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Sorry I should have said Michael venom Paige - facts are facts fighters not at the top make far more money outside of the UFC. It's just a fact.
Whether a fighter can make more money inside or outside the UFC is heavily dependent on circumstance. Most of them do not. Eddie Alvarez got paid more in the UFC. Chandler is getting paid more.
If a fighter is top 10 and seemingly not going anywhere in the UFC then sometimes it's better to leave. Guys like Bader and Phil Davis were top 10 guys with kind of boring styles who were never going to fight for a title. So for them it made sense to go to Bellator because they had more value to Bellator than the UFC. If they had started out in Bellator they wouldn't be making as much.