LOL at McGregor delusional fans claiming that he's the biggest star in combat sports. Miguel Cotto wouldn't get out of bed for a 1 million purse.
They don't get that much PPV percentage. Conor is not making 15-20 millions that's a story you can tell little children in Ireland and Nate is "going to make millions" as in 2 millions max.
Since I quoted this
However Conor McGregor will be making alot more than that with his tier based PPV share contract with UFC, depending on the PPV numbers he is expected to clear around $8 to $10 million from his nights work against Diaz.
It should be quite clear that I don't think that. Maybe you're a moron who knows
Some things that I will clarify from my experience with MMA and from what I saw of the disclosed contracts from way way back and for guys that weren't anywhere as big as the monster stars that are Brock / Conor / Ronda.
1. Boxing purses work way different they are like guaranteed money (that include those PPV shares.. contracts and shady people that will try to stick it to you I would assume)
So when a boxer purse says he will get 15 mill guaranteed for example (up to 20+ mill in case the PPV does really well) so he gets that 15 or 20+ mill and whatever sponsor deals he has.. now he won't get another check on top of all that for the PPV shares for another 10-15 etc mill because that was already included when they negotiated those large purses.
2. In MMA a private league / business that is ran like the good old boys club doesn't wanna show SHIT to the public and especially to the other fighters because they will also start to ask for more shit.. I'm telling you 100% Conor is loved / hated by the UFC he put a lot of eyes and attention and made fighters speak more openly about pay and ask for shit not just timid behind closed doors but publicly so Conor costed them quite some $ with all this "I make this, and that.. what do you make ? you have so less etc etc" routine.
So MMA is ran in the dark when it comes to pay we only see purses that were for years and years the top ones where 400k to show no win bonus + PPV.. then upgraded to 500k show and Anderson 600k + win bonus that was a first for such a large purse then we go into this what I believe Conor pissing contest so we get this 1 mill purse and was way upped by Brock's 2.5 mill purse (PS: Ronda kinda weak at this negotiating stuff not sure how large her PPV share is but the boys got her beat at purses by a long shot).
Purses for big draw name fighters are the little side of the money.. the real cash comes from the PPV shares and the way you negotiated that stuff be it starts from 500k+ buys (Reem had that) or starts from 200 buys and every 200k it gets upped etc etc different examples.
3. But you are right that boxing pays better then MMA.. if boxing guys do big cards with 1.5+ mill buys you can expect them to get a lot more in boxing you can see a pay day like 25-35+ mill for such a good selling card where in MMA we get this 8-10-12 mill.. max the speculated 15 mill if you add all the stuff from purse + sponsors etc..
Its clear the boxing PPV shares are way way bigger then what the MMA guys get heck a card with 800~900k buys can pay more in boxing then one of our monster cards of 1.2 ~ 1.5 mill buys.
4. The man with the articles did some estimates he only has the purse numbers he doesn't have the PPV contracts info no way.. so I'm sure Diaz is also taking a large piece of the PPV shares nothing close to Conor but half could be something very possible.. a lot more then the 1 mill speculated by the article I assure you.. in fact he did more then that for the first fight.
Another fun fact is that Conor insisted on having his PPV shares transformed into FLAT fees payed no matter what the card sell number is and not waiting to get checks weeks in and out slow and steady with PPV numbers just a flat 10~12+ mill check in the night of the fight.. this also speculated that this is why he was so less interested in doing public appearances and promotion for the card.. that the exact selling isn't linked to his income and that if the UFC wants him there they need to pay extra for the promotion and the all shit storm started with that (rumor again.. connected with the info we had to run, they will never reveal it of course but it's not cause he missed a press conference you can work around that it's the demands behind that most likely).
Oh another little 'tactic' used by the UFC is to work with this "back room bonuses" fighters like Shane Carwin didn't get PPV share but just some back room bonus like 1 mill check in the night of the fight so they "avoid" that PPV share but in the end they come out on top the share should have been bigger then what bonus you get from them.. and keep in mind that was the biggest bonus that we got info off others are way way small keep in mind that was for a 1.05 ~ 1.1 mill buys PPV he just had with Lesnar so they UFC didn't really did him a favor in fact they low balled him.. to go along with his 40k show up purse (but at least no Reebok shit deal so he made bank with the sponsors around 300k-400k from them).
