UFC remains king of PPV hill

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The problem with comparing money from boxing and mma is you are using the superstars of the sport.

You take a guy in ufc that's just a contender, nothing special and compare him to a light weight guy that fights on undercards, or friday night fights.

What you'll find is guys is ufc on average do better than average boxers.

The top paid boxers are way above ufc, but it's more like baseball or football being that they belong to a league and the lowest paid guy is better off than the lowest paid boxer. You don't get nearly the same highs and lows as boxing has. Most boxers don't make enough to earn a living. Only the top level and even then lots of them don't hit the million mark.

Were talking about PPV though. Basically the top guys and the guys you pay to see. Not FNF. The average PPV payroll for boxing is in the millions. For UFC, the average payroll is hardly even a tenth of a boxing PPV payroll. But even the FNF boxers get what a lot of UFC top fighters get. My friend Marcos Ramirez was a constant ESPN2 fighter and he was getting $20,000 to $50,000 on his televised fights. And the average UFC fighter is not like an average MMA fighter. UFC fighters are picked and signed and they are above average MMA fighters. Many of the UFC fighters get that range or less than that and only a few get more. But I do have some friends in MMA and the bottom level MMA fighters do usually get more than the bottom level boxers.