UFC pay vs Boxing

Would you believe that there are actually some UFC fans and a few company men like Chuck Liddell who defend this slave wage? It's awful, the UFC is monopoly and they keep most of the money, only paying out a tiny % to fighters.

 

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In fairness to Chuck, he lost millions in a bad land deal.

 

This issue isn't black and white.

 

I assume by this stage, his contract doesn't reflect his work but that is the contract he signed so they probably make up for it in bonuses.

 

Compare the MMA fighter's pay rate after twenty years of the sport to the one hundred and fifty years of boxing history and how long they took to rise to the mega-million dollar payday. MMA is moving faster.

 

Ssssshhhhhh!!! Don't get amongst the piranhas during a feeding frenzy!

 

Barao is also on an early contract and is an interim champ. Yeah MMA wages are low right now, but the marketplace is different in that sport, the sports and entertainment markets are incredibly saturated, the sport of MMA itself is barely a decade old in regulated form, and people like GSP, Anderson, and Bones are pushing the financial envelope. Gatorade, UnderArmour, and Nike are now in the sport with manybither blue-chip sponsors probing the market.

Haters are merely being myopic. Boxing established itself in the world's culture during a time when it was the big dog in the public entertainment pen. That influence was there when the world went mass-media with radio, broadcast television, and subscription cable/PPV. That lasting influence is why people in small gyms in Idaho ever heard names like Kallie Knoetze or why a pub in Glasgow has patrons discussing the merits/demerits of James Tillis's wide stance and Ali-style movements versus a Frazier-like demon from Catskill who also had a right hand. That's a helluva lot of ground you're expecting the UFC and MMA in general to make up in a scant 20 years.

The elite stars in MMA make big money, and it's getting better all the time. Compare apples to apples. Haters are either looking for reasons to justify their ingrained impression of MMA, or they have no concept of how boxing came to be so huge in the first place.

Pick up a book, haters.

 

LOL at you acting like you know ****, trolljob.

 

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Gene Tunney made a million dollar pay day in 1926. So MMA isn't moving faster.