Fighters are extremely lucky to get paid what they do

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Everyone acts like the fighters are so underpaid. But they're so lucky to be paid what they are.

Look at other major sports.

An NFL player is on at least 16 cards per year and up to like 4 playoff games and a super bowl. All generate higher ratings than the UFC.

An NBA player does way more games than that. A baseball player does like 100 games.

A UFC fighter does like 2 games a year and generates worse ratings than syndicated sitcom reruns. So no fucking shit they don't make as much money.

They're lucky to have PPV right now. If the PPV model keeps going all to TV like it seems to be then even champions will only be generating like 2 shitty TV ratings a year.
 
Yeah because you can fight every week like they do in other sports.
 
They get a smaller percentage of the revenue and don't have nearly as much support after they retire. How lucky!
 
You are extremely lucky to still have your account after posting shitty thread like this.
 
To be fair it's only a small amount who complain about this and it really is how you use your platform too.

I'm not saying I'm against the fighters campaigning for more pay if they feel it (absolutely they should!) but it's also down to supply and demand too, Masvidal right now for example is getting paid good money (and rightly so) more so than Colby because people want to see Masvidal more now, people forget business is about supply and demand mainly.

Also, the UFC give you the platform to make a name for yourself and if you can do this you can use that in other ventures (IE Gyms, Products, Merchandise, Sponsors etc..) off the name you make in the UFC, so if you're clever enough to do this (which many are) then kudos to you.

Fighters know before signing a contract about the pay, it's not something we don't really not hear about and to be fair we honestly don't really know what they are actually paid, just what we hear (which is probably not accurate).

And before anyone goes on a rant in regards to this, I'm not saying they shouldn't ask for more money when they feel this and when/if they are being underpaid (they 100% should do) but it really is only a small amount of fighters on a whole who complain about this as you see many fighters who have been with the company YEARS continuing to sign and never complaining, so that should say something in itself also.

But yes Dana, turn off your alt account :D

 
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NoBiasJustMMA said:
They get a smaller percentage of the revenue and don't have nearly as much support after they retire. How lucky!
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So form a union, protest, walk away and let replacements play, like all the other sports did or stop crying
 
Hellowhosthat said:
Yeah because you can fight every week like they do in other sports.
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The entire point is that fighters don't bring in TV revenue every week like they do in other sports. A fighter brings in TV revenue twice a year.
 
superpunch said:
Look at a rerun of Seinfeld and make the ratings worse. Then take a character that's in the episode for 4 minutes like one of Jerry's girlfriends, divide that in half because there's 2 guys in the fight, and that's the money being brought in by a UFC fighter on TV. They do that maybe 2 times a year. Frankly they're making bank for that.
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That analogy might make sense if the same top fighters were on every single card year after year. That's physically impossible.
 
superpunch said:
Everyone acts like the fighters are so underpaid. But they're so lucky to be paid what they are.

Look at other major sports.

An NFL player is on at least 16 cards per year and up to like 4 playoff games and a super bowl. All generate higher ratings than the UFC.

An NBA player does way more games than that. A baseball player does like 100 games.

A UFC fighter does like 2 games a year and generates worse ratings than syndicated sitcom reruns. So no fucking shit they don't make as much money.

They're lucky to have PPV right now. If the PPV model keeps going all to TV like it seems to be then even champions will only be generating like 2 shitty TV ratings a year.
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MMA Is harder...and cant be done everyweek like ball sports..lol
No1s saying UFC fighters should make NFL or NBA contracts
But they should defiantly be making way more then they are.

Ball teams have huge support systems and sponsorships behind them..

Even just let UFC fighters have sponsors again and stop rebok would be HUGE
 
Paolo Delutis said:
They need to get that shit out of there..its killing growth for both the UFC and its fighters..

Fighters would make way more money without rebok..
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Yeah, that's what I meant about my post about with using the platform but if the UFC restrict this because of Reebok deals that's shitty.
 
D 1 Wrestler said:
So form a union, protest, walk away and let replacements play, like all the other sports did or stop crying
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Those other sports are team sports. A team can have dozens of players on a team when you add practice teams and staff. If they don't go out it hurts not just the arena and team owner but all of the creditors and has a serious impact on the divisions since there aren't that many of them.

Boxing and MMA are individual sports where everybody is set against everybody. The last time they really tried this the UFC literally paid everybody off. The only other time they tried it both fighters were sent packing.
 
The pay system needs a complete overhaul.

I propose a new system of Dana entering the Octagon after every fight and throwing a few hundred dollars in the air for the winner, they have 10 seconds to grab as much as they can and the loser gets a couple of tins of dog food or something.
 
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