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The questions of exactly how much the UFC pays to its fighters was answered in court hearings on Monday in Las Vegas. The figures came out in Judge Franklin Boulware’s hearing regarding the lawsuit by Cung Le and other former UFC fighters against the company, charging that UFC was acting as a monopoly promotion that used its power and marketplace control to keep fighter pay down.
This is a key week as Boulware, after the hearings, is expected to make a ruling that would greatly impact the proceedings if the case was to go forward. UFC fighters received 26 percent of company gross revenue in 2007, a number that steadily declined until 2011, where it remained steady at between 19 and 20 percent.
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The arguments were always that the major league sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL paid closer to 50 percent. But those sports also have had unions and collective bargaining dating back decades, and prior to that, the players received nowhere near that percentage.
What also came out in the hearings was that Strikeforce paid fighters 63.0 percent of revenue, while for Bellator, which has been the No. 2 promotion in the U.S. for the past several years, that figure is 44.7 percent.
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Plaintiffs expert Dr. Hal Singer argued that in a truly competitive environment the UFC would be paying 47.3 percent of revenue to fighters.
More: https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/8/27/20835544/evidence-in-cung-le-lawsuit-against-ufc-shows-company-paid-20-percent-of-revenue-to-fighters
-MMAFighting.com
This is a key week as Boulware, after the hearings, is expected to make a ruling that would greatly impact the proceedings if the case was to go forward. UFC fighters received 26 percent of company gross revenue in 2007, a number that steadily declined until 2011, where it remained steady at between 19 and 20 percent.
. . .
The arguments were always that the major league sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL paid closer to 50 percent. But those sports also have had unions and collective bargaining dating back decades, and prior to that, the players received nowhere near that percentage.
What also came out in the hearings was that Strikeforce paid fighters 63.0 percent of revenue, while for Bellator, which has been the No. 2 promotion in the U.S. for the past several years, that figure is 44.7 percent.
. . .
Plaintiffs expert Dr. Hal Singer argued that in a truly competitive environment the UFC would be paying 47.3 percent of revenue to fighters.
More: https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/8/27/20835544/evidence-in-cung-le-lawsuit-against-ufc-shows-company-paid-20-percent-of-revenue-to-fighters
-MMAFighting.com
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