Asked whether their new venture could prove more profitable than promotion, he responded: “There’s no risk here. This is the thing that’s pissed me off about managers for years in boxing. And now I am one in other sports. But I’ve not got to put my money on the line with Tom – millions on the line to do a show and invest in his career, giving him fights, paying for opponents, flying him in, flying him out. We’re just going to bring him in money, and we’re going to make money with him. And that’s what managers in boxing don’t really tend to understand. They come in; they forget the build. But the problem is in the UFC, the build, you know, everything is – again, I’m not going to go too deep into the purses. But I will say, when I talked through Tom Aspinall’s purses, I nearly fell off the fucking chair. Do you know what I mean? Because I know that if that was our business, he’d be making ten times as much money.
‘I’ve never felt so much love’
