You are talking about her ig, though. That doesn’t necessarily mean that she is a superstar lol.
https://www.instagram.com/katyaelisehenry/?hl=es
This girl has 3 times more the ig followers and nobody knows who the fuck she is lol.
Paige Vanzant is NOT a star. She is not brock or cm punk. She cannot carry a card and pull 1 milion ppvs. I love the fact that she is making money outside of fighting, its a brutal sport and fighters should always pursue something else so they can retire comfortably. But lets be real here.
One more important thing that is worth saying is that as famous as you can be as a fighter, you need RESULTS. You need to be good and win fights consistently, otherwise you will be forgotten.
Do people buy PPVs to watch PVZ?
dude she is a d level fighter, imagine paying every d level fighter huge sums of money. pretty sure the sage northcutt method clearly doesnt work. let this woman go to bellator she might get paid there and might actually pick up wins vs the other d level fightersShe still gets under 50k to show and is definitely a draw, her fight with Waterson averaged 4.9m viewers. 4.9m viewers and she got 43k to show, you might not like her but something isn't right with those numbers.
prob more than they do for the large majority of the roster.
But that's not a good question for Sherdog, literally 9 people on this site buy PPVs, the rest of us live in our mothers basement and stream it via illegal methods obv.
Funny when a male fighter complains about money y'all on their side but when she does it y'all shit on her lol.
Regardless of how she preforms or how good she it or her skill that fact that she makes more money on instagram(which I'm sure we all believe it to be true) then her fighting career for the number one fight promotion in the world is pretty sad!
do people buy PPVs at all any more?
We all do. PvZ ain't special in that respect.
Great that she's managed to take the platform and make more money, but if the UFC ain't getting a couple more PPV points because she's on the card (and even that's debatable if she's not the main) then she gets what she gets. If she's parlayed her fighting career into something else that makes her more money, she has to decide if she wants to keep fighting.
Fighter pay is a issue. Even if pay gets increased should it go to PvZ first or should it go to say, a Cowboy Cerrone (picking random name of fighter who has main events but is not a champion) who has main events and is driving sales. Are people saying "I'm going to get this PPV because of PVZ or I'll get this PPV, it's a bonus that PvZ is on the card"
Paige Van Zant is not more popular than Masvidal lolIt is beyond my understanding too, but it is the reality of the world today. It is not about how things ought to be, it is about how things are.
The way things are is that Paige is more popular than anyone else on the card, regardless of merit. She can make more money on social media than her current UFC contract. That is why she is angling for more pay. She is right.
why?She's entitled to her opinion as I am to mine:
This statement would mean more coming from someone who doesn't do IG whoring.
Why?She's had like 2 fights since 2017. I would hope someone working a 9 to 5 makes more than her