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Gotta disagree here I'm afraid - MMA is like anything where there is more supply than demand - the fighters don't hold all hte cards at all, unless you are a big draw or crowd puller you mean literally nothing to the promoter, if you ask for too much cash he can just draw for the next person on his list, end of problem lol.
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That's not exactly true. Very few Sports strikes have NOT ended in the Athletes getting their way in some manner. Promotional Companies can't do anything without quality shows. In fact Dana White even began Promoting MMA because he wasn't accomplishing anything in Boxing Promotion. Every Promotional stable has their trialhorses that do most of the hard work in-terms of taking fights and putting on good shows. These people ARE holding the cards.
To give you an example, this guy is one of those guys in Boxing:
Reggie Strickland
At first-glance people laugh at his record, but Reggie and his Brother are both good Fighters. They just simply saw a role and filled it, journeyman, the kind of guy who will do what he's told for money as opposed to trying to be a World Champion. And he's made a good living at it. If you want an indication of how tough he is , in 363 Fights, having only been stopped (and not always by actual knockout) 25 times is astounding.
Anyway, once Reggie was on a card against an up-and-comer a Promoter was sinking large money into. Reggie agreed to drop a decision to the kid as long as the kid didn't try and kill him. But often times eager young lions who think they're getting their way will take a yard when given an inch. The kid started TRYING to knock Reggie out. Reggie proceeded to beat him up to the point where all that was keeping the kid on his feet was Reggie in the clinches. DURING the Fight Reggie told the Promoter who was at Ringside to tell the kid to back off, or he'd lose his investment (meaning he'd kick the kid's ass).
Needless to say the kid was told to back off, did, and got a decision win.
