News Deadline: Jake Paul reduces amount asked for fighter pay in last ditch offer to get Dana to accept

What y’all think Dana should do more:

  • Give Fighters Healthcare

  • Increase minimum pay

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the dude sold 65k ppvs hahaha, he's a non issue and he is begging for a response. Hilarious he has made a living as a kid and is clearly showing he still is one
 
Healthcare would be reasonable, but I can't see paying a no name curtain jerker who draws nothing more than like $15k per fight. If they want to make more they need to win consistently and actually draw.
 
I'm sure ESPN will be all over this one, exposing it like it needs to be.:(
 
Johnnny said:
Get rid of minimum pay. Drastically increase the amount and number of bonuses to really incentivize fighters to put on exciting fights. The bonus pool should be at least $1 million per event.

Give long-term healthcare and pension benefits to fighters that reach a certain number of fights in the UFC. Long-term healthcare could start at 6 fights and pension benefits could start at 12 fights. Long-term healthcare is forfeited if fighters compete in a different organization or combat sport after their time in the UFC.
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I like the bonus idea.
I have been hoping for a finish bonus setup, like 50k for everyone who wins by stoppage to encourage guys to go for the kill vs taking he safe UD when up on cards.

They do avg 200k in bonuses now right?
50ko potn x 2
50k fotn x 2

So make it a million and have fighters FIGHT over than money and literally beat the shit out of each other for it. Works for me.

That would cost them roughly 40mil a year which I assume would still leave them well short of even the lowest paying major sport by percentage of revenue.

They could call it "blood money"


(And literally have a bonus for drawing or shedding blood)
 
As long as Endeavor is in debt nothing will change when it comes to fighter pay, simple as that.
Maybe when the debt is finally absolved then Endeavor might start increasing pay across the board, even then they might have to be dragged kicking and screaming in order to do it.
 
Qwerty1 said:
Dana White fucked up when he replied...part of me thinks they will end up having business in some type of way before it is all said and done. Otherwise why would Dana even bother.
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Same reason he replies to DLH. It's not about doing business together.
 
Johnnny said:
Get rid of minimum pay. Drastically increase the amount and number of bonuses to really incentivize fighters to put on exciting fights. The bonus pool should be at least $1 million per event.

Give long-term healthcare and pension benefits to fighters that reach a certain number of fights in the UFC. Long-term healthcare could start at 6 fights and pension benefits could start at 12 fights. Long-term healthcare is forfeited if fighters compete in a different organization or combat sport after their time in the UFC.
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That is even a bigger ask. 1 million for each event in bonuses? Long term health care and pension? What other sports does any of this? Healthcare while under contract but trying to get health care out of contract isn't realistic. Better off trying to get universal healthcare instead and campaign for that. Either way none of this is realistic currently. It will not happen. Revenue split is also a big issue, UFC/WME will not willingly change that. Having a Jake Paul fight in UFC is not worth the costs in those terms and Jake Paul knows that. It's his way of ducking UFC/mma by adding impossible terms.
 
Ripp0ntare said:
the dude sold 65k ppvs hahaha, he's a non issue and he is begging for a response. Hilarious he has made a living as a kid and is clearly showing he still is one
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That number is apocryphal.
 
Respect to Jake Paul, really hope he can make some change for the better, he has the fighters best interest at heart.
 
Both of their offers / challenges are stupid.

Dana's is stupid because who the fuck is gonna get someone to go around coke testing you for a decade lmao. Like anybody fucking cares, he's just tryna fucking wind you up you meat head. As if someone is gonna dedicate TEN YEARS of their life to you just to do that. What a narcissist/both are.

Then Jake's is stupid cause there's too many stipulations in it. I can't remember what they all were but he put about 50 things didn't he? Basically asking for an entire re-structure of an organisation, just to prove he's not on steroids... again, as if Dana or anyone there would care THAT MUCH just to prove that.

Dana should just say let's both take coke/roid tests randomly for the next 1 year.

Jake should just say increase fighter pay to x/I'll do random roid tests for 2.

Something a little more in-line with each other.
 
Ian said:
I’d rather see them get rid of win bonuses and just pay fighters a flat fee. It sucks seeing fighters get screwed by the judges and losing half their money. Dana spouts off about “never leave it in the hands of the judges” but has done nothing to fix the issue.

I voted health insurance though. So many sad stories are going to come out as time goes on. Gary Goodridge had the worst effects post fighting. Unless there’s someone else I’m forgetting.
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Spencer Fisher is not doing good at all...

His wife left her job to take care of him...

He is now coaching MMA in some local gym...but, from what i read, he is not really able to conduct because of his dizzy spells...
 
Dana knows Paul is the future of the UFC
 
Jake needs to address his tweets to Ari or Endeavour. I highly doubt Dana can just say "fuck it" and increase fighter pay.

Obviously he won't, because that won't generate as much interest for him, but there we go.
 
Ian said:
I’d rather see them get rid of win bonuses and just pay fighters a flat fee. It sucks seeing fighters get screwed by the judges and losing half their money. Dana spouts off about “never leave it in the hands of the judges” but has done nothing to fix the issue.

I voted health insurance though. So many sad stories are going to come out as time goes on. Gary Goodridge had the worst effects post fighting. Unless there’s someone else I’m forgetting.
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They don't really lose half their pay as such. They could do it so that instead of a show/win bonus you got a show bonus that was 25% higher than the original show bonus as a flat fee without increasing what they spend on fighters (I realise fighters make different purses, but I think it'd even out over a year), but it depends whether fighters would want to take a flat $18k to start with or the opportunity to get $24k with the downside of potentially only making $12k.
 
Well this has been a super entertaining exchange and I’m sure Dana is thinking about caving to the guy who is no threat at all to him or the UFC
 
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