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I love MMA, but you see this in the minor leagues there too. Bleacher Report [0] highlights Shannon Ritch who spent many years showing up for a payday, take a

I love MMA, but you see this in the minor leagues there too. Bleacher Report [0] highlights Shannon Ritch who spent many years showing up for a payday, take a loss, and avoid getting hurt. Bob Sapp [1] is another who moved on to "taking a payday" later in his career. In both sports it's a terrible way to earn a payday. A couple hundred bucks for being a little further along the path towards lifetime brain damage. [0] http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1068142-the-10-most-dubious-records-in-mma/page/2 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1068142-the-10-most-dubio... [1] http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/5/18/5728820/bob-sapp-says-he-spent-the-end-of-his-career-paying-off-big-medical http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/5/18/5728820/bob-sapp-says-h...

somekindofnate 11y ago
I honestly never thought I would see a comment about Bob Sapp on Hacker News. Sad what happened to him. He was a physical specimen. Gave Nogueira a run for his money and beat some serious K-1 kickboxers. Boxing is also suffering from decades of mismanagement and infighting. To me, that's more to blame for boxing's current state than MMA's rise in popularity.
- sanoli 11y ago
  Yep, Bob Sapp on HN. Sort of made my morning!
- lp251 11y ago
  What's sad about Sapp? He makes a killing and takes no damage.
  - mathattack 11y ago
    In his prime he made a killing. Now he gets 10-20K a fight to fly somewhere strange, make a scene at the weigh-in, and then tap at the first opportunity. It's not the worst way to make a living, but it doesn't look like the life of a guy who saved the millions he made in his heyday in Japan.
- unclebucknasty 11y ago
  >Boxing is also suffering from decades of mismanagement and infighting. Exactly, and with no one there to really take care of the sport itself. With its promoter-driven model, it's about every party extracting maximum cash per the next event or two. The sanctioning bodies are too many and do very little to protect or grow the "boxing brand". In UFC, MMA has the opposite.

somekindofnate 11y ago

I honestly never thought I would see a comment about Bob Sapp on Hacker News. Sad what happened to him. He was a physical specimen. Gave Nogueira a run for his money and beat some serious K-1 kickboxers. Boxing is also suffering from decades of mismanagement and infighting. To me, that's more to blame for boxing's current state than MMA's rise in popularity.

sanoli 11y ago
Yep, Bob Sapp on HN. Sort of made my morning!
lp251 11y ago
What's sad about Sapp? He makes a killing and takes no damage.
- mathattack 11y ago
  In his prime he made a killing. Now he gets 10-20K a fight to fly somewhere strange, make a scene at the weigh-in, and then tap at the first opportunity. It's not the worst way to make a living, but it doesn't look like the life of a guy who saved the millions he made in his heyday in Japan.
unclebucknasty 11y ago
>Boxing is also suffering from decades of mismanagement and infighting. Exactly, and with no one there to really take care of the sport itself. With its promoter-driven model, it's about every party extracting maximum cash per the next event or two. The sanctioning bodies are too many and do very little to protect or grow the "boxing brand". In UFC, MMA has the opposite.