The Champ should get the most dough

[Homervanderjaz]

You hear posters going on about yeh he got paid less coz he ain't no "needle mover", doesn't bring in the numbers and other bs.

Let me ask you this- what is it to you if the guy ain't bringing in the numbers? Does Dana give you a cut? Does it help your life in anyway?

If a guy is the champ then he should be the one who gets the lions share. Then we would have everyone focused on actually winning the belt and taking the tough fights as opposed to the farce we have now with everyone chasing money fights and not the fights many of us want to see.

 

[LordMayorMuffSniff]

Individual fighters bring in different figures off the back of their name.

You can't take money generated by one fighter and give it to the champ.

That's socialist MMA. Said fighter would leave the organisation and the champ would be back to earning peanuts.

Less than peanuts because the higher drawing products would have moved elsewhere causing the profits made by the organisation to drop.

 

[BAKM]

If that happened, the UFC would lose money on every mighty mouse fight.

 

[Lawson2]

Personally in the first time in years. I am seeing the fights I wanna see. But ratings gets advertisers and pay-per view buys. That money runs a buisness that pays fighters and employees. That's just how the world works. This is the best and longest MMA organization ever. I think they got it covered. Affliction was a fad, UFC is forever.

Does the super bowl winner make the most money? NOT always, but they have a Union and are united. UFC fighters aren't quite there yet.

 

[Kyler Ruxin]

The champs do get paid the most. They get paid PPV %. The problem isn't non champs asking for money fights, the problem is the champs asking for fights against non #1 contenders so that they sell more PPV's.

 

[dontlaugh]

They gotta draw, right ? they gotta bring in fans etc.

How would they become more poular with UFC's main demographic ? That's a question for the Americans, what they want from a fighter, Conor McGregor-like personas or they're ok with Cold Killers that do their talk in the cage ? cause we had the last one for years and most of them were not huge draws, yet someone who "talks a lot" always made good money, Ask Tito and Chael, and now Conor.

I think the main demographic in the UFC is too used to the "circus" aspect of combat sports where they're expecting to be entertained by other things aside from the fight, they want a whole "show", not just a fight.

That's why most fighters will not make more money, unless they become dominant beasts : they don't appeal to the major demographic and the fans don't see anything exciting in them.

If they're just amazing, but not risk takers, don't give fans exciting fights or are too good to be true, it seems fans don't get behind them.

 

[mmacrisis]

The business is about selling PPV and live tickets, if your name doesn't draw people in, then how can you get paid more. When the belts are moving from person to person that is hard to do, but when you get a long term champ (GSP, Silva, Jones) it becomes much easier.

 

[DLX]

You guys don't know, but I'm secretly a UFC shill. I get .0004% of the revenue. So, down with non-needle movers!