Sylvester Stallone Says Conor McGregor Deserves A Stake In UFC, Offers To Give Him Some Of His Shares

ByJoseph Gibsonon May 15, 2019inArticles›Celebrity News

Conor McGregor has been, well, fighting for an equity stake in UFC for years now. It’s coming up again thanks to buzz that McGregor might come out of his short-lived retirement from mixed martial arts to fight with UFC, and at least one famous UFC shareholder agrees that the fighter deserves a stake: Sylvester Stallone .

Stallone was recently asked by a TMZ reporter whether McGregor deserves the stake he’s been pushing for, a stake that UFC owner Dana White has said McGregor would have to buy with his own money rather than receiving it as part of a pay package. Stallone reached a different conclusion, saying McGregor “absolutely” deserves some shares, and even went so far as to say he would give the fighter some of his own.

Whether that will actually happen, not to mention whether Stallone’s shares would be enough to entice McGregor back to UFC, remains to be seen. But Stallone’s offer remains a more peaceful solution to the dilemma than McGregor’s recent challenge to actor (or as McGregor put it, “actress”) Mark Wahlberg to fight over his own UFC shares, or a similar challenge in response to a joke from comedian Conan O’Brien to fight him on the same night (Wahlberg and O’Brien are both, like Stallone, shareholders in UFC).

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As humorous as challenging actors or comedians for their UFC shares may be, McGregor is still clearly serious about his desire to be compensated for his services with a stake in the company. He first reportedly pushed for a stake back in 2016, and has reiterated this demand as recently as March, when he also announced his surprise retirement from MMA. This is a dealbreaker for UFC President Dana White, though, he recently spoke on the subject in an interview with Las Vegas’s CBS 8 News Now:

“He’s stuck on this thing where he wants a piece of the ownership and if you look at basketball, Michael Jordan didn’t own a piece of the league .”

But White also seems confident that he can bring McGregor back into the fold anyway, also saying that “I think there’s other ways that we can make him happy.”

And even if not, there’s always Sylvester Stallone.

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Sylvester Stallone Is Putting His $6 Million Watch Collection Up For Auction Next Month

ByJoseph Gibsonon May 20, 2024inArticles›Celebrity News

One of the most notable watch collectors in the world is film star Sylvester Stallone , who has been a star in the watch world as well for much of his career. Now, Stallone and the Sotheby’s auction house are bringing his one-of-a-kind collection of timepieces to the auction block next month, and together, they’re estimated to be worth some $6 million.

That’s an especially high sum when you realize that the part of his collection that Stallone is parting with is only made up of 11 watches all in all. The crown jewel of the collection is undoubtedly Stallone’s Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime, one of the rarest and most expensive watches ever made. Another Grandmaster Chime set the record for the most expensive watch of all time when it sold for $31 million, and Stallone’s own Chime cost $2.5 million. Analysts reportedly expect the watch to sell for somewhere between that sum and $5 million at the auction, but Stallone’s celebrity, as well as the rarity of a Grandmaster Chime being on the auction block in the first place (this will be the first time such a piece has been up for commercial, non-charitable bidding), could push the price significantly higher.

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This is a watch so rare and so valuable that Stallone has never even taken it out of its box, let alone put it on. He speaks extensively on the Grandmaster Chime as well as the other watches in his collection in a video on the Sotheby’s YouTube channel:

“The one thing that is pervasive throughout all these watches is that they attract me emotionally. It’s not about keeping time, it’s about keeping in step with where you are in life,” Stallone told Sotheby’s. In addition to the Grandmaster Chime, Stallone is also selling two other Patek Philippe pieces: a Nautilus reference 5711/1300A-001 from 2021 said to be worth anywhere from $200,000 to $400,000, and another Nautilus worth a mere $50,000-$100,000.

Stallone is also letting go of four watches from Panerai, a brand he has been enthusiastic about not just collecting but promoting in public and even in his movies. The Panerai Reference PAM00382 Luminor Submersible 1950 going up for auction was featured in “The Expendables 2,” and the winning bidder will also receive a signed poster for the movie. Budget-conscious watch collectors may be interested in Stallone’s gold Piaget Polo Grande, the cheapest watch in the collection, with an estimated value range between $6,000 and $12,000.

The auction is set to commence on June 5th, 2024.

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