And we’re not - it’s not even on the table for discussion really.” If they’re using their face and their likeness and their name, they’re gonna be compensated for it. “Across every single other sport, whether it’s NFL, NBA, MLB, those athletes that are in that game are making money. “I don’t understand how we’re supposed to be such a forward-thinking society, how we’re OK with a giant corporation exploiting the people like this. Fighters deserve to get paid to have their likeness featured in a video game. He feels that what the promotion is doing isn’t right. Johnson wants to take a stand against the UFC. And because of that, he made more money from EA Sports UFC 3 than nearly all other fighters (a few other fighters did motion capture, too, per Johnson). Ironically, Johnson helped with the game at EA Sports headquarters in Vancouver – he did motion capture for many characters. Johnson isn’t in the video game – and until fighter compensation is introduced, he is happy about that. With EA Sports UFC 3 released last week, UFC lightweight Kajan Johnson is here to remind us of the sad truth: fighters don’t get paid to be in the game.
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