Många fighters har haft åsikter om reeboks avtal med UFC och många åsikter har varit negativa och nu ställer sig Sara McMann (8-2) till den skaran som är tveksamma till om avtalet kommer gynna kvinnor lika mycket som män.
McMann menar att kvinnliga fighters inte kommer att gynnas lika mycket då kvinnliga fighters bara har funnits i UFC i dryga två år.
”I feel like this is a really touchy subject just because if you look at the numbers and you look at the facts, there could be a strong case for gender inequity in the way this deal is presented,” sa McMann. ”I think the UFC and Reebok would never want to be perceived as somebody who was treating an entire gender poorly.”
McMann kommer kontakta en advokat som kommer ha bättre insikt i om det finns någonting att göra.
”Gender equity is a very big deal,” sa McMann. ”I’m not gonna come and make statements if I don’t actually have backing, if I’m not in the right. I’m not gonna pitch a fit and throw a tantrum. I’m gonna come intelligently and say that really is not fair.”
”The women are just recently added, but that doesn’t mean that these girls haven’t been fighting for years or been in other sports for years and they don’t deserve to be compensated for that,” sa McMann. ”They deserve $2500?”
De kvinnliga fighters som gynnas av avtalet är mästarna och titelutmanare som kommer att tjäna betydligt mycket mer än alla andra i sin division och McMann hoppas att någonting kommer att göras åt detta.
”This is really something they really need to think about, because it does look discriminatory against an entire gender. So I think they probably will do the right thing and contact people and make personal deals. They’ve already done that with other people and I don’t understand why they couldn’t do that with the women.”
McMann menar att många av de kvinnliga fighters har hållit på med sporten i flera år och ska inte behandlas likadant som en ung manlig fighter som precis fått kontrakt med UFC som är i början av sin karriär.
”[Men] are getting the majority of that chunk and we’re being left high in dry because we were just recently added,” sa McMann. ”That doesn’t mean we haven’t had full careers and these women don’t deserve it. We’re not the same as just a younger guy who just made it to the UFC. We shouldn’t be treated that way.”
”I wasn’t going to make a statement without looking and examining whether I could back it up,” sa McMann. ”That really is the case. It would be the equivalent if this were the civil rights movement and you decided to hire minorities and then you instill a policy that said the only way you can be applicable for a raise is if you have been with the company for five years. Well, automatically every single minority would be out of that running.”
