Dananomics: "Badou Jack is fighting for $75k" Badou: "That won't even cover my training camp!"

[Deleted member 585708]

Dana White clearly has his own Dananomics, where numbers don't matter, dollars aren't real, the sky is purple, and the UFC pays fighters really well.

However, here he starts telling people how much Badou Jack is earning, and Badou Jack just laughs at Dana: That won't even cover my training camp - which is actually pretty believable, given UFC fighters say the same thing most weeks!

Dana... start paying your fighters more, bud.

 

[PhilMcCavity]

Food stamps jack

 

[PicoPulse]

Does he train with Tates coaches?

 

[Stargazer Rex]

 

[Hellowhosthat]

A rare situation where I don't believe either of them.

 

[DanAndroid]

idk, if anyones numbers doesn't seem real it is the cost of badou's training camp.

 

[Kertol]

How does a training camp for a couple months cost that much? If he’s not lying someone is ripping someone else off clearly which wouldn’t be that surprising with how stupid a lot of pro athletes are

 

[Hellowhosthat]

How does a training camp for a couple months cost that much? If he’s not lying someone is ripping someone else off clearly which wouldn’t be that surprising with how stupid a lot of pro athletes are

Yeah I'll put this dude's camp together for 50 grand, save him some money.

 

[avenue94]

How does a training camp for a couple months cost that much? If he’s not lying someone is ripping someone else off clearly which wouldn’t be that surprising with how stupid a lot of pro athletes are

I would guess a nutrionist or personal cook around all the time. But that's just my WAG.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

A rare situation where I don't believe either of them.

Not sure about his training camp, but Jack's reported earnings in recent fights range from $500,000 to $750,000 guaranteed from the sources I've seen.

https://www.sportekz.com/boxing/badou-jack-vs-blake-mckernan-purse-payouts/

Here's just one, but it's telling that Blake McKernan wasn't a particularly big fight. 8 round, non title, non-main event, not even co-main, on the same card as the Tyson-Jones exhibition.

I can imagine he could easily burn six figures all in on a training camp and hotel in Abu Dhabi, but he probably doesn't need to.

But if you're earning AT LEAST half a million, why not be as comfortable as possible?

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Is Badou Jack using the same training camp as Miesha Tate?

 

[Mentallooser]

How does a training camp for a couple months cost that much? If he’s not lying someone is ripping someone else off clearly which wouldn’t be that surprising with how stupid a lot of pro athletes are

Sparring partners brought in, given lodging. Crazy amounts of professionally managed and monitored food. Coaching. Equipment. Travel for the team. Chemical supplements and the like. I dunno.

 

[Croton]

Hold up he said a prelim fighter on ufc 267 made 750k?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Not sure about his training camp, but Jack's reported earnings in recent fights range from $500,000 to $750,000 guaranteed from the sources I've seen.

https://www.sportekz.com/boxing/badou-jack-vs-blake-mckernan-purse-payouts/

Here's just one, but it's telling that Blake McKernan wasn't a particularly big fight. 8 round, non title, non-main event, not even co-main, on the same card as the Tyson-Jones exhibition.

I can imagine he could easily burn six figures all in on a training camp and hotel in Abu Dhabi, but he probably doesn't need to.

But if you're earning AT LEAST half a million, why not be as comfortable as possible?

If you don't want to save any money for after you retire I guess it makes sense.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Hold up he said a prelim fighter on ufc 267 made 750k?

It's got to be the great Hu Yaozong.

 

[RiotWyatt]

Badou Jack makes 500-750k per fight. Not sure if he gets more from sponsorships, gate and PPV percentages. That's pretty good considering he is old now and has never really been a big name. He hasn't really fought a relevant fighter for a while either.

On the other hand, Chandler is currently one of the UFC's most popular fighters, fighting in nothing but contender fights and title fights. Yet, makes about the same.

Really not a good look for Dana to be making that comparison.

 

[TheHabitualLineStepper]

Dillian Whyte claims his training camps cost £500,000 lol

Either way, Badou Jack isn't getting paid 75k and has made more in his career than the vast majority of UFC fighters.

 

[Croton]

It's got to be the great Hu Yaozong.

UFC 267

UFC 268

No way any of these fighters made 750k
Only one possible imo would have been pereira, but Dana said this prelim fighter had never been a world champion

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Badou Jack makes 500-750k per fight. Not sure if he gets more from sponsorships, gate and PPV percentages. That's pretty good considering he is old now and has never really been a big name. He hasn't really fought a relevant fighter for a while either.

On the other hand, Chandler is currently one of the UFC's most popular fighters, fighting in nothing but contender fights and title fights. Yet, makes about the same.

Really not a good look for Dana to be making that comparison.

I'm sure Jack peddles products for sponsors - while chandler . . .

 

[Deleted member 585708]

UFC 267

UFC 268

No way any of these fighters made 750k
Only one possible imo would have been pereira, but Dana said this prelim fighter had never been a world champion

He could easily have paid Pereira that, and he's certainly never been anything like a world champ in MMA - his competition has been abysmal prior to Michailidis, which had some doubting that he'd win (big step up in relative terms). But that's really fudging your own argument, because as we all know he's a multiple division world champion, like you say!