I'm 32 buddy. Anyway - again Barboza was not a world champion.
"Hypothetical strawman fallacy"??? Huh?? How can I strawman my OWN position? A completely incoherent sentence. Unless you're just trying to troll.
Paid vs offered are two entirely different things. The reality is that the UFC was paying their heavyweight champion pennies compared to the revenue he brought in. He was paid 600k to dethrone Stipe. Meanwhile, undercard non-world champion no-name boxers like Arnold Barboza Jr. are getting fight purses in his same range. That is fucking criminal.
Also dude, you took the "20x" statement WAY too literal. It was meant to be exaggerated hyperbole. 10x would probably be closer to the reality.
In his last UFC fight, the UFC again paid Francis 600k. Meanwhile, Kambosos was paid 5 million to fight Lomachenko. Kambosos was paid 8.3x what Francis was paid in his final UFC fight, despite Francis being many, many, many times more famous than George is.
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Again, this is fucking criminal. In his first boxing match, Francis was paid 10 million. That's 16.6x what he got in his final UFC fight.
You can't just stand on the hill of what was reportedly offered to Francis. The reality that actually came into existence, is that Francis' biggest ever fight purse from the UFC was 600k. They were paying their heavyweight champion of the world six fucking figures! And they pay all of their champions like that. Francis wasn't a one-off anomaly. All of the UFC champs get paid like that. Yes, at least champions get PPV points to make up for it, but we don't know the details of how that works in the UFC and I'm willing to bet the PPV revenue split is dogshit compared to what top boxers get.
In the case of Demetrious Johnson,
arguably the best fucking MMA fighter of all time, they wouldn't even give him PPV points!!! Criminal, criminal, criminal, disgusting criminal scumfuck behavior dude. Imagine becoming a world champion fighter, having an all-time record setting run that gets the fight world talking about you as the possible greatest ever, and you don't even get PPV points and they pay you a $350k fight purse
I don't even know how DJ keeps such a positive and healthy mindset about his UFC tenure and in general. I would be so god damn jaded and hateful for the world if I went through what DJ did.
Actually, a TON of people on this forum do argue against it.
Great, then we're 100% in agreement on all of this stuff. If you recognize the greed of the UFC, and you recognize that they're underpaying their fighters, then why are you going to bat for them in this thread? That's where this whole exchange started - with me replying to you going to bat for the UFC over fighter pay.
Sweet, you were able to find at least one example to answer my question - a fading former heavyweight world champion with decades at the top of the sport, is getting paid what literal no-name undercard boxers are getting paid. Meanwhile in boxing, fading former heavyweight world champions still get paid millions of dollars.
We've all seen and/or heard about the numbers re: the revenue split in boxing and the UFC. It isn't even arguable that boxing pays fighters much more of the revenue that
they generate.