what he said

Are you serious? So because the UFC itself is a huge name and serves as a platform for sponsors that is an excuse for the horrendously low purses? I'm not comparing them to other MMA organizations but like White himself does, to boxing or other sporting leagues.

I'm sorry but I can not see how anyone can defend these absurdly low payrolls like a 1 million dollar payroll for a PPV event (Evans vs Griffin I think) and defend that. It's ridiculous they are taking in so much money and signing fighters exclusive contracts, limiting the number of times they can fight a year and not even pay them enough to realistically support a family full time. That isn't going to grow the sport if all the money the fighters get comes from sponsorship.

Top Rank compensates their fighters 10 times better then Dana White does.

Amat what is not disclosed is what sponsors pay each fighter when they fight. Lots of these sponsors are procurred through the UFC.

The truth is, UFC need Fedor, they just have average fighters compared to Fedor.
but on the other hand, Fedor needs UFC also, what is he going to do after Overeem (which, imo will blast Briock in one round) and Jeff Moonson ?

but don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that for Brock, but against a man like Mir, Noguiera, Cain Velasquez, it can be interesting.

BTW, just to refresh memories, Fedor was meant to fight Barnett, who is really the number 2 nowadays...so it's not like if he was fighting tomato cans. Brock is far from the level of Barnett.

It would be great to see Strikeforce and UFC making a special edition joined together so we can have a mega-event and see who is the ultimate HW champion....That would be awesome but I really doubt that Zubba would agree on anything like that, unfortunately.

Originally Posted by amat

Are you serious? So because the UFC itself is a huge name and serves as a platform for sponsors that is an excuse for the horrendously low purses? I'm not comparing them to other MMA organizations but like White himself does, to boxing or other sporting leagues.

I'm sorry but I can not see how anyone can defend these absurdly low payrolls like a 1 million dollar payroll for a PPV event (Evans vs Griffin I think) and defend that. It's ridiculous they are taking in so much money and signing fighters exclusive contracts, limiting the number of times they can fight a year and not even pay them enough to realistically support a family full time. That isn't going to grow the sport if all the money the fighters get comes from sponsorship.

Top Rank compensates their fighters 10 times better then Dana White does.

Well good let them sign with Strikeforce for a few extra bucks and then be out of a job in 6 months.. You make it sound like they are working for $10 an hour at a drive thru.

I can also guarantee the UFC looks after their fighters better than any boxing promoter looks after theirs. The UFC has a real good thing going right now and arent ridiculously inflated like everyother sport in the world.. If your telling me they cant support a family with those amounts. I'm telling you to put down the pipe.

UFC 100 fighters salaries: Lesnar and St-Pierre get top paydays in $1.8 million payroll | MMAjunkie.com

Those figures didnt look awful to me especially for the elite fighters. Sure its not a DLH or Mayweather Pac type pay day but its nothing to sneeze at, not to mention there are plenty of B class fighters that have to have a regular job unless they hit the big time

While I agree with many of you, that many of White's comments regarding Fedor are simply to pull the wool over some people's eyes, I do believe he is correct in stating that the best fighters are in the UFC. While lately I believe the UFC is becoming watered down (should fighters really be signed because they are entertaining over efficient? IMO this just opens the sport to brawlers who are tough, and discourages a lot of talent) I believe the top fighters are still in the UFC. Proof of this is the difficulty that fighters who come from other associations are having. At UFC 101, I believe it was, the Japanese K1 fighter who won a shocking split decision (or was it unanimous) said before hand that the fighters were much bigger in their division due to weight cuts, and he wasn't sure how well he would do, even though he had dominated in K1.

Anyway, too bad Fedor didn't get to come to the UFC, and shame on him and Dana for not being able to come to SOME kind of agreement so that fight fans could see some potentially great bouts.

1.85 total payroll for UFC 100, the biggest event of the UFC year, and you somehow think that's at all right? Could you imagine if 2 boxers fought and got over a million PPV buys, and they split a 1.85 million dollar pot with 8 other fighters on the card. No way it's not fair where are those millions and millions of dollars that's not going to the fighters going? Really now, any fight fan should be wanting more money for the fighters and really, for how much hype that fight got, 400 thousand for Lesnar and 45K for Mir? Seriously, 45 thousand? I don't care how much sponsors give him he should get a waaaaay better payout then that.

400K is like what Berto got for fighting Collazo maybe even less.

Originally Posted by amat

1.85 total payroll for UFC 100, the biggest event of the UFC year, and you somehow think that's at all right? Could you imagine if 2 boxers fought and got over a million PPV buys, and they split a 1.85 million dollar pot with 8 other fighters on the card. No way it's not fair where are those millions and millions of dollars that's not going to the fighters going? Really now, any fight fan should be wanting more money for the fighters and really, for how much hype that fight got, 400 thousand for Lesnar and 45K for Mir? Seriously, 45 thousand? I don't care how much sponsors give him he should get a waaaaay better payout then that.

400K is like what Berto got for fighting Collazo maybe even less.

It is what it is dude, whether you like it or not... I dont hear those guys crying poverty one bit. What I do see is a company that has managed to dominate the promotion of a sport to the point that no one else can even sniff the success they enjoy.