The DREAM big stiffy strikes again

Gesias "JZ" Calvalcante is the most recent inductee to the "i havent got paid by DREAM for my last fight" club

http://www.examiner.com/mma-in-toledo/interview-with-strikeforce-lightweight-gesias-jz-cavalcante

BH: I know in a couple interviews you mentioned that you hadn’t been paid for your last fight against Kikuno. Has Dream finally stepped up and paid you?

JZ Cavalcante: No, I still haven’t been paid, man. The fight was in July and now we’re in February and now I don’t even care about it, you know? My manager keeps calling them and the guys from FEG who are supposed to say something they don’t answer the phones, they don’t reply. It’s really disappointing. I don’t know. There’s not much I can do. I hope I can get the money, they pay and I hope they get better. I hope they get some sponsors to support their events because it’s really disrespectful to the fighters.

I invest all my money in my career. Everything I do, I do for fights. That’s my priority in life, that’s what I do. That’s my work, that’s my job. Everything I do, I invest my money, I do my stuff, I have to set up camp, I have to eat good. All those things cost money and when you fight you need that money back, you know? I’m not upset like “oh, f*ck them!” but it’s the kind of thing that I wish they had more respect like they could come to me and say “look, we don’t have the money now but we gonna pay this time or that time” because that is the problem. When they don’t answer, they don’t reply, they don’t say anything. That’s really disrespectful. Maybe getting the news out will help.

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and another one...
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/2/16/1996953/mma-promoter-feg-owe-you-money-get-in-line-behind-alistair-overeem
"I won K-1...and they've not paid me yet," Overeem told Jon Anik with a smile. "By the contract they have 48 hours to pay me. It's a little bit of a question mark."

Sengoku won't be the only promotion losins fighters at this rate.

Man Dream is about to lose all my support. I wish they wouldn't suck but they do. Fighters need to ask for their money to show upfront. And if they deny, deny them and watch them sink even faster

and another one...
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/2/16/1996953/mma-promoter-feg-owe-you-money-get-in-line-behind-alistair-overeem
"I won K-1...and they've not paid me yet," Overeem told Jon Anik with a smile. "By the contract they have 48 hours to pay me. It's a little bit of a question mark."

why even fight for them? i mean, really?

killerofchicken wrote:

why even fight for them? i mean, really?

That's what I'm saying everyone should just say fuck them. I bet the japanese fighters get paid.

i doubt it, they just dont have anyone to speak for them like these guys do

The Japanese guys probably know how to get the money through legal proceedings and all that because they live in Japan, so FEG probably does not bother stiffing them though i don't know how it works there. When these outsiders like Americans, Brazilians, Canadians, Europeans get stiffed, the best they can do is keep calling and hope to get a call back because that is how every story of the big stiffy has gone.

KingsOwn19 wrote:

The Japanese guys probably know how to get the money through legal proceedings and all that because they live in Japan, so FEG probably does not bother stiffing them though i don't know how it works there. When these outsiders like Americans, Brazilians, Canadians, Europeans get stiffed, the best they can do is keep calling and hope to get a call back because that is how every story of the big stiffy has gone.

That or they are more easily accessible to the Yakuza.

They are dead. They may put together another fight or two, but unless someone with big money invest, they will go under by the end of the year.

Andrew the Raider King wrote:

They are dead. They may put together another fight or two, but unless someone with big money invest, they will go under by the end of the year.

Looking to add another name to your tombstone Dana? Don't get too excited, I think DREAM will be around longer then you think.

We need a top ten list of Fighters who haven't been paid in Japan lately.