Misfit
01-25-2010, 04:46 AM
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Let’s say you get $100,000 for a fight, or more likely like $40,000. 20%-30% percent goes to taxes, 10% goes to your manager, another 20% is for expenses like food, traveling, sparring partners, etc. After that you don’t have nothing. It’s really hard. I did ten fights in ten months [in 2005-2006] before to make enough money but I’m not able to do that anymore with the fighters out there. There are a lot of great fighters from a lot of great camps. I think as I retire I’m going to do a lot for MMA still. I love MMA so of course I can’t be far away from fighting. I’m just not going to be fighting anymore.
After your fight with Sean Sherk for the UFC lightweight title in July of 2007, you both tested positive for having steroids in your system. After that, you confessed right away to using steroids during your training camp to try and help you heal from an injury. Sean Sherk denied it, and continues to deny it to this day. You were both given year-long suspensions but Sherk’s suspension was later reduced after an appeal. Do you ever regret confessing and being honest like that after seeing how they handled the situation?
To tell the truth, I don’t regret the things I did in my life. I do regret and get pissed over the things I never did in life. But I did a lot of things in life and I have no regrets because I believe that everything happens for a reason. I do believe it changed my life for the better. I want to be professional. I can’t go to the past, the future takes care of itself, the only thing you can control is the present. My life is an open book. I have no secrets. I am who I am. I’m a personable guy and have had good moments in the UFC, bad moments, been happy and sad. I think that’s life. When I go to bed I put my head on the pillow and can rest because I have nothing to hide.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/24/12 ... -talks-mma (http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/24/1268159/a-retiring-hermes-franca-talks-mma)
Let’s say you get $100,000 for a fight, or more likely like $40,000. 20%-30% percent goes to taxes, 10% goes to your manager, another 20% is for expenses like food, traveling, sparring partners, etc. After that you don’t have nothing. It’s really hard. I did ten fights in ten months [in 2005-2006] before to make enough money but I’m not able to do that anymore with the fighters out there. There are a lot of great fighters from a lot of great camps. I think as I retire I’m going to do a lot for MMA still. I love MMA so of course I can’t be far away from fighting. I’m just not going to be fighting anymore.
After your fight with Sean Sherk for the UFC lightweight title in July of 2007, you both tested positive for having steroids in your system. After that, you confessed right away to using steroids during your training camp to try and help you heal from an injury. Sean Sherk denied it, and continues to deny it to this day. You were both given year-long suspensions but Sherk’s suspension was later reduced after an appeal. Do you ever regret confessing and being honest like that after seeing how they handled the situation?
To tell the truth, I don’t regret the things I did in my life. I do regret and get pissed over the things I never did in life. But I did a lot of things in life and I have no regrets because I believe that everything happens for a reason. I do believe it changed my life for the better. I want to be professional. I can’t go to the past, the future takes care of itself, the only thing you can control is the present. My life is an open book. I have no secrets. I am who I am. I’m a personable guy and have had good moments in the UFC, bad moments, been happy and sad. I think that’s life. When I go to bed I put my head on the pillow and can rest because I have nothing to hide.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/24/12 ... -talks-mma (http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/24/1268159/a-retiring-hermes-franca-talks-mma)