Former UFC fighter John Alessio now drives cabs in Vegas

[eiyuu]

it is sad to hear when the early fighters made peanuts to do what the fighters of today are being paid a lot more to do. but that's the way it goes for lots of sports. the football and baseball players of the past didn't make nearly the amount of money the current ones are making.

It's the same with the other sports. A lot of the older stars from Football are pissed that players are getting millions when they got peanuts to play both sides of the ball.

Since this sport is young too, it's a sad truth to accept about the earlier fighters.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Mate, there are professional football (soccer) stars who retired and went onto work on fucking family member farms. And they were paid a damn sight more than even the better paid MMA fighters

There is nothing weird about this whatsoever. Just because you choose to do MMA, it doesn't give you a given right to earn enough to live comfortably when you retire.

 

[Rational Poster]

meanwhile dana made 400 million this year

LEL.

meanwhile you still don't know who this guy fucking is even when someone posts pictures of him for you to look at.

LEL

 

[eiyuu]

He's actually 0-5 in the UFC and had a title fight against pat Miletich where he got paid 10 grand.

Yup, well before Zuffa owned the UFC and fighters started to get paid more.

 

[Frozenkilt]

If that's the case then the price to get the degree should reflect that. This is exactly why I stopped going to school it didn't take me long to realize that the whole thing was a rip off. Once I started seeing nearly every job asking for a degree or similar experience I realized I didn't need it and I just needed a company to give me a chance so I could get the experience.

Depends on what degree too. Go into a STEM and your chances probably go up a lot. Bachelors of arts, business, etc? Better learn to hussle. Engineering? Maybe your chances go up. Depending on the type and where you are.

And to everyone with the NFL/NBA type comments....lots of them end up dirt poor at the end too. Athletics is a chance at a very bright, very shiny brass ring. But very, very few get it.

 

[Tamriel Terror]

Yes that's actually good pay for just coming out of college.

i was looking at a position as an underwriter at a local company that starts at 56k. Senior underwriters can make between like 80k-100k+. A lot of people that I was in class with are already working in banks, insurance companies, financial advising firms, etc.

I get what your saying though. You really need to do some research before wasting time with a useless or hard to use degree (liberal arts, history, writing, philosophy, etc.)

Shit like business, engineering, IT, science can make you fucking bank though. One of the dudes I work with has a daughter whose 25 and has a degree in sports medicine or something and she makes 90k+

 

[Hoof Hearted]

He has a job. He seems happy. I don't see the problem.

If it's Conor McGregor in a few years driving a cab around Dublin let me know.

 

[method115]

i was looking at a position as an underwriter at a local company that starts at 56k. Senior underwriters can make between like 80k-100k+. A lot of people that I was in class with are already working in banks, insurance companies, financial advising firms, etc.

I get what your saying though. You really need to do some research before wasting time with a useless or hard to use degree (liberal arts, history, writing, philosophy, etc.)

Shit like business, engineering, IT, science can make you fucking bank though. One of the dudes I work with has a daughter whose 25 and has a degree in sports medicine or something and she makes 90k+

Yep it's all about the degree you get. My cousin got some bachelors degree in arts or something like that. He called me during his last semester after sending me a text with a link to a yahoo article stating that his degree was the #1 most useless degree. He had been going to school for like 8 years at this point. We both just died fucking laughing. Fortunately for him he made it work and now he's running his own business making signs and things like that for companies and it's doing great.

 

[TestosterOWN]

Las Vegas metro cops can make over 80k easily with overtime.

 

[method115]

Las Vegas metro cops can make over 80k easily with overtime.

Yea cops don't get paid well as far as base salary but they can make some real money with all the extra work they can get. On top of that they often get extra money if they live in the city they reside over. Some apartments will also give you a discount on top of that.

 

[Homervanderjaz]

Why?

He's working, he looks good.

Apart from a tiny number of superstars, ex-athletes do have to work after retiring from sports.

AND driving a cab in Vegas probably affords him knowledge of where the bitches at.

wow , I never thought that trying to be a professional athlete might be a risky life decision

maybe he should have gone to college more often instead of to the gym if he didn't want to end up driving cabs

If everyone thought like that where would we be, no fighters=no MMA. He had the ballz to follow his dream, did you?

 

[Jedi Judah]

His a good looking guy, should do the american version of Fake Taxi

 

[azerty]

i understand complaining that 10k/10k is not enough or complaining that the fighters don't get a fair share of the profits but it's ridiulous to expect any fighter to be able to retire at 30 and never work again in his life, MMA is a niche sport, deal with it, just because you decided to be an mma fighter and got a few fight in the ufc doesn't mean you made it, the guy knew what he was getting into

 

[chubbman]

There are guys who fight every weekend who work full time jobs. They make their choice just like everyone else.

 

[tithas]

If that's the case then the price to get the degree should reflect that. This is exactly why I stopped going to school it didn't take me long to realize that the whole thing was a rip off. Once I started seeing nearly every job asking for a degree or similar experience I realized I didn't need it and I just needed a company to give me a chance so I could get the experience.

There are plenty of vocations where a degree is not needed and there are tons of useless degrees. Just having one means nothing anymore it's having the right one that is key...

 

[Blayt7hh]

I agree that fighter should make enough that they don't need to work while they are in the UFC. I don't believe they should make enough to retire just because they made it to the UFC. So if he isn't in the UFC anymore, then this says nothing about fighter pay to me

 

[SlicerDM]

That's a fairly dumb comment, even for Sherdog standards. Any idiot can be a fighter. That's why so many of them ARE idiots.

You can't be a fighter, especially on the elite level.

Don't be a retard. Not everyone can be a pro fighter on the pro level.

 

[SlicerDM]

If that's the case then the price to get the degree should reflect that. This is exactly why I stopped going to school it didn't take me long to realize that the whole thing was a rip off. Once I started seeing nearly every job asking for a degree or similar experience I realized I didn't need it and I just needed a company to give me a chance so I could get the experience.

Maybe you should get a trade's degree.


You know where the money and work is at.

 

[tombombadil]

Yes perhaps, but you can't overlook the fact that he only had 5 fights in the UFC and lost 4 of them. His first UFC fight was 16 years ago, not like they got a lot of money then (not like lower tier fighters get plenty now but still).

And on the other side, the guy did something he loved doing for over 17 years, got to travel the whole world for it. Now he's only 37 years old, so what he still need another job right now? The way things are going in Belgium I will have to work untill I'm 68 before you get a pension.

Good post.

 

[mjmj]

You can't be a fighter, especially on the elite level.

Don't be a retard. Not everyone can be a pro fighter on the pro level.

Sure they can, they just choose not to. I was going to say all you need is two arms and two legs, but you apparently don't even need all four limbs.