Michael Chandler knows about the different ways MMA promotions treat their fighters. He was with Bellator for a long time before making the switch over to the UFC.
Many think Bellator treats its fighters really well, while the UFC doesn't. Michael Chandler doesn't believe that's the case and has high praise for his time in the UFC so far.
“The UFC gets a bad rap in a lot of ways because they are just the epitome of a phenomenal promotion. They are the #1 worldwide leader in mixed martial arts, not even close. #2 is not even in the same atmosphere,” Chandler said on Bussin' With The Boys. “So therefore, there’s always people in life and in every vocation, people at the lower rungs want to look up and take shots at the people on the higher rungs instead of trying to climb to a higher rung. So it’s easy for people to sit at their lower rung and shoot shots at the UFC and say they should be doing this, they should be doing that, they should be paying people more, they should be taking care of their fighters more.
“I—and this is just my experience—I have been treated so well by the UFC. I have felt so much love from Dana White, Hunter Campbell, Sean Shelby, Mick Maynard, these guys at the very, very top, the guys who call all the shots and make all the decisions. And this is a huge, huge platform. The UFC is not your small fight promotion like some of these other fight promotions are.”
Michael Chandler is obviously very happy with the UFC and that includes the pay as well. The former title challenger says many athletes have become millionaires thanks to the UFC.
“And ‘They should be quote-unquote ‘paying fighters more’ and they should be doing all this other stuff.’ They’ve done nothing but take care of me,” Chandler said. “I’m banged up right now. They may as well be handing me a credit card and I could just swipe it at any medical place I want to right now to take care of all of my medical bills, to make sure I am taken care of. They’ve got insurance, and they have all these different things, these things that wouldn’t necessarily be covered under insurance. They’re like, ‘We’re gonna take care of it. We’re gonna take care of this; we’re gonna take care of that. That was the fight of the year, anything you need.’
“There’s been so many stories that I have heard about these guys making people millionaires because they are phenomenal fighters, and a lot of this stuff goes under the radar.”
Michael Chandler has been very vocal about how happy he is with the UFC. 2021 was a big year for him as he made his debut in the promotion. He went signed early on and went 1-2 in 2021.
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