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UnderGround Forum >> How GSP made millions while injured
| 11/16/12 3:06 PM | |
OnlyTheStrongSurvive
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Crooklyn -GSP is everything Jones wants everyone to think about him. But he isn't, which is the problem. 
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| 11/16/12 3:10 PM | |
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Wasa-B
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Crooklyn - Explain. |
| 11/16/12 3:20 PM | |
ILoveWatchingJonesBoneShogun
Member Since: 2/27/08 Posts: 15413 |
GSP is classy and doesn't trash talk people or come across phony and fake. Jones just needs to go all out thug or all out surfer and stop bouncing around from personality to personality. He has an identity crisis |
| 11/16/12 3:23 PM | |
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ShaqNoob
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hubris - would you really want this guy representing your product?Depends on the product. 
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| 11/16/12 3:24 PM | |
sgotwalks
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Kirik -DrunkenBatman - St-Pierre currently has 14 endorsement deals with each paying him somewhere in the six-figure range. If you tally up the numbers from past and present deals, his income outside the cage is well into eight figures, with much of it coming in the past year alone. Well put Chief! |
| 11/16/12 3:24 PM | |
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ophusker
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I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. |
| 11/16/12 3:30 PM | |
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sgotwalks
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ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. Sounds like Koscheck is everything you are looking for to be the face of your company. What kind of business would that be? |
| 11/16/12 3:31 PM | |
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iamarealamerican
Member Since: 2/23/12 Posts: 336 |
ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. he's a nice guy who's humble and doesn't appear to be a fighter at least personality wise, physically looking he is like an adonis, and will dominate you in the cage he is essentially what other people look up to or aspire to be like, his accent doesnt even matter, he represents all that is good in mma one criticism is his lack of finishes, but he is winning and that is all that matters |
| 11/16/12 3:33 PM | |
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notsobigmike
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ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. He's the picture perfect MMA athlete for product endorsement. Although it's made strides over the past 7 years or so, the mainstream image of MMA is still that of relatively untrained, 'roided up, tattoo-sportin', mohawk-wearin', trash-talkin', bar-brawler. GSP is the absolute antithesis of that. He comes from a traditional martial arts background, trains like a legitimate professional athlete, and carries himself in a polite, articulate, and professional manner. For most mainstream products, the one thing you want in your celebrity/athlete spokes person is professionalism. |
| 11/16/12 3:34 PM | |
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OnlyTheStrongSurvive
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ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though.This is exactly what makes him appealing. He's professional and safe. You don't have to worry about him ever making your company look bad.
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| 11/16/12 3:37 PM | |
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BobD
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MartinLav -Sippy Cuppy - I wonder what % Zuffa gets when a UFC fighter is sponsored The 'Zuffa tax' is only applied to supplement and clothing sponsors. |
| 11/16/12 3:40 PM | |
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UGCTT_EnderTL
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Member Since: 11/23/10 Posts: 5934 |
ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though.Lol. I hope you don't work in advertising.
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| 11/16/12 4:29 PM | |
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Ondz
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Member Since: 9/28/09 Posts: 422 |
ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. He's from Canada?!? Holy shit no wonder the UFC has kept that secret, what a shocker. Good find man. |
| 11/16/12 5:17 PM | |
dogfb
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notsobigmike -ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. Pretty much this. |
| 11/16/12 6:05 PM | |
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ophusker
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notsobigmike -ophusker - I don't really get the appeal of GSP to sponsors. He's from Canada and speaks with a bad accent. He's got a pretty dull personality and seems kind of nerdy. I think he's a great fighter and by all apperances a real nice guy, but if I was looking for someone to rep my company he's not the face I'd want to put on it. More power to the guy if people are willing to pay him for it though. I get all that but the demograhpic MMA advertising brings still looks more like the stereotype you described then it does GSP. If I was mainstream I'd probably stay away from MMA all together for that reason. I remember watching tapout back in the day and mask was looking for tatted up hispanic figthers. He wanted the figthers to look like the people he envisioned buying his products. I guess if you're selling high end vodka you might envision someone that looks like GSP buying it. But your customers don't sound like him or come from where he comes from. Many of them probably don't even watch MMA and the ones that do probably have tats and use roids. |
| 11/16/12 6:08 PM | |
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poops
Member Since: 9/1/12 Posts: 68 |
They should be paid the same because they have the same tattoo.
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| 11/16/12 6:15 PM | |
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Tilla
Member Since: 10/13/12 Posts: 308 |
json123 -Crooklyn - GSP has got a twitter/Facebook account? |
| 11/16/12 6:29 PM | |
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Nucky
Member Since: 11/14/12 Posts: 95 |
Crooklyn - usually a big difference between someone in there 30's and someone in there early 20's. |
| 11/16/12 6:30 PM | |
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TheKidAintMine
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 12433 |
Kirik -DrunkenBatman - St-Pierre currently has 14 endorsement deals with each paying him somewhere in the six-figure range. If you tally up the numbers from past and present deals, his income outside the cage is well into eight figures, with much of it coming in the past year alone. I respectfully disagree. Simply beating GSP doesn't mean that blue chip multinational companies will line up to sponsor you. GSP has that "it" factor that makes him very marketable to both men and women. Rory, at the moment, just isn't that marketable and doesn't attract as many viewers as GSP. Athletes like GSP, Anderson Silva, the Rock have those intangible qualities that you just can't teach. |
| 11/16/12 8:10 PM | |
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sgotwalks
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Whether a fighter has the same appeal as someone like Georges or not, the bottom line remains.......whoever beats Georges will be far better off than they would have been had they not beat him. |
| 11/17/12 12:39 AM | |
DrunkenBatman
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Member Since: 2/27/11 Posts: 8042 |
Mr kirik....to me Income does not mean life earnings so far,it means a rough yearly income (In coming). (I thought everyone thought of "income" as yearly money incoming) Will correct this post when i am at a pc.
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| 11/17/12 12:41 AM | |
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JFC1001
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Member Since: 10/28/11 Posts: 84 |
Crooklyn -This.
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| 11/17/12 1:39 AM | |
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DaemonDragon
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Member Since: 2/16/09 Posts: 1724 |
OnlyTheStrongSurvive - GSP is everything Jones wants everyone to think about him. But he isn't, which is the problem. Yes, very true. Jones wants to exude this aura of humble professionalism - but absolutely nobody buys it because he's terrible at acting that way. He can only thinly veil his arrogance, and he's also very immature. He wants to project himself as a mature pro, but can only manage to project himself as a sleazy cocky young kid. Now to a certain extent I can imagine a rich young person with celebrity status going out and enjoying themselves, there's nothing wrong with that - but that person shouldn't try to act all fake professional to attract sponsors when they are anything but. I mean something like Jones talking about how he'd never get into a DUI, then weeks later getting into a DUI, is just absurd. But Jones is probably surrounded mostly by yes men and I don't see him altering his behavior. And I think Jones will still contintue to try and act all fake professional to attract sponsors - and to some extent it will work. But he will never be as profitable for sponsors as GSP until he matures (which I just don't see happening). |
| 11/17/12 5:55 AM | |
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tiger07
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Member Since: 8/8/09 Posts: 932 |
I hope GSP becomes the highest paid sportsman. He truly deserves it. |
| 11/17/12 9:20 AM | |
Mushroom Slap
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Member Since: 12/1/07 Posts: 11135 |
Id like to see the past and current fighters wealth list updated that was posted here a few months ago. I believe GSP was 5th or so with DFW being 1 and Chuck the top fighter. |
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