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Is the UFC trying to be two different animals?

Okay guys, I'm here to ask a question that is often overlooked. A question I believe is the seedling of every bitch and gripe we have when the UFC makes extremely jarring decisions. About the welfare of fighters, and in situations where an ethical and lawful response is required.

First let's talk about the UFC's labour force. The UFC is estimated as to having somewhere between 200-500 employees, with 7 current job openings. If this is anything accurate, I'm a little scared. The NBA has 55 current job openings, with an estimated total of 1200 employees worldwide.

So why is this an issue?

Well, promised title shots get revoked on consistent basis due to circumstance, shady labs are used in testing professional athletes whom uphold delicate reputations (meaning they can be swayed in either direction quite easily), and Cody Mckenzie once fought with fucking wal-mart shorts. The question is, is this ethical?

Ever have those moments when the production truck whispers in Joe Rogan's ear telling him to ask Ronda Rousey to fight 3 weeks later? The question is, was there any due diligence put in place in order to prevent something like this from happening, if any?

I don't know about you, but whenever one of these baffling incidents happens I can't help but ask myself, does the UFC even know what they are doing? Do they have a human resources department? Do they have enough preventative measures set in place to make sure erratic things like wal-mart shorts don't happen? Why is John Anik standing between two skyscrapers? *shakes head* I just don't know.

In one light, the UFC claims to be working it's way around the world developing talent and organizing events in order to facilitate an every growing market and interest for MMA as well as bring all the best fighters from around the world to compete on one platform. In another light, they are acting in such ways that completely derail the sentiment of wanting to become a major sport such as the NHL, and the NBA.

The UFC has claimed that they now have the last key to become a major worldwide sport; uniform deal.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

The last key component that an organization like this needs to have in order to become a worldwide sport, is ethics. Ethics in sport, ethics in business, ethics in entertainment, fuckin' ethics bro!

Perhaps if the UFC wasn't fighting itself internally like this, they would be further along in their goal of making MMA a worldwide sport. If we're looking at this sport like we would NBA, was it really ethical to cut Jon Fitch for being "boring" but "dominating"? Is it ethical to deny Ben Askren his chance all the while signing CM Punk? The reason these types of issues don't occur in other sports as often as it does in MMA (yes, yes I know. Donald Sterling) is because there is money, energy, time, and diligence invested into these parts of the business in order to prevent their organization from being sued as the UFC has been. Most importantly, it's for the players, the athletes, the teams, and so on. It's for their own benefit. The less mistakes the UFC makes, the less fighters will be disgruntled. It's about time the UFC start opening their eyes. It's 2014, people care about human rights, and human equality.