https://www.google.com/amp/s/thespo...eiveson-figueiredo-career-earnings-fox11/amp/
It was a dumb bootlicking UFC comment. You don't have to buy PPVs to criticize UFC for fighter pay.
It’s completely made up though and is based primarily on the benavidez 1 reported payout, before he became champ. It assumed his base went up 10% to $110k after winning the belt. Benavidez made $150k base as a challenger.
You don’t think it’s a bit ironic that a bunch of posters who don’t pay for ppv, who keep his ppv #’s below thresholds, complain that he’s not getting a % of ppv sales?
How did the ESPN deal kill negotiation?
Benavidez has been there longer so his pay makes sense and fig wasn't the champ he missed weight in their first fight. I know it's an estimate based how how most contracts work and increase in pay. Like I said it's not 100% but it's better than just saying numbered based off of pure speculation.
I posted earlier that MM chose a higher base pay instead of getting ppv points. He wanted the guaranteed money instead of making a bet. He knew he wasn’t a draw of the other major stars.
Agreed it makes sense that’s benavidez made more for that particular fight. But not that fig would only get a small bump when he became champ, still making less than benavidez.
What is Rizz your account too? Weird. How do you know he chose that? Do you have a link to an article?
The ESPN deal guarantees the UFC money. In return for that guarantee ESPN takes the lion's share of the PPV money. The only thing extra the UFC gets and can offer fighters is whatever they sell over that and fighters only get a few pennies per PPV sold. The UFC has no incentive to share.
Weird that you have an issue with me pointing out a fact to help the conversation. I posted the quote earlier in this thread.
The ufc has tv deals in territories all over the world. Russia deal expires this year. And the ufc is working towards their next deals. They can’t just underdeliver and say fuck it our money is guaranteed. Their franchise value is based on WAY more than just the current ESPN deal (they are 40% complete on a $1.5B deal).
The only fighters we have any numbers for were some of the most successful ones and the most well paid of their peers the company ever had. They made in the neighborhood of $1.5 to $2+ per PPV and it scaled up based on the #s sold. This was also from a time when fighters at the top were paid the most in the company history and had the most leverage. It seems unlikely that this practice continued when the fighters lost their leverage.
Bigger names make more because they sell more ppv, not just because their $ per ppv is much higher. And some of the #’s we are aware of were alvarez and overeem. Not exactly ufc superstars.
The exact figures aren't known... but when the ESPN+ deal first came out, @FrankieNYC uncovered that
Woodley brought to light that the reason he wasn't defending his title on a McGregor card is because McGregor demanded that Mac and maybe his opponent are the only one's who get a piece of that. So Woodley would not have gotten any PPV points on a Mac card... where as he was getting PPV points on any other card.
Nobody knows what fighters are paid outside of court cases where the contract and payouts are made public. Everything else is rumor and/or estimate or a guess.
