February 1, 2010, at 2:35 am
Jay Hieron is a free agent. After all that Strikeforce has put him through, I can’t see him staying aboard without a huge raise. MMA Weekly interviewed his agent, and it sounds like he is pretty fed up too.
Now officially a free agent able to negotiate a new contract, Hieron’s agent, Ken Pavia from MMA Agents, clarified the timeline for his client’s next deal.
“He has an exclusive negotiating period with Strikeforce, but beyond that he is, he has no more fights left on his deal,” said Pavia in an interview with MMAWeekly.com on Sunday. “There’s an exclusive negotiating period, and then there’s also a right to match, which is pretty standard in the industry at this point.”
“That being said, he’s not unhappy with Strikeforce. I mean he’s unhappy he hasn’t made television and it affects his sponsorship money. He’s unhappy that he didn’t get to fight for the title shot, but we also recognize that it’s not all Strikeforce’s fault. There are a lot of different issues that come into play, so it’s not to say we wouldn’t have issues if we were in the UFC, or with a Japanese organization.”
Pavia is an agent. I have a friend who is a lawyer and aspires to be an agent, and he sounds an awful lot like Pavia. And also a bit like an asshole when he argues against everything anyone ever says, but that’s between me and him. (Hi Dave!) They want to sound annoyed without burning any bridges. Burning bridges is bad business. I get that.
If you are Jay Hieron, I just can’t imagine being happy. Imagine you work for a company that promised you all these things when you signed on, and then they just decided not to come through with it. Would you stay on, or would you leave the first chance you got?
I thought so.
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