Originally Posted by
Mattyhitman
Originally Posted by
Nameless
Originally Posted by
Lance Uppercut
Last week's Lesner vs Carwin fight had been referred to as the biggest MMA fight ever.
Lesner earned $475,000
Carwin earned $ 40,000
It's funny when you compare this to De La Hoya vs Maywhether
ODLH earned approx $66,000,000
Maywhether earned approx $44,000,000
... Really??
If it's true, it's really nothing, especially if you consider that MMA fighters have often up to 4-5 different coaches they do work with..
Many factors in this tbf.
MMA is not as popular as boxing therefor the PPV numbers are not going to be as high, plus UFC is free for UK viewers if you have ESPN, never had to pay for a UFC card yet. Dana White loves money and pays peanuts compared to big time boxers. Also consider the amount of top bouts that are on a UFC fight card compared to a main event boxing card.
Dana can get away with paying what he feels the fighters are worth as UFC has the highest global appeal. Most MMA fighters see the UFC as the pinnacle of cage fighting and thats where they want to compete ( bar a few names ) so they will take whats on offer more than not.
Personally i never forsee MMA fighters ever getting as much as the likes of the De La Hoya's of the this world.
Has nothing to do with Dana White...Has to do with the whole Payroll comes off the UFC and no one else....If they were paying fighters $3,000,000 a bout they would go broke...Take how many fighters they have....Take how many elite fighters exist in the UFC
which is about 80% because they are the best of the best in MMA every fighter espires to make it there and get a contract.....
In boxing the purses to be paid are split between promoters one guy does not pay it all....
On the other hand in MMA lets say Brock made 475,000...plus his sponsor payments, plus other sponsorship payments, plus PA fees....he made jst abt a cool million for the fight.......MMA fighters don't pay the high training camp feesw regular fighters do they train with the guys they train with every day...They dont pay every guy they train with...these guys spend gym time together upcoming fight or not......
One day the purses will be bigger right now just not possible.......
As for Dana White as much as he likes money he knows he cant make money withoput the fighters....The fighters will walk to Japan ASAP if they feel fucked and Dana will be AOL......
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