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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg
No health insurance to people beating the **** out of each other? That's criminal.
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They view them as independent contractors, so they think they don't have to provide benefits. Yet, the UFC struck a sponsorship deal with Reebok, and the UFC forced all of the fighters to stop wearing gear from their sponsors and said that they can ONLY wear Reebok gear. This caused many of the sponsors to drop their investment in the fighters, and the fighters lost money.
So, they are independent contractors, yet the UFC can tell them what they have to wear? That doesn't jive.