Rumored Conor and Rousey's PPV payouts revealed in disclosures from the UFC antitrust suit, via Bloody Elbow

[Thepaintbucket]

Damn I thought Conor would've been wayyyy more than that.

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

 

[Dana's Moonface]

Conor is definitely fuming right now that his true payouts got revealed after how bad he's inflated his numbers throughout the years. Really all he is doing is covering for cheapo Dana by claiming 20+ million per fight.

Once quoted he was earning 80m from the cowboy fight, despite it only doing 1.3m buys worldwide

A huge number, but not even close enough to pay conor half that, after the ufc get the majority

 

[Istryker]

Damn I thought Conor would've been wayyyy more than that.

Yeah me too..

 

[Istryker]

Lol love the retards crying about low pay

Are you gonna cry more for ur daddy dana?

 

[Mack Yancy]

Lol love the retards crying about low pay

You're a retard crying about the retards, that puts you a step lower.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

The issue isn't whether or not it's a lot of money compared to what people on this forum make. It's the size of the payouts relative to the revenue that they generated for the UFC and compared to PPV stars in boxing, where promoters are legally prohibited from the kind of revenue splits that the UFC imposes on its fighters.

Conor is a bigger per fight PPV draw than Canelo, but makes about 15% of what Canelo does per fight. It's robbery.

The key difference you are missing is that boxing does not rely on a single promoter to make them stars. GoldenBoy, Mayweather Promotions, Top Rank(Bob Arum), Matchroom(Eddie Hearn)....etc. All interchangeable. Boxing doesn't follow the same model.

MMA follows the pro wrestling model for the most part with very few exceptions. Talent only gets huge name under UFC as the promoter....only then do they become true stars and can make some cross promotion. Brock Lensar only sold 35,000 PPVs under K1 as a promoter in U.S. - His very next fight with the UFC he does 650,000 PPV buys.

Only two options

• Until MMA stars can be made without UFC doing the promoting then the UFC is basically taking the credit for getting them huge(which is proven true, MMA isn't popular....UFC brand is)
• UFC fighters enter a union(won't happen as fighters are all in it for themselves as its not a team sport)

Middle to lower class MMA fans austically arguing for years over the financials of strangers that they can't change who are mostly far wealthier than them already is silly but go at it.

 

[blaseblase]

Middle to lower class MMA fans austically arguing for years over the financials of strangers that they can't change who are mostly far wealthier than them already is silly but go at it.

If you're middle to lower class you should support worker rights and unions instead of cheering on corporations.

 

[EYEKICKFACES]

The guy who used to compile those "highest paid athlete" lists from Forbes wasn't doing any real research. He was just taking PR statements from athlete's managers at face value.

As soon as he was replaced with someone who crunches real numbers, Conor stopped showing up on their lists.

I always thought a lot of those numbers were made up but when did they change? Conor was last on it in 2021 I believe.

 

[tatsuke]

Some of these payouts are better than I thought . Ronda made out like a bandit!

But...

For his eighth straight title defense against Henry Cejudo, he was on a contract that paid $135,000 to show and $60,000 to win, and only got to $245,000 after a $50,000 performance of the night bonus.
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Holy shit.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

If you're middle to lower class you should support worker rights and unions instead of cheering on corporations.

Yes how Sherdoggers support.

Like I already stated in my post. Unless the fighters give a fuck and unionize all of this jerking off about fighter pay is just what that is....mental masturbation. Last I checked fighters don't care enough.

 

[FrankNStein]

LOL You realize that the cost of living in Canada is much higher than it is in the US at the moment, right?

That's why people who live near the border go to the States buy groceries.

https://nationalpost.com/life/food/brandi-dustin-canada-united-states-groceries

I think he meant that it's more appealing as a Canadian because we're talking about U.S. dollars due to the exchange rate.

 

[dog y]

Let's not skew the stats by forgetting the Reebok money.

They conveniently "forgot" to mention the cool hot dog branders they all got too

 

[Istryker]

Some of these payouts are better than I thought . Ronda made out like a bandit!

But...

For his eighth straight title defense against Henry Cejudo, he was on a contract that paid $135,000 to show and $60,000 to win, and only got to $245,000 after a $50,000 performance of the night bonus.
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Holy shit.

Dam did he get lubed first?

 

[Strijfy]

so did Conor really make 100mil for the Mayweather fight?

 

[Shabal]

I doubt the legitimacy of these numbers.

Even GSP and rampage made 5 million a fight way back in the day.

It's a court case, but it seems they've found loop holes to hide what the biggest stars are actually being paid.

No. They just genuinely paid them like shit. I bet the “locker room bonuses” were $25K tops.

 

[joeson]

Bigger than soccer….LOL.McGregor is their biggest star and in a year he fought Nata Diaz twice and Eddie Alverez, he made a combined 18 million? Little league soccer, maybe.

 

[joeson]

No. They just genuinely paid them like shit. I bet the “locker room bonuses” were $25K tops.

The “locker room bonuses” are included in these numbers. They would be fools to hide what they paid to the fighters from the courts. That’s literally a felony and would make it much more likely they would lose the antitrust case. And for what? Why would they want everyone to believe their athletes get paid 1/10th what everyone else gets paid?

 

[Local Plata]

But ask a Conor fan and they will tell you he has hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

[HP_Nut]

I think most of the time when people complain about fighter pay, they're not necessarily talking about or caring about the biggest stars like Conor or Ronda, more the avg fighter on the UFC roster. Like Conor & Ronda are underpaid relative to how much money they generate for the UFC, but no one is crying that Conor's peak UFC pay was $7 million or Ronda's peak UFC pay was $5 mil/fight. Its the $10 K to show, $10 K to win that shocks people. I have friends who are casuals who refuse to believe "the Super Bowl of MMA" pays some fighters that low, they said there's gotta be a mistake LOL

 

[Iroh]

Are people really that surprised? i recall that those were pretty close to what was speculated/reported at the time for Conor.

Also, his biggest paydays aren't among them. No Mayweather fight, no Khabib fight, no Poirier 2 or 3, even no Cerrone fight, but most importantly no Proper 12 monies.

Especially the Mayweather fight increased his brand recognition a fuckton, so I imagine he used that to leverage a good bit better of a payday. But also the Khabib fight, of course. The amount of viral moments Conor has had is hard to keep track of.