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Originally Posted by tha wreck
maybe that. but i think they dont want their champ hurt competing in something other than their own interests. are you guys that dumb? professional sports contracts always have clauses FULL of shit their athletes aren't allowed to do (riding a motorcycle, skydiving, etc.). usually shit that the athletes love to do. it's business, it happens, get over it. owners protect their investments
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That's the type of provision the Yankees used to get out of Aaron Boone's contract when he blew out his knee playing basketball in the off-season. Also why Jeff Kent insisted that he got hurt falling off his boat while washing it, and not on his motorcycle. Ideally, though, even if there's an escape clause in the contract, you'd rather your marquee players/fighters NOT get hurt doing that stuff in the first place. You get out of paying them when they're injured that way, but you don't recoup what you lose in terms of the money they aren't bringing in for you.
I think both aspects weigh into it. You don't want to risk one of your guys getting hurt, and you don't want them to get beat by someone outside your company. If Fedor signs and Lesnar beats him, wahoo for the UFC - they market Lesnar as the guy who beat Fedor. If he loses in a different combat sport or different MMA org, now he loses the aura of invincibility, and you don't benefit from having the guy that took it away. If he gets hurt in a sambo tourney, you void his contract, but you don't make the money he would have brought in over the duration of that contract.