http://mmapayout.com/2009/07/more-on-the-ufcs-ea-mma-ban-sponsor-tax/ The UFC is now charging prospective sponsors a $100,000 fee for the right to sponsor fighters that appear on UFC broadcasts for a six month period. This eliminates all the small-time sponsors because they may be able to pay $1,000 to a fighter but they arent paying $100,000 to UFC for the right to pay $1,000 to a fighter. The ones hurt the worst are the low-end guys who are struggling to make it on prelim money contracts. It also lessens the amount of money going to the fighters, because the $200,000 per year going to UFC as a licensing fee means perhaps $200,000, but certainly significantly less, going directly to the fighters. UFC fighters in some cases earn more money through outside sponsorship than their UFC pay, although one manager estimated that for all but the top fighters, it would probably average about 40% of their income from a fight is coming from sponsors. But this is going to cut it back heavily, and with the exception of the top fighters, most in UFC are struggling, and even those who arent for the most part are going to have short-lived careers and many are going to have significant medical bills after their careers are over.
A bit of a dumb question I'm sure but are they actually in the **** financially, planning to distribute that money more evenly amongst fighters or just a bunch of ****s?
Dana's a ****. The UFC are a billion dollar company. There not short of a buck. They just dont like to spread the wealth.
The only way to stop this is to break the UFC's monopoly. It's going to take several of the big name fighters leaving at once and starting another org on PPV in order to break ZUFFA's hold on MMA in the US.
Haha I thought they might be a bit short with that wentz lad who really does hate the UFC saying they were financially in trouble. So how come no-one has come along prepared to pay the fighters a fair share and not screw them and attracted big names away from the UFC? I know there are a lot of quality guys who don't fight for them but I'd have thought eventually a company would come along who offered fighters more money and forced the UFC to treat them fairly or lose their stars.
The time is coming that this will happen. Just one or two big money matches will lure top talent away when they get boxing-like purses.
Why do people continue to ignore the awful salaries the UFC pays the majority of its fighters? They are beyond greedy. This is getting comical. Now the guy that was making 20k a fight plus 20k in sponsorships is most likely now going to make 25k total if he is lucky. This is disgusting.
Because no one has a rich benefactor willing to plow millions of there wealth into a startup organisation as Zuffa did in the early days when the UFC nearly went to the wall. Affliction though are in bed with Golden Boy and Trump so who knows.
