A few weeks ago Dana White made a declarative statement about managers: “Be careful who you get to represent you.”
Reading between the lines, his point was clear: A manager won’t make you any more money than you can make yourself, and a bad manager can hurt you.
While today’s hot-button topic in MMA is the amount of compensation a fighter is paid by a promoter, there’s little focus on the pay that never makes it to the fighter’s pocket because a dishonest or incompetent manager gets in the way.