The irony is they could attract more top shelf athletes if they paid better.
People will never pay more for something unless they have to. You can arbitrarily demand UFC pay people by passing laws that make them, or you can do it through the market.
Dana pays 10,000 because there's a line of fighters that can all compete on the level that 10,000 fighter can. If 99.99% of the population can't throw a high level hook or shoot a high level double leg, well, I'd bet fighter pay goes up tremendously.
The irony is they could attract more top shelf athletes if they paid better.
Some of those players make it because of bad MGT decisions. Scouts/GM's and coaches that have no fucking idea what they are looking at.. And once you hand out those fully guaranteed deals you are stuck with the bum riding the bench getting little to no playing time.
The Pistons once drafted some turd named Darko Milicic 2nd overall.. If you remember him..
Well congrats..
It they do 500k for Ngannou vs Gane, that's 37 million in revenue..
They paid three guys on the card about 10k to fight..
Stop sticking up for these pigs
That's exactly why I don't get fans who "don't give af" about fighter pay lol. It directly effects the quality of the sportThe irony is they could attract more top shelf athletes if they paid better.
That's exactly why I don't get fans who "don't give af" about fighter pay lol. It directly effects the quality of the sport
Why would a plumber risk lossing a 100k plus a year for a quik $12000Yes. The UFC hires 5-4 plumbers to fill out cards and sell them as top level MMa fighters lmao. Have you not noticed the decreased quality of the UFC over the years?
Why would a plumber risk lossing a 100k plus a year for a quik $12000
Not a lot of plumbers making that tbh with youWhy would a plumber risk lossing a 100k plus a year for a quik $12000
Yeah but he can only keep that up for so long lol. If it were that easy every other major sport would pay their athletes dog shit. Instead they pay their athletes top dollar, and leagues like the NFL have waaaaayyyyyyy more viewership than the UFCI think Dana has realized that high level athletes wouldn't necessarily increase viewership if he can market bums to look like the best. I think when it comes to fighting, Dana can stands more to gain profit-wise by convincing people that two bums are the best in the world and paying them pennies, rather than actually paying 2 of the best in the world to fight.
I'm not calling UFC fighters bums by any means, but you get what I mean, he makes more by getting lower level athletes and pretending they are higher.
The irony is they could attract more top shelf athletes if they paid better.
I mean, it just depends on whether you have a belief that is more capitalistic or more socialistic. If you are more of a capitalist, it shouldn't matter how much money is being made by the organization, you are paid what you are worth, and that is regardless of company profits.
If you believe in income distribution based off total revenue generated, do you also believe that if the UFC was losing money, that fighters shouldn't get paid, like how they were bleeding money for 10 years and constantly in the red?
Around here that's an average wageNot a lot of plumbers making that tbh with you
Well that's well above average for the country so good for your areaAround here that's an average wage