The numbers never added up between Jon Jones and Francis . Jon Jones was asking for 8- 10 million and they were going to pay Francis 8 million also? Lol. I've even seen some crazy ass people saying Francis would get paid 8 million per fight with his new UFC contract
What's a discretionary bonus?
Why would they want to make it look like the fighters were paid less than they actually were?
Does this mean that when McGregor came back to fight for comparatively peanuts after the Floyd fight it was because he really did love the game?
Also, given these figures, I'd be curious to know how much McGregor really got from the Floyd fight, after the UFC's cut.
But ask a Conor fan and they will tell you he has hundreds of millions of dollars.
He might have done from the Floyd fight and selling his whisky company.
When Conor was parroting those 20-25 million figures, I was expecting him to make more in the ball park of 10 million. I guess it wasn't happening because his opponents weren't going to accept chump change against him and of course the UFC likes to inflate PPV sales via Danas mouth
Francis himself on his interview with Ariel said the $8m was what UFC offered him for the Jones fight, you think he's lying? I don't think that meant he'd get that for every fight going forwards, just because of how big thah fight would be.
He also said if he'd signed a new Champs contact he would've made $4m each for Stipe 2 and Gane instead of the 500 or 600k he got.
That sounds about right.
Was Rhonda even a draw?? Or she get the Dana bonus due to her other specialities??
I remember this idiot telling me jones has got multiple 10 million dollars fights before as well
some shit about Rashad getting 8 mill too lol
Canelo's only beats Conor in popularity in Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela. It's a blowout in the rest of the world.ok but latin america...
In the real world multiple things can be true at once. Or wrong.This forum cracks me up. People hate how grossly overpaid NBA and MLB athletes are but also complain for Conor and Ronda who made millions
True there's no middle ground between paying a fighter 12k and making him/her a millionaire.Im not sure how much money you guys think the undercard fighters should be making but there is not enough money left over to make everyone millionaires.
True there's no middle ground between paying a fighter 12k and making him/her a millionaire.
So for Conor vs Diaz 1 the PPV generated $61 Million. Conor and Nate took home about $8.5 Million. That leaves about $52 Million to spread out to 20 additional fighters on the undercard, UFC shareholders, UFC executives while also cover the cost of the event along with promotion.
Im not sure how much money you guys think the undercard fighters should be making but there is not enough money left over to make everyone millionaires.
If anything the UFC should cut back how many fighters they put on the card. Conor vs Diaz 1 had 11 fights on the card. Honestly they could have had 4 fights on the whole card and sold the same amount of PPVs.