{"id":807,"date":"2013-11-19T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/?page_id=807"},"modified":"2014-01-13T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T14:41:22","slug":"how-pay-day-loans-capitalism-ruined-everything","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/en\/mma-articles\/other\/how-pay-day-loans-capitalism-ruined-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Money&#8217;s Relationship with MMA &amp; Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color:red;\">MMA and it&#8217;s relationship with money<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Bob Sapp &#8211; \u00a0Money before Pride &amp; Honour<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Bob Sapp, 6ft 3, 25 stone, formerly one of the best fighters in the world. Not technically mind you, he is just a massive beast. \u00a0He even beat &#8220;mr perfect&#8221; Ernesto Hoost in a kickboxing fight (KO is 5 mins into the vid below)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-819\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bobsapp.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/en\/mma-articles\/other\/how-pay-day-loans-capitalism-ruined-everything\/bobsapp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bobsapp.jpg?fit=261%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"261,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BobSapp\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bob Nog&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bob Sapp Slamming Big Nog&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bobsapp.jpg?fit=261%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-819\" alt=\"Bob Sapp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bobsapp.jpg?resize=208%2C300\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Sapp Slamming Big Nog <a title=\"Image Source\" href=\"http:\/\/message.axkickboxing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/60JcBLgfKXw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also had an amazing fight with Big Nog in Pride.<br \/>\nHe soon started to lose fights though. \u00a0 Often by injury. \u00a0Basically, Bob Sapp had suddenly decided that he didn&#8217;t want to train anymore, or be involved in battles in the ring, so he just turned up, pretended to but hurt and\/or injured, and started losing all his fights.<\/p>\n<p>His MMA record soon went from 11 wins 6 losses, to 11 wins and 18 losses.<br \/>\nBob put money before any pride or honour, and just started accepted what he saw as an appearance fee, rather than a fight purse. \u00a0He&#8217;s made a lot of money doing this, avoiding real injuries no doubt, but degraded the sport in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">MMA T-shirts &#8211; Cashing in<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get me wrong, I understand the need to cash in on everything, it&#8217;s something that we all have to do at some point no doubt, but it still annoys me.<br \/>\nI mean, what kind of a d!ckhead, pays \u00a350 for an <a title=\"Affiliction rip off\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Clothing-Affliction\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;page=1&amp;rh=n:83450031,p_4:Affliction\" target=\"_blank\">Affiliction T-shirt<\/a>?<br \/>\nYou have to be masking some kind of insecurity, or have way too much money to be paying that price for a T-shirt.<br \/>\nIf that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, take a look at the price of the latest\u00a0<a style=\"line-height:1.5;\" title=\"England football shirt\" href=\"http:\/\/store.nike.com\/gb\/en_gb\/pd\/2013-14-england-auntic-football-shirt\/pid-808274\/pgid-808275\" target=\"_blank\">England football shirt\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; \u00a386!<br \/>\nAre you less of a fan if you don&#8217;t pay that for a T-shirt? Are you less of a Dad if you don&#8217;t buy it for your kids?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">MMA is now a business with KPIs<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nKPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are often full of &#8216;loopholes&#8217; and I think they are relied upon too much.<br \/>\nThey are used as a way to communicate performance from the &#8216;front line&#8217; to more senior members of staff.<br \/>\nBut KPIs, in my opinion, caused the credit crunch.<br \/>\nPeople are pressurised, often unfairly, to hit targets, they will often lose their jobs if they fail. \u00a0Often they force people to find loopholes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you&#8217;re working in a call centre and monitored on calls per hour?<br \/>\nJust call a load of numbers at the end of each hour, and hang up before anyone can say anything<br \/>\nIf you are working for a mortgage lender and monitored on sales?<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t worry if people can actually afford their mortgages, just sell it to them. You won&#8217;t be good at your job if you worry about things like that.<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height:1.5;\"><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ridiculous, but people still love using them. Even doctors\/GPs, nurses and the rest of the medical and pharmaceutical industry are given KPIs. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Would it be easier to monitor people more subjectively?<br \/>\nFor example, could a call-centre manager not just get off his\/her seat and actually make sure everyone was working, and listen to the calls perhaps, to make sure they are trying to do everything correctly? \u00a0Why can&#8217;t we report qualitatively, as well as quantitatively?<br \/>\nAnd how can people who don&#8217;t do the job, know what a fair target is?<\/p>\n<p>Martial arts is now a business for many. Which is a good in many ways, as we now have better facilities and more opportunity to train. It will be very sad if certain demographics ever get priced out of it though &#8211; if they can&#8217;t afford the monthly membership fees.<br \/>\nI hope we never see chains of MMA gyms either &#8211; with the dreaded sales KPIs that we see in some chains of fitness gyms.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><br \/>\nAmerican Marketing<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe bodybuilding-supplement marketing has to be the worst.<br \/>\nIf \u00a0you get chance, take a look at the film\/documentary Bigger, Faster, Stronger:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O77cVVOFqbE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the techniques the supplement industry use to sell you over priced &#8216;sports-nutrition&#8217; products include &#8211;<br \/>\nBefore and After Pictures; often photoshopped, always waxed and tanned in the after picture<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-822\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/beforeandafter.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"822\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/en\/mma-articles\/other\/how-pay-day-loans-capitalism-ruined-everything\/beforeandafter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/beforeandafter.jpg?fit=599%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"599,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BeforeandAfter\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Supplement marketing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Before and After Pics &amp;#8211; a fave of the supplement industry&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/beforeandafter.jpg?fit=599%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-822\" alt=\"Before and After\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackbeltwhitehat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/beforeandafter.jpg?resize=300%2C213\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before and After Pics &#8211; a fave of the supplement industry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BodyBuilder (clearly on steroids, HGH, insulin etc) endorsement<br \/>\nI remember seeing an advert in FLEX magazine for creatine endorsed by Jean Pierre Fux; I was confused when I finished the bottle and I was still only 12.5 stone.<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zgw97nQrbrw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clever Packaging &#8211; make it look like steroids<br \/>\nTo be fair, you can actually buy &#8216;designer steroids&#8217;\/prohormones online, or in many a high-street store; which are pretty much the same thing as steroids like those sold under the counter in bodybuilding gym.<br \/>\nBut most supplements are not, they are just tablets with a few herbs in. \u00a0Which won&#8217;t potentially kill you like steroids can, but won&#8217;t make your muscle big either.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m being too cynical, but it looks like I&#8217;m not the only one<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5FtR0YnvssM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an angry revolutionist or anything, I just wish money didn&#8217;t influence every sphere\/aspect of my life and corrupt the soul out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA and it&#8217;s relationship with money Bob Sapp &#8211; \u00a0Money before Pride &amp; Honour Bob Sapp, 6ft 3, 25 stone, formerly one of the best fighters in the world. 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