Media Francis Ngannou has made $30 million from two boxing matches. He only made $3.5 million from 14 UFC fights in 7 years!

[Ballsaque]

He essentially played MMA and used it as a springboard to pimp out MMA and his legacy for a couple of boxing handouts.

He has now made MMA the punchline of every meme this week… congrats Frankie

Youre right, he won the game.

 

[JakePaulMMA]

He essentially played MMA and used it as a springboard to pimp out MMA and his legacy for a couple of boxing handouts.

He has now made MMA the punchline of every meme this week… congrats Frankie

New meme: Frank Face

 

[zuffazombee]

...& Francis wouldn't have made a fraction of that $30M if he'd never fought in the UFC. This is such a stupid comparison.

Floyd Mayweather was only paid $150k for his 18th fight (1st title win) & didn't earn his first $1M purse until his 25th (6th title defense).

Had Ngannou never fought in the UFC, he'd still be working his way up the boxing ladder & never would've sniffed $30M.

 

[checktheknuckles]

 

[Busgosu]

He fumbled the bag!!

 

[bjjwar]

Yeah but mma is easy, so why would they pay him millions just to fight some fat lazy dudes who don't even train?He deserved more for boxing, dude is risking his life over there. Just lost 30 yrs of his lifetime after getting obliterated and KO'd like that.

 

[Neck&Neck]

Never heard of this guy
Sounds difficult to work with though

 

[Brueskie]

He doesn't need more money. He has already made more money in a few months than most people ever make in their lives. Retire. Cut ties with the entourage before they bleed him dry. And live a modest and low key lifestyle. Invest some of that money into starting a business. Buy some land. Buy some property. In any case, you would be amazed how fast ten plus millions of dollars can go up in thin air if you are not smart with it

All that is what he should do, but fighters typically aren't known for their financial sense. I'm not sure Ngannou would settle for a modest lifestyle, because he seems to have developed a taste for the bling-bling.

 

[daniel san]

I'm sorry but how is it even remotely possible to compare his old UFC contract with a new contract? Would Ngannou have been paid $30 million to fight Fury and Joshua if he didn't build his career in the UFC? Wasn't Ngannou offered $20 million to lose to Jones but at least not get brain damage?

I don't like the capitalist ways of the UFC but I'm also not an idiot who can't see the bigger picture. We'll see how the rest of Ngannou's fights play out - he's probably done in boxing or at the very least done with big paydays, and fighting MMA in PFL surely won't pay a lot. I think regardless, Ngannou has been lucky that he in the end had two great career paths that would have paid him well - knocking out fat guys in the UFC and then losing to pillow punching Jones, or do boxing and fight some cans in PFL. I don't know what would have turned out the best, but perhaps avoid getting KTFO by Joshua would have been preferable.

 

[AdamWarlock]

ufc fighters should pay the same percentage boxing does.

 

[orca]

congrats for the big pay

ive seen post like these
to hide how awful a boxer he truly is
lol

those 2 fights where a scam
hes only a pawn made by fury

btw no businessman would pay him that money
unless the arabs

 

[Tweak896]

Boxing has been very funky. Besides the unlimited Middle East money which promotes their location, the US side of boxing has been shutting down because it's a horrible business model. The boxers are asking more than what is worth it to sell a fight for. Not to mention it's only the top guys taking the lion share while the undercard is paid scraps. If UFC followed boxing they would go bankrupt, unless the Saudis stepped in to fund UFC at a loss to promote.

 

[shh]

And about 60 million dead brain cells.

 

[Gluhov]

And now his career is over. Hes getting KOd again

 

[mjfan23]

He’s set for life. He played the money game better than anyone expected him too. And he made a mockery of ufc pay days along the way. Hopefully his actions made pay a little more equitable for others

 

[mjfan23]

And now his career is over. Hes getting KOd again

If it’s over how will he get KOd again?

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

He’s set for life. He played the money game better than anyone expected him too. And he made a mockery of ufc pay days along the way. Hopefully his actions made pay a little more equitable for others

how would his actions help the others? if anything the UFC is going to comb over their contracts and find a loophole to squeeze fighters even tighter now that they see they lost money on not resigning Francis and letting him box. people are acting like Francis didn't want to have anything to do with the UFC and left because he wanted to. he left because they wouldn't let him box, if they let him box he'd still be in the UFC.

 

[PooInYourCereal]

Retire. Cut ties with the entourage before he blows all his money. And disappear. Live a modest and low key life. And invest some of that money into a modest, low key and stable business for his and his family's future.

That is what he should do now. Anybody telling him otherwise is pigheaded at best...malicious at worst

I agree the retiring is the move but it's a bit extreme to say he should exit the space entirely. He sits on the Fighter Board at PFL, and the moves he has made business wise can be a catalyst to getting fighters greater contractual freedoms. He should remain in the MMA industry on the business side and act as the face for better fighter pay and contractual freedom.

 

[PooInYourCereal]

how would his actions help the others? if anything the UFC is going to comb over their contracts and find a loophole to squeeze fighters even tighter now that they see they lost money on not resigning Francis and letting him box. people are acting like Francis didn't want to have anything to do with the UFC and left because he wanted to. he left because they wouldn't let him box, if they let him box he'd still be in the UFC.

It's very reductive to say he didn't leave because he wanted to then say he left because he wanted to box, and they wouldn't let him. Francis has outlined this multiple times (better detailed than I could) but generally he left for 1) Fighter contractual freedom regarding fighting in other organizations/sports, 2) Better pay. 3) Better contract terms for fighters regarding sponsorships. 4) Better healthcare guarantees for fighters short and long term. 5) Giving fighters greater representation in the conversations at the highest level of promotions.

 

[Dogpound2020]

Good on him. It’s called prizefighting for a reason.