Sponsoring an Olympic athlete in a title fight generally seems like a sound investment within the realm of MMA. Even if they lose, they’re still Olympians and worshipped everywhere they go. Rick Hawn is no exception. Dude is straight classy. Even when his sponsor stiffs him, he doesn’t give up the name of the deadbeat sponsor out of respect and hope that they’ll do the right thing. That’s way nicer than he needs to be. If it were most other fighters, they’d probably make sure that company got lit-up on social media and legal representatives from all angles.

The truth of the matter is, Rick Hawn and I are a team. Every time they show his highlight reel on television, I see my red Yankees hat sitting ringside photographing his famous Judo hip-toss. His success is important to me because I want to keep seeing myself on every Bellator broadcast from now until the sun melts the earth, so if Rick Hawn is annoyed by this situation, I am too. This is what Rick Hawn said about the ordeal on his official Facebook page.

So one of my main sponsors from my fight canceled his check cuz he wasnt happy with the outcome or my performance. Read his explanations below.

Its funny how all my pics wearing his product are still up on his company pages even after he says and does all this stuff!!

A lawsuit is pending so I cannot comment on who it is just yet but stay tuned.

In a nutshell, following his loss to Michael Chandler, Rick Hawn shared this response from one of his sponsors, and that’s all we know with regards to them stiffing him.

"At this point, a stop payment has been placed on check which cannot be cashed or deposited now”

"I will not comment on Rick and his fight. That is not my place. But what I will tell you is this: I took a huge chance with him. TV exposure was great…but it only holds weight if he wins or puts on a good show. Neither happened. At the end of the day…not one soul will run to [my] store and buy product because they [saw my logo and saw] Rick lose the fight. I've made it my career and business to know what nets a return on investment for the brand…and this is the number 1 reason why I DO NOT hand out money or product to fighters."

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+16 # cooley209 2013-01-22 11:01

Douche bags... just because your fighter loses doesn't mean your sponsorship was por nada. MMA fans know you win some, you lose some. I hope Rick gets his money.

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+11 # synthsis 2013-01-22 11:05

Pretty sure it's HTFU. It was his newest sponsor and Rick tweeted out a link the day before the fight. Dickbag CEO can't pay Hawn because he's not selling enough of his $50 Tshirt. Yes, you read that correctly. $50 Tshirts. Maybe he needs to HTFU and take care of his obligations.

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+10 # rippie74 2013-01-22 11:31

Quoting synthsis:

Pretty sure it's HTFU. It was his newest sponsor and Rick tweeted out a link the day before the fight. Dickbag CEO can't pay Hawn because he's not selling enough of his $50 Tshirt. Yes, you read that correctly. $50 Tshirts. Maybe he needs to HTFU and take care of his obligations.

On avg it costs around $4-6.00 for good quailty t-shirts to be printed. $50.00? lolz...

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+3 # maxx 2013-01-22 11:56

depends on how much they buy in bulk but in general $9 per shirt for 30 shirts.

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+11 # Sambro 2013-01-22 13:15

LOL! that retard CEO sponsors himself. what a douche[censored ]! And he names his company after a gay porn title: HTFU= "Harden The Fuck Up"

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+1 # Stinky Pete 2013-01-23 08:57

one of their fucking hoodies costs 108 dollars. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT FUCKING DOLLARS. where do you get off charging that much for trash?

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0 # Harden The Dick Up 2013-01-23 10:03

Harden the fuck up and pay the prices fool. Nothin is tougher than paying for overpriced print ones Gildan shirts

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+7 # i think we can 2013-01-22 11:09

all say its not FundaFighter, that would kind of go against their entire principal.

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+11 # lolatthistard 2013-01-22 11:14

Apparently this guy doesn't understand how this whole 'sponsor' thing works. He must not have a decent lawyer either. Apparently a mountain of negative publicity is way better than paying your athlete one time.

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+7 # moonmonster 2013-01-22 11:19

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum.posts&forum=1&thread=2120814&page=12

Seems to be HTFU

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-19 # UFC Fan 2013-01-22 11:46

Sponsoring Bellator fighters must cost what, 50 bucks? 100 tops? Pay the chump fighter his 50 bucks just to shut his mouth please til he joins the big leagues

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-1 # maxx 2013-01-22 11:57

lmfao 100 tops? riiiiighhhhtttt .

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+1 # synthsis 2013-01-22 12:47

Once confirmed it'd be nice if we had someone with interwebs skills to DDOS that stupid site right into oblivion. You take money from a fighter, we take money from you.

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+9 # Sambro 2013-01-22 13:48

LOL! The UG is tearing that CEO a new asshole. He's decided to pay up.

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+1 # w0rg 2013-01-22 13:50

The amount of bad publicity he's going to get is going to be way worse for his company than not paying Hawn his money. also
"Even when his sponsor stiffs him, he doesn’t give up the name of the deadbeat sponsor out of respect and hope that they’ll do the right thing."
he said it was because of a pending lawsuit actually lol

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+7 # Attention HTFU 2013-01-22 14:03

Remember the shit storm that hit an ESPN reporter who said he wouldn't want his son watching MMA because of the "homo erotic positions". Well congrats, you have officially joined his ranks. Expect an even bigger shit storm to ensue.

Here's something you should know about MMA and its fans. They are the most loyal and dedicated of any sport. You fuck with us or our fighters , we fuck bury you. Now have fun running your shitty brand that no one likes anymore.

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+13 # Bauzen 2013-01-22 14:22

Looks like the douche just issued a new check to Rick Hawn because of the barrage of personal threats he received since the MMA Media got ahold of this story.

Props to the internet for coming through for a fighter.

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+2 # grimsgrinded 2013-01-22 17:56

I hope this asshole gets sued for everything he's got...¡WAR HAWN!


p.s. A friend of Honda is a friend of mine.

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+1 # aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head 2013-01-23 07:42

Ha! and they had to pay for the stop payment on the check!

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