To John Fosco, the UFC’s sponsor tax and pop of MMA’s “bubble” is old news. That’s why the longtime MMA manager is fuming about a story on crowd-funding for MMA , telling MMAjunkie that the push toward sites like FundaFighter is not motivated by a stagnant market, but lazy managers. The way he sees it, athletes should be under the care of representatives who never put them in the position to ask the general public for money. “No one is saying, ‘This is the landscape – You have to adapt, you have to change, and you have to find a way,’” said Fosco, who reps such UFC fighters as Travis Browne, Clay Guida and Derek Brunson.
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Manager takes on peers over sponsorship market woes – MMA Junkie