McGregor blocking fighters from getting a cut on his ppvs ....

Heh.
And then retard Mcsuckers will try to claim COnor helps MMA fighters get paid more...
Somehow in their (obviously not fully working) brains, it makes sense.

Anyone who fights Conor gets the biggest payday of their career by far.

Anyone who fights on his card gets more eyeballs on them than at any other time, they put on a show it's good for their future's.

Conor growing the UFC is good for everyone.
 
My dudes. To all of you who can't math very well, I'm gonna try to help.

Lots of people saying they don't understand how other people getting ppv point would effect McGregor's ability to.

The UFC can't give away a total of 100 ppv away to fighters. That's literally 100% of every ppv sold. They're trying to make money here.

If the provider takes 50 points, the UFC is left with 50 points to start with. My assumption is that they're not going to give more than 20 points, and that would be crazy high is assume.

So if the UFC is trying to give a total of 10-20 buys, that's a finite number. The more other fighters take, the less McGregor can go after.

I'm not making some sort of comment on how much he deserves or anything. Just trying to give an example to help the severely confused in here.
 
In all fairness, if every other fight was nixed from that card, IMO, it wouldn't hurt the PPV numbers. Ppl are watching for Conor.
 
That's some questionable math right there.
It was just examples, not exact numbers. I have no clue what anyone outside Eddie and Randy get per buy. We do know UFC gets around 55% of revenue so they are already at 35.75 MAX (65 HD PPV) per buy, odds are it averages lower due to SD buyers. So lets just say 33 a buy. If they are giving Conor 5 a buy, someone else 2-3 a buy and 2 others 2-3 a buy that is like 42% of their revenue for just 4 fighters. Again these are just examples of how quickly a few people getting points can add up and how much it eats of revenue.
 
Anyone who fights Conor gets the biggest payday of their career by far.

Anyone who fights on his card gets more eyeballs on them than at any other time, they put on a show it's good for their future's.

Conor growing the UFC is good for everyone.
sorry, but no.
Concentrating the money on Conor does not help other fighters.

Actually NOT paying Conor that much money, and making it so everyone gets paid more is the way to help.

Top fighters don't want because they would get paid less.
Mid-to-top fighters don't want because they think they will be making to the top.
The rest can't help because they are not the above mentioned fighters, so they have no power to change.
 
sorry, but no.
Concentrating the money on Conor does not help other fighters.

Actually NOT paying Conor that much money, and making it so everyone gets paid more is the way to help.

Top fighters don't want because they would get paid less.
Mid-to-top fighters don't want because they think they will be making to the top.
The rest can't help because they are not the above mentioned fighters, so they have no power to change.

A Conor fight is going to do twice the gate of anyone else and 1.5million+ PPV buys.

If the next biggest draws are only doing 400k buys how can you not concentrate the money on Conor?
 
A Conor fight is going to do twice the gate of anyone else and 1.5million+ PPV buys.

If the next biggest draws are only doing 400k buys how can you not concentrate the money on Conor?

I would not concentrate ALL money on Conor, because the dud fought last two years ago.
Don't spend all your money on him.
Instead, start paying more to all fighters, and perhaps more good prospects will join.

I mean, why do you think anyone who has the choice would to for NFL or NBA instead of MMA?
Because they would make a lot more (guaranteed) money and wouldn't have to get punched in the face for it.
 
I would not concentrate ALL money on Conor, because the dud fought last two years ago.
Don't spend all your money on him.
Instead, start paying more to all fighters, and perhaps more good prospects will join.

I mean, why do you think anyone who has the choice would to for NFL or NBA instead of MMA?
Because they would make a lot more (guaranteed) money and wouldn't have to get punched in the face for it.

You get paid for your worth.

In prize fighting you get paid for what you bring in terms of viewership.

In team sports you get paid based on performance on the field.

It's two different things.

People are gonna keep watching the NFL every year no matter what but boxing and MMA lives and dies on what athletes capture the publics attention.

Paying everyone across the organisation more because Conor events are more profitable isn't a good business decision.
 
You get paid for your worth.

In prize fighting you get paid for what you bring in terms of viewership.

In team sports you get paid based on performance on the field.

It's two different things.

People are gonna keep watching the NFL every year no matter what but boxing and MMA lives and dies on what athletes capture the publics attention.

Paying everyone across the organisation more because Conor events are more profitable isn't a good business decision.

You miss the point.
You pay more, you get better material to work with.
You pay shitty salary, anyone that have athletic gifts will join other sports that pays more.

I am not saying to pay Conor same as a journeymen. No. Pay him well.
Just don't use all the profit to pay for him alone.

There's a difference here.
 
You miss the point.
You pay more, you get better material to work with.
You pay shitty salary, anyone that have athletic gifts will join other sports that pays more.

I am not saying to pay Conor same as a journeymen. No. Pay him well.
Just don't use all the profit to pay for him alone.

There's a difference here.

There's never going to be the money in combat sports to have a big pool of "A Level" athletes like football or basketball.

Guys can grow up playing those sports in their back yard or at school and get sponsorships to college then get signed for millions when they make the big stage.

There's too much in terms of variety of skills needed for MMA ever have more than a fringe pool of athletes and you have to spend years proving yourself before you get the pay off so you have to love the sport.

It's different barriers to entry when you need to be comfortable fighting, getting hit and verse yourself in conditioning, wrestling, bjj, striking, making weight etc
 
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There's never going to be the money in combat sports to have a big pool of "A Level" athletes like football or basketball.

Guys can grow up playing those sports in their back yard or at school and get sponsorships to college then get signed for millions when they make the big stage.

There's too much in terms of variety of skills needed for MMA ever have more than a fringe pool of athletes and you have to spend years proving yourself before you get the pay off so you have to love the sport.

It's different barriers to entry when you need to be comfortable fighting, getting hit and verse yourself in conditioning, wrestling, bjj, striking, making weight etc

I don't disagree it will never be like Soccer.
But your point is irrelevant when talking fighter's pay.
a low level fighter does not have to get paid only 6k for a fight.
That is my point.

but at the same time, you can't deny the growth of this sport.
Most gyms now teach MMA instead of single martial arts. That's a HUGE change from 10 years ago.
 
Dont blame him. If you can negotiate it, and the PPV points transfer to you, do it.
 
Wasn't there a time where he was pretending to care about how fighters were treated? Guess that changed.
McGregor doesn't lose money, if UFC gives percentage or dollars on the PPV to another guy. The UFC would be giving their share up. I don't see how this effects McGregor, unless someone else who knows better can smarten me up.
That's my understanding of it too. It just seems to make no sense, and seems beyond petty.
 
That's my understanding of it too. It just seems to make no sense, and seems beyond petty.
Nah. It's quite simple. The fewer PPV points other fighters get, the more room there is for Conor to get extra PPV points.
The negotiations are probably not done yet, it's not like Conor has a fixed PPV percentage in his contract. He can still argue for more PPV points.

It could go down like this

Conor: "I want X% of the PPV"
UFC: "Impossible. Even if we could give X points in total, we can't give em to a single person. There willbe other fighters on this card who have PPV deals, so you will have to share the X points with them."
Conor: "Not anymore".
 
Nah. It's quite simple. The fewer PPV points other fighters get, the more room there is for Conor to get extra PPV points.
The negotiations are probably not done yet, it's not like Conor has a fixed PPV percentage in his contract. He can still argue for more PPV points.

It could go down like this

Conor: "I want X% of the PPV"
UFC: "Impossible. Even if we could give X points in total, we can't give em to a single person. There willbe other fighters on this card who have PPV deals, so you will have to share the X points with them."
Conor: "Not anymore".
I mean that's cool and all, and mathematically I get it. But it's a pretty big slight towards not just the fighters, but the fans who will have to deal with watered down conor mcgregor cards moving forward cause notable fighters won't have any incentive to agree to that date. It's under the "get yours while you can" category obviously, but dosen't make it any less greasy. Splitting hairs aside he may not even succeed on his request, could just be another "I need ownership to take another fight" type claim just to try and stir the pot for just more flat money instead of actually stopping others from making bonus incentives.
 
Most of these fighters have talked shit about him at one time or the other and doubted him, so why the hell should he be inclined to give them money out of his own pocket? More or less, why should WE criticize him for it? Should Conor want to have Tyron on the card? DC? TJ? Holloway? etc. They can move the needle themselves.
Money out of his own pocket? I don’t think they would cut into his purse
 
He doesn't need them, so I see no issue as long as he's maxing out the points the UFC is giving out as a whole. The other real draws can go on a different card while those looking to gain fans can piggyback onto conor's cards.

The only exception is that his opponents need some of those points, but not fighters under him on the card.
 
Why cut the heads off the guys on the floor picking up crumbs?

Nobody is cutting the heads off of anybody. They get paid more than crumbs so don't make it sound like they're beggars. I see where you're going with this. "Oh...the low tier fighters are broke and can't feed themselves. The UFC should take more out of the higher earners' salaries and re-distribute it to them." That's the typical liberal/socialistic/communist/millennial thinking. Did you vote for Bernie Sanders or are you too young to vote?
 
This is the guy who while fit and healthy preferred to take state hand outs than work for a living.
 
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