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This is it 100% big gyms, they pay coaches percentage or fees to train them.I worked in a gym with ufc fighters for four years and saw the marketing first hand. Also, one of my good friends I met there managed att in coconut creek and they have a ton of ufc fighters.
Fighters I’ve seen generally don’t pay the gym, they pay a trainer/training partners part of their purse or direct pay for the help. The gym paying fighters is very rare. That’s what the blackzillion model did (sponsored by Jaco I believe) and they tanked.
One common misconception in my experience is that ufc fighters attract memberships. It would blow your fucking mind how much that is not the case. The gym I worked at sold 2500 memberships while I was there and I interacted with every single one. There were two people that came as a result of fighters. As in, get, I came to meet/train under this guy. Literally two. Maybe two dozen knew who the fighters even were beforehand.
Most people who came to train mma were not die hard ufc fans, but became so after they started training. We joke about that with my friend all the time. People think that the average ufc groupie online would be your target market and it’s not the case at all.
It was fucking rare for someone to be a hardcore fan and to show up and want to train at either of those two gyms.
same gym for both Rampage and TJ, MusclepharmThat Denver squad with TJ he was payed to be there.
Rampage got a car + all camp expenses payed from such a gym at some point..
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2 little bitchescomparing ronda to Conor? CONOR went on to avenge the loss and become 2 weight champ and face floyd, ronda is a cry baby wannabe
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They usually train there for free and often teach some classes for compensation.
Big gyms run by name trainers usually take a percentage from their top fighters. GSP give Zarhabi say 10%. A fighter who teaches might get additional pay.
Scrubs without champ potential have to pay.
Some dudes with huge potential like Hendricks even get sponsored at the beginning of their career but then they have to pay like 50% from what they earn which leads to real heat and lawsuits.
I worked in a gym with ufc fighters for four years and saw the marketing first hand. Also, one of my good friends I met there managed att in coconut creek and they have a ton of ufc fighters.
Fighters I’ve seen generally don’t pay the gym, they pay a trainer/training partners part of their purse or direct pay for the help. The gym paying fighters is very rare. That’s what the blackzillion model did (sponsored by Jaco I believe) and they tanked.
One common misconception in my experience is that ufc fighters attract memberships. It would blow your fucking mind how much that is not the case. The gym I worked at sold 2500 memberships while I was there and I interacted with every single one. There were two people that came as a result of fighters. As in, get, I came to meet/train under this guy. Literally two. Maybe two dozen knew who the fighters even were beforehand.
Most people who came to train mma were not die hard ufc fans, but became so after they started training. We joke about that with my friend all the time. People think that the average ufc groupie online would be your target market and it’s not the case at all.
It was fucking rare for someone to be a hardcore fan and to show up and want to train at either of those two gyms.