How do fighters make a living during long breaks

[tritestill]

Stipe is firefighter and does Instagram ads. Pretty sure some fighters can get endorsements and do seminars and other events or get another line for work.

 

[Poirierfan]

Invite her over just to shut the door in her face lol.

Lol, good idea actually.

 

[StonedLemur]

Lol, good idea actually.

Hey, can you come over?

Knocks on the door, and we say "oh we thought we called somebody else"...and slam the door lol.

 

[oldschoolmmafan]

Just because someone has much money does not mean they do not want to work and contribute to society in some way, or simply take pride in a hard days work.

 

[MarloStanfield]

Selling a kidney

 

[BangBang]

Sponsors, gambling, crime, government payouts, ebay

 

[Neck&Neck]

Hitman, general labourer, stunt double, OnlyStans

 

[Thawing Mammoth]

Cattle rustling

 

[Kb7]

Crute is done, he's probably going to find a career and put his energy into that.

Answer to your question, most fighters on their off time has to stay busy. Most of them has friends & family in the trades so most do something in that nature. It's really depending where your reside, most fighters down in South America can get a long way with 1-2 fights a year. Fighters in the middle in the middle & upper pay scale are much smarter with their money and made investments so they have a steady cash flow coming in, while other fighters like Tyron Woodley burned through millions because no one thought him how to manage his money & he wondered why he was broke even Josh Koscheck who did okay in the UFC invested his money in apartments/housing and are renting them out.

in the end you have two types. People who are smart and modest with their money & then you got guys who burn through their cash as quickly as they got it.

 

[zxyss25]

Maybe some fighters invest in stock options during their downtimes.

In Sleepy Brandon's economy, that will lose money

 

[z99]

WWE
Seminars
Twitch Streamer

 

[Eric O]

I believe Gregor has well off family and some small businesses of his own. I think I remember saying something like that in a podcast

His fam is avg middle class. He won an Div 1 NCAA championship and is an A+ level private wrestling coach in NY. A lot of kids he trains end up getting full rides to Div 1 wrestling schools. I know he does very well with it.

 

[Lee_]

Bouncing and security work was always a solid option. I could do mornings or overnights for security contracts and it tended not to be as physically demanding and draining as labor or warehouse work. Also if you're halfway decent looking and have the size/appearance, as a lot of fighters do...you get better paying security jobs quick. A lot of fighters for sure just coach though. Several fighters I've known in Bellator or LFA still living with their parents in their 20s and even early 30s.

MMA fighters are boomerang kids lol

 

[Bork Neslar]

They hibernate.

 

[regmma123]

OnlyStans

now that sounds like a site these fruity sherfronters can dig

 

[2004 account]

So I was reading about Jimmy Crute needing to take a long break from the sport

While Jimmy did appears on some main card PPVs, I figured he probably made a good living while he was fighting, but not enough savings to support him and a family if he took a break

Same for Gregor Gillepsie, seems like he rarely fights

Or Kevin Lee, who can now retire, but I would assume would need another job

Al Iaquinta had to go into real estate

Ed Herman had to become a truck driver during long breaks

Dude some ufc fighters are poor and need a second job despite fighting actively...nevermind long breaks

 

[DoctorTaco]

Of course the most common is working for a gym. 2nd most common is probably owning a gym.

going rate is still around 25 a class. There’s money to be made doing privates but you’ve got to know how to hustle the game, and even then it’s fucking exhausting. My best year I made 72k teaching boxing lessons and I couldn’t imagine doing that and training for a high level mma fight.

 

[mmamxfan]

They grow pot? Well that's a fantastic way to make money!

I'm gonna give Crute a call right now

Not any more. Legalization killed that hustle, at least in California it did. All the growers are now dealing meth, heroin, and fentynal. Kinda said to see the downfall of a once striving county. People, and sometimes 12 year old kids, are dying left and right from pills an powders laced with fentynal.

 

[cheesus]

Dillon Danis from his mom

 

[pick999]

I thought all ufc fighters were millionaires