you ever seem to do is reply to another persons comment and attemp to “put right” what you think they are wrong on.
It is guys/girls(sorry, I dont know if your male or female) lik you that give decent websites like this a bad name.
A few of my buddies asked me for a good MMA site to keep up to date with while thy are out in Iraq and Afgan, s you would expect I gav them this site to follow. After about a week of checking up on all their MMA news, litterally the first thing they said to me was that “dbiz is a TWAT isnt he?”. Seriously. That is the gods honest truth. And I totally agree with them.
You take the fun out of this group. People cannot even post their opinions without you telling them its wrong by correcting them. And let me tell you something, most of the time you talk complete and utter CR@P.
Its a shame really cuz I wont be using this site anymore. Im off to Afganistan in two weeks and cuz of yours and a few others “replying”, Id rather not read it. Ill choose a more “user friendly” MMA website.
To kris who made and runs this site, good job. Just a shame you have people that cant accept anyone elses opinions.
Actually ryan, that was to Figs. Since he is incorrectly spouting facts, I will set him straight. He says the UFC does not pay fighters fairly, but they pay fighters what the fighters agree they are worth. That’s a fact. He IMPLIES that the UFC doesn’t pay as well as others, I pointed out that he is wrong and used facts like fighter salaries to back it up.
If there is an air of superiority in what I write, it is usually because I think and research before I type. I’m sorry you don’t like me, kind of. I’m sorry your friends think I’m a twat, equally kind of. I’m never going to meet your or your friends so your opinions matter slightly less to me than people I may meet, but it is not my intent to offend.
I suspect that you usually read my comments at the end of long arguments where I get sick of making the same point to 25 different people, but I have no solid facts to back that up. that’s usually where I start to lose my temper, though.
That said, stay safe in Afghanistan. I hope that if you don’t come back to this site it is only because of me and not a more sinister alternative.
Holy cow dbiz, you’ve got a lot of hate in you. Lighten up.
drift,
I don’t see any “hate” in dbiz’s statements. Frustration maybe, but not hate. Don’t categorize something you disagree with or don’t necessarily like as “hate” just because you don’t have any real counter to the points illustrated.
Definitely not hate. Were it hate, you see insults like “knuckle dragging window lickers” thrown around left and right.
In this case it’s just that I speak bluntly, especially when it’s the 50th time in two weeks I’ve had to make a point.
DBIZ,
I see your points 100%, I’ve read your opinions on this subject in other posts too, I just happen to disagree with you. To say the UFC pays their guys top notch is not true at all. Boxers still get paid a million times more than these guys, and Boxing does not have the same PPV following as it used to. No I’m not saying we need to “DON KING” MMA as far as paying goes, but offer a decent living should be expected.
The UFC right now seems to be the big factory in a small town. Either take what we give you, or go work for someone else. Attitudes and pay stuctures like this is why unions were created, and look what unions have done.
We will obviously never agree on this subject, but for you to state that I’m on an anti-ufc rant because they are popular purely shows your ignorance on me because I have a legit opinion. I have followed this sport for a long time and personally feel that alot of these guys are underpaid.
Period.
re: “Boxers still get paid a million times more than these guys”
You’re wrong, dead wrong. Maybe the top draw boxers get more, but the lesser guys get scraps, compared to the lesser guys in the UFC. We’ve covered that before.
Also, there’s a lot more money in boxing than there is in MMA right now, from sponsors and higher ticket prices…. which has also been covered here before.
“No I’m not saying we need to “DON KING” MMA as far as paying goes, but offer a decent living should be expected. ”
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I see. So mediocre guys pulling in 12k a fight aren’t being paid a living wage? Average 4 fights a year and you’re looking at 50K, before sponsorships. That’s a decent living. I will, once again, cite Mir’s numbers from his Lesnar fight:
40k to show, 40k to win, 60k sub of the night, 85k sponsors. By the time you reach the level of a UFC PPV, you are not counting on your contract pay. He was guaranteed less than 25% of what he got. His show+win was less than his sponsorships.
UP NEXT….
“Attitudes and pay stuctures like this is why unions were created, and look what unions have done. ”
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Yes, look indeed. They’ve made American workers too expensive for companies to employ them. Look at the US auto industry. Compare that to non-union companies like Toyota and Honda and Hyundai. Hell, look at most manufacturing jobs. Good made in the US are double the cost of those made overseas, largely due to the effect of 80 years of unions driving up wages without driving up productivity. Union shops are not competitive with non-union shops. Why even bring this argument up? It serves my side more than yours.
You seem to be missing the point of why a union was put there in the first place, because people were underpaid and mistreated. I stick with my point that the UFC is the only factory in town, and you better take what they give you or go find a new job.
Also, most of these guys don’t get four fights a year, maybe a small portion of them.
i know right. youd think they would have done a fundraiser for evan tanner’s family
to be fair to the ufc tho its not a charity, i think the ufc should pay for all the medical bills as it happend in there show but nothing else is really there problem
Also, to be fair, no one here actually knows what the UFC has or hasn’t done to help out the family other than what is public record. They may have already given a lot of money to that fund, but didn’t tell anyone because they did it to help the Hill and his family, not to get good press.
I think its interesting that the NFL, NBA, and MLB organiztions all provide top notch medical care for their athletes when their injured, but its fair for the UFC to be neglectful in this area because their “not a charity”. Its in the UFC’s best interest to keep their fighters healthy both from a public relations standpoint, as well as ensuring that their fighters can get well and show up to fight again. If they want to become mainstream so badly they should adopt some of the policies that other sports organizations practice, and treat their athletes better. Hopefully this gesture by the XFC will shame some of the bigwigs in other MMA venues into caring a little more about their fighters and a little less about how much cash they can stuff in their pockets.
The sports organizations themselves do not pay for anything. Either they or the players’ unions provide better medical insurance than anyone outside of maybe your professional circus seals in Washington. Also, see Justin’s post right above.
MLB, the NBA, and the NFL do not pay for rehab after surgery. The UFC did. Get your facts straight.
http://www.ufcfight.com/mma/2008/12/ufc-will-pay-fo.html
And to follow up with myself…look at all the current and former NFL players suffering post-concussion syndrome, years later, and the NFL doesn’t care. The NHL has the same problems. The prevailing attitude in sports is that the instant you stop working for an organization you get nothing, not even the time of day. And those are all MATURE, established sports.
Fighters who plan properly should have their own insurance and retirement set up. Those who don’t will suffer. It’s kind of like every other arena in life.
Thank you dbiz for that info, I guess it can be misleading when you see an athlete get injured in another sport and 10 minutes later his injury is being diagnosed by an orthopedic specialist and usually when an mma fighter gets injured you hear abut him going to the local hospital and dont hear much else. Also good point that there should be more focus on long term wear and tear, it would be awesome to see mma take care of their athletes overall and not just discard them like their nothing after they had their run.
if you want to bash the UFC, why don’t you go to a NFL or NHL site? because we like the UFC here! not this kinda sh!t. you got proved wrong and instead of admittind it you just talk more smack! why is that?
dbiz is not adding anything to this site. I actually stopped reading through most of the comment sections because his posts are typically stated as fact when he has no first hand knowledge of most anything he says. He has no idea what goes into a contract negotiation’s. And unless your basically ranked top 10 in your division, fighters don’t get to “agree” on an amount that they are worth. Instead they must take what is offered or watch their spot given to some one else because like most jobs you can usually find some one to do it for cheaper. But does that make it OK, right, or fair? Especially when you’ve reach the pinnacle as far as organizations go.
–try to play nice, dbiz–
Ok, I had some time to think of a less offensive way to say my point, so…Kris, you can remove that other one if you want.
You’re complaining about what the UFC pays its fighters and how they get to set the rates for their cards…but you don’t get it. People who **** about the disclosed payouts from events and compare it to boxing…don’t get it. Do you know why you don’t get it? You don’t look more than one step down the road.
Fedor gets it. Why was Fedor happy with his 300k disclosed? Because of the million and a half or more he got behind closed doors from sponsors and in bonuses and percentages.
Mir gets it. Why is he thrilled with 40k to show when his opponent gets 500k? Because the money in MMA doesn’t come from the organizations that write your contract. It never has, it never will.
Mir understands that space on his shorts is more valuable than 25 minutes in the octagon. He understands the dollar value of the URL on the banner in his corner. The shirt on his back. The drink in his hand. He understands that winning and winning in an impressive fashion is easy money.
40k to show. 225k in the bank account. It’s a goddamn no-brainer. And you people wonder why it’s so frustrating to have to listen to the same damn complaints month after month. None of you get it.
Chuck Liddell gets it. He got 100k to stand outside a movie theater when 300 premiered. Easiest 100k he ever made, and it didn’t come from the UFC or in the octagon. 75k a year to pretend Xyience doesn’t taste like honey roasted ass and can help John Q. Couch Potato become some kind of athlete. Because he gets it.
The Iceman never got more than 2 million a year in disclosed payouts that I know of. And yet, he is said to have been making 9 million a year total. That is all you need to see. The money doesn’t come in the octagon.
By the time you’re on a UFC card, you have sponsors. Sponsors that want their name on the screen at all times and will pay handsomely to get a premium spot on a fighters trunks. Or on his hat. On his sign. On his back or in his hand in a drink he shakes but never opens, a la Barnett.
And it’s that way across most professional sports. Tiger Woods brings home maybe 10 million a year from winning events. And 100 million a year from endorsements. He is on pace to be worth over 1 billion in the next 2 years, and so far less than 83 million of that is from golf.
He gets it. You don’t.
Lol, I still disagree with u….. but those are awesome points!!
Ok let me just say this. I have (and had) friends on NFL rosters and practice squads, so medical issues with it our a sore subject for me. NFL, the teams will only pay the bare minimum and will even lie on injury reports in order to keep from paying full amounts, Also there is only funds available when you are on an active roster. Practice squad guys don’t get the same benefits. Also before Gene Upshaw’s death the number one issue was a health fund for former players. There are countless stories of veterans now bankrupt trying to pay for medical bills because they cannot pay for health insurance because no one will pick them up due to the “preexisting conditions”. Say what you want about them spending their money better or saving it up but look up the price of a knee surgery with out insurance and then imagine paying for 4 or 5 a year. Plus in the NFL there is no guaranteed money so you may sign a contract $520,000, have a small injury in camp and be cut making only 5,000, sure they may pay your med bills but ask those Texans players injured doing illegal practices about that, some of them still haven’t been paid back. Also the reports you see on TV about an athlete’s injuries are technically illegal, and on-sight docs are literally there to decide whether a cortisone shot will do the trick or if they have to go to the hospital.
I don’t know about the NBA so I cannot say anything and baseball is a little better since you still get the money guaranteed to you. I guess the point I am trying to make is that health care for an athlete is more expensive and all sports need to improve what they do for their athletes. Is the UFC perfect? God no. Bonnar had to find ways to make ends meat until he could fight again, and the UFC paid the insurance to help him out. I’m actually proud and happy to see this from a smaller organization and hope that eventually larger organizations can eventually try and/or be able to afford to help their guys out. The truth is all sports need better healthcare for their former players and it’s less likely you’d see a big sport like the NFL, NBA, NHL, or NBA have a fundraiser for guys like this. So stop ****ing about the UFC because that’s not the main issue just be proud to see the fight community banding together to help one of their own. I wish Corey Hill a speedy recovery.
are* not our
Not to be a jerk or anything, but in most places of employment, companies will try to weasel out of paying medical expenses for employees. It’s not just the NFL. We could get into a moral argument about the physical nature of football and the higher rate of work-related injuries there as opposed to say, being a teacher or computer programmer or whatever, but that won’t get anywhere and will only end up as an exercise in name-calling. I worked at a major package shipping company and saw a guy strain his back and couldn’t work for three weeks. He went to a doctor and because he said that he slept funny and his back was a little sore that morning, the company tried to establish a “prior injury” and they shouldn’t have to pay medical expenses or disability. It didn’t work, but that sort of crap happens everywhere at all places of employment. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m just saying it happens.
Don’t worry. I’m apparently enough of a jerk for all of us.
that’s kinda my point really, it’s not just the UFC, it’s not just the NFL, it’s not just a local grocery store…just be happy he’s being helped out.
It’s not the employer that is trying to deny the insurance claim, it’s the insurance companies. Well in the U.S. at least. Medical insurance coverage is spendy and when you want to file a claim, it’s more painful then the injury.
Dbiz is correct about the UFC paying fighters what they agreed to in contract negotiations. UFC is still a “new” sport for most of the world, only a few have watched for many years. Look at all other professional sports when they first started up mainstream, the athlete’s salaries were no where near what they are today. Once the UFC’s global market increases, fighter contracts will increase.
If it’s an on-the-job injury, it is the employer because that is disability, not part of the standard insurance package.
All I was saying was I’d hate to see the UFC develop into the kinda corporate greed goatf*ck fest that Chris L. described. With events like “fight for the troops” they are already making headway in the right direction, imo. Wasn’t by any means bashing the UFC, I have over 25 gigs of events purchased and ripped or downloaded onto my computer since ufc 1, consider myself a big fan and a big supporter of fighters in general. I think sharp criticism is necessary from fans though to ensure that this sport doesn’t take the same turn others have and to keep fighters first. The almighty dollar makes a persuasive argument for trimming in this regard and if fans show disapproval it just might make a difference — as opposed to voicing no disapproval whatsoever because you like the UFC.