Oscar paid some of the undercard fighters on his 1st MMA event as low as $1,000 for their show money.
He’s all talk, and lingerie.
I’m not sure but I think a lot of people are failing to see the bigger picture with this.
Whether its Oscar or someone that sherdorks like more in general, what he did as far as giving fighters a large piece of the pie (granted, it was one small ass pie) was necessary. All this hoopla from guys on here about fighter pay, yet, here’s a guy who is willing to cut at least the main event guys in, on a larger portion of the revenue and all Sherdorks do is bash him.
Yes, I understand the #s were abysmal and they didn’t earn their career highs like Oscar was saying, but the fact that someone did this is great. Maybe they can have better fights/cards in the future, while still giving the fighters a larger portion of the money.
The UFC pays its fighters like 12% of what they earn. I understand its a business but that business does not exist without fighters (much like the NBA would not exist without their players etc). I’m not even suggesting the UFC pay fighters 50% or anything, but, an increase is needed, across the board.
There’s a reason why guys like Chuck are still fighting at almost 50 (yes, he is a true fighter and a warrior through and through, but, if he had earned as much as he should have, he wouldn’t ever take punches to the head at age 50, or no normal person would).
I’m not saying Oscar is MMA’s savior, he’s not, he’s a promoter and he’s trying to make money. BUT, the fact that he is willing to give up a lot of the revenue to pay the main event guys is great. Hopefully it trickles down to the rest of the guys at some point and the fighters get the pay that they deserve (at least the hope is that one day the UFC will pay its fighters better).
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