Paid Members BigJag Posted December 4, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Will we be getting the hour long Embedded on BT Sports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted December 4, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Will we be getting the hour long Embedded on BT Sports? More than likely as 193 was on, but it will be on youtube anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted December 4, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Yeah. Will have to keep an eye out on the schedules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooner Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Will we be getting the hour long Embedded on BT Sports? It's on BTSport2 this forthcoming Tuesday from 23:15pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted December 4, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Brilliant. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 4, 2015 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 4, 2015 Jesus, it looks fucking amazing. Even though we have seen the clips a million times it never gets old to me. Can't get enough of this build-up and it hasn't even really started properly yet. Next week will be when it really goes into overdrive. Fight week will be insane. All the Embedded episodes will be coming out, we've got the press conference, Helwani interviews etc. Fuck, I'm more excited about the weigh in than I am for most actual fights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 5, 2015 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 John McCarthy is only getting $1,900 for reffing Aldo vs McGregor; On his podcast, “Let’s Get It On” McCarthy revealed that he will make just $1,900 for refereeing Aldo vs. McGregor at UFC 194. “We don’t do this because we become rich off of it, and everyone thinks we get rich off of it. We don’t get rich off of it. It is the ability to have that opportunity and honor to be able to step into that cage and that ring with high profile championship fighters that bust their ass to get to that point and you’re busting your ass to get to that point, too. And when you make it, it’s an opportunity, you know? That’s the kind of thing that you sit there and later on in life you go, I was able to get to that.” I've never really thought about what referees get paid before but that does sound low, doesn't it? I know they're not going to be getting paid as much as the fighters but they do an important as fuck job. Getting less than $2k (less after tax) for reffing the biggest fight of the year (maybe the biggest fight in UFC history) is shite. Does anyone know, do refs get paid per fight they ref or per night they ref? Like if Big John refs two of the undercard fights on this show as well as Aldo vs McGregor does he get paid for each fight or would the $1,900 be a flat fee for the night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Hmmm. That figure does seem very low. I suspect they get paid per-fight. I also suspect MMA refs can get work most weekends, especially in the current climate (there is almost a UFC or Bellator every weekend, and a ton of smaller shows). They probably don't become "rich", but I would have thought that most major refs make a tidy living. Pure conjecture on my part though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I bet (until the Holm fight last month) referees would be delighted to get assigned Ronda's fights. Big John refereed the Rousey/Zingano fight which main-evented a ppv, so he presumably earned around €1,900 that night to tell them to touch gloves and tell Ronda to release the armbar 14 seconds later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted December 5, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 I'm not sure what people really expect for a maximum of 25 minutes work? Nearly 2k for 25 mins for someone who doesn't come into harms way seems good to me. Also, they tend to ref more than 1 fight a night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 5, 2015 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 That's fair enough but I always just assumed a top ref like Big John would be on more than that. Someone at the top of their field who's been doing the job for over 20 years and is reffing a massive fight - $1,900 just sounds low. Wasn't expecting six figures or anything. What kind of money are MMA judges on for a big UFC show? Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted December 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2015 So how do we watch the Embedded shows for Conor/Aldo? They're not on YouTube, but we have 3 for Northcutt already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted December 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2015 The UFC are putting the Aldo/Conor Embedded show up on their YouTube later today. If you can't wait though, someone's already put it up on Dailymotion. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h1m8o_conor-mcgregor-hd_sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted December 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2015 Thanks Supremo. There's probably a delay because they aired on FOX. But I still expected a torrent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_mole Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 The NAC pay the referees in Vegas, John Mccarthy probably refs a card every other week, he probably makes around 500k a year as he owns a gym as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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