Hayabusa Fight Wear Added To UFC Banned List

**Il Loco** · 01-07-2009, 10:50

Hayabusa Fight Wear Added To UFC Banned List

June 30, 2009

Add another brand to the recent spate of clothing lines being banned from the Octagon by the UFC. MMAPayout has learned that Hayabusa Fight Wear, a brand favored by Canadian fighters like Denis Kang among others, has just been added to a list of blackballed brands that includes Rolling Stone, Dethrone, and One More Round.

Steve Sievert of MMAJunkie should be commended for his early reporting on these sponsor issues, as well as Sam Caplan for breaking the first concrete examples of this policy being instituted, especially the $100,000 fees that have been put in place to access fighters. Kudos to the writer at Yahoo with balls for calling the UFC on these moves when they were first rumored. I’d love to see follow-ups from Steve amd Maggie now that this has come to fruition.

This policy has been going on for a while, with managers mentioning a sponsor tax on occasion but loathe to attach a dollar figure to the amount. The top tier players in apparel (and mma apparel retailing) are either giving up points in their company or have being paying the fee for quite a while. At this point, the big fish have been snagged and the UFC is now rounding up the stragglers.

This is a situation that has been brewing for quite a while, and one that we have commented on. In our piece for SI.com, we noted that the UFC would move to become the central conduit through which all sponsor dollars would flow. They are looking to institute trickle down economic theory on the world of MMA sponsorships, where the big dollars are deposited at the corporate level with the UFC, with the minor amounts trickling down to the fighters.

The $100,000 dollar fee is lining the UFC’s pockets, but at the same time is shifting the primary relationship in sponsorship from the Fighter/Manager combo and the sponsor to the sponsor and the UFC. With the fighter/sponsor relationship altered, the portability of sponsorships if one leaves the UFC is lessened. With the UFC controlling all the moving parts of revenue for fighters, the specter of the UFC moving towards 360 deals is becoming increasingly probable. For all of the reasons above, the shift in Sponsorships in the UFC doesn’t bode well for the fighter.

**dirk5** · 01-07-2009, 10:54

er komt nog een tijd dat we alleen Tapout, Harley Davidson en bud light gaan zien....

the difference is drinkability!

**bryan** · 01-07-2009, 11:07

UFC is echt te fucking dominant... zie het al voor me.. dat de FIFA nike gaat bannen van de voetbalvelden

**sikkwitttet** · 01-07-2009, 11:15

hehehe.

maar ik vond hayabusa juist best vet merk.want vond het minder crap dan die andere shit zoals warrior wear?bedoel alleen die naam al.

**dirk5** · 01-07-2009, 11:20

Originally Posted by sikkwitttet

hehehe.

maar ik vond hayabusa juist best vet merk.want vond het minder crap dan die andere shit zoals warrior wear?bedoel alleen die naam al.

en de broeken zagen er ook nog eens normaal en mooi uit.

**Leventdepevent** · 01-07-2009, 11:27

mmmm jammer ze hebben idd vette shorts etc.

**Sendur** · 01-07-2009, 11:55

de gloves zijn ook cool !

**Leventdepevent** · 01-07-2009, 13:03

ik zeg laat zien die pics....

**sikkwitttet** · 01-07-2009, 13:06

Originally Posted by dirk5

en de broeken zagen er ook nog eens normaal en mooi uit.

x2
en gewoon een vette naam

**stefan** · 01-07-2009, 13:28

Ik gebruik hayabusa al weer een jaar, ik vind het top spul.
Tot nu het beste wat ik gehad heb.

**Ivo C.** · 01-07-2009, 13:47

Originally Posted by bryan

UFC is echt te fucking dominant... zie het al voor me.. dat de FIFA nike gaat bannen van de voetbalvelden

Yeah! adidas rulez!

**Sendur** · 01-07-2009, 16:16

Originally Posted by Leventdepevent

ik zeg laat zien die pics....

**Leventdepevent** · 02-07-2009, 07:25

Mooi he....als ik moest kiezen ging ik voor die witte

**De man van 14K** · 02-07-2009, 08:54

Daar zie je dat bloed zo goed op he..
Maar serieus, wat een madness. Dat ze gewoon bepalen welke merknamen er uberhaubt te zien zijn in de UFC events.

**Garcia** · 02-07-2009, 09:21

Ik vind dat wel te ver gaan. Vechters hebben sponsoren nodig en zo'n merk kan dus aardig wat geld pompen in de UFC, maar blijkbaar is dat niet nodig :S