More money than meets the eye in the UFC - MMA - Yahoo! Sports

Look, I know it's 'cool' to hate Dana White, but this is ridiculous.

First off, do you know what Dana White makes? I'm guessing you don't.

Second, if it weren't for White and the Ferittas, MMA may not even exist anymore. It was dead in this country. They couldn't get on PPV, and you can get porn on PPV. The UFC was bleeding money.

But White had a vision and took the UFC and made it into a mainstream sport that is getting covered by mainstream media outlets, and is losing the 'human cockfighting' stigma it has had for years.

If White didn't take control of the UFC, Tito Ortiz would not be a millionaire, he wouldn't be banging a porn star, and he wouldn't have been on the Apprentice. All of the fighters who are bitching about salary would not be getting paid anything near what they are getting paid now, and many probably wouldn't even be fighting.

I know you're not an MMA fan, but all MMA fans owe Dana White a debt of gratitude, because he helped save MMA.

To think otherwise is just being ignorant.

TFK

 

Well no shit the UFC pays the most. THEY ARE THE ONLY 1 THAT MAKES MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY EVENT !!. It is an absolute fucking disgrace that those fighters don't get paid more. They get paid a PITTANCE, it's pathetic and anyone with 2 good eyes can see it. Yet you think it's OK because it would be bad for the fighters to get spoiled. :laughing:

 

you gotta be kidding me that these guys don't get paid

there are people all over the country and probably world.. who Like Kimbo used to do fight for VERY little money! we have guys making MILLIONS to FIGHT complain about it:doh:

 

Nobodies making MILLIONS in MMA

 

Your exactly right. He acts as if Mayweather is overpaid. HBO and and the promoters pull money out of their asses to pay him all that money.

The other promotions in MMA are not selling out 20,000 seater arenas every Month and doing around 500,000 PPV buys a show. So of course they can't pay more money. You can't pay money to people that is not there.

 

Not true. Randy Couture made just under 3 Million fighting Slyvia and Gonzaga. Liddell reportedly made 1.5 Million for his fights against Tito Ortiz and Rampage. I don't know the exact numbers, but I know Hughes and Royce Gracie both got paid very well for their fight.

People look at salaries and think that's all the fighters are getting paid. They don't realize they get paid bonuses, plus PPV bonuses, DVD royalties, etc, etc.

Sure, nobody is making $20 Mil a fight, but that's a good thing.

TFK

 

According to Ortiz, nobody is making DVD royalties or a cut of merchandise, etc. And they've banned some of the sponsors which didn't and doesn't sit well with some fighters.

 

It shouldn't sit well. Considering UFC like to say that you get the sponsors for being on our show and alot of the time sponsors pay more money then the UFC.

UFC is probably just as corrupt if not moreso then any boxing promoter out there right now.

 

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