Tyson Chartier has a lot of experience in the world of MMA and working with some of the top fighters in the UFC. He's currently the manager of top bantamweight Rob Font and top featherweight Calvin Kattar.
Tyson Chartier has heard plenty of stories from fighters reaching out to him. Many only have the goal of getting into the UFC. He spoke about it in an interview with MixedMartialArts.com.
“One big complaint I get from a lot of fighters that I don’t represent that reach out to me privately is [them saying], ‘I feel like my manager doesn’t really have my best interest in mind,” Chartier told MixedMartialArts.com. “But if I leave them, I’m told I’ll get blacklisted and he’ll screw me over,’ so they get caught in this MMA purgatory where they don’t love who their manager is but they’ve been told in very uncertain terms that if you leave that said manager, you will be blacklisted with the UFC or whoever.
“It’s tough man. Obviously, it’s a very dirty business on the management side. It’d be nice if there were some checks and balances there. That’s why you don’t see me having 100 athletes that I manage.”
The manager also coaches his fighters too. He has their best interest in mind and sees himself as protecting the UFC fighters from the uglier sides of the game. They're friends first and clients second.
“I only manage people because I want to protect them from the evil people in the sport. I focus on managing people who I think are good people, have good teams around them and I want to see them achieve their goals,” he explained. “I started managing guys like Rob back in the day because I wanted to help them. He’s my friend, he’s my teammate. I wanted to help him.
“And once you get to a certain level, you realize all these people coming out of the woodwork just want to make money off these people. They’re just a number to that person. They’re the new hot girl in the class. They want to take them out, bang ’em and move on to the next hot girl. I’m not gonna let my guys be whored out, for lack of a better term. I’m protecting these guys from these sharks.”
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