Is UFC and BELLATOR pay generally about the same?

[CombatScience]

Besides the top guys in the UFC like mcgregor and whoever else makes descent money..is BELLATOR pretty much on par with UFC pay..or does anybody know? The former elite guys who switched over like Henderson or Sonnen, I wonder if their pay is about the same.

 

[Schoolboy Q]

Bellator pay is garbage.

 

[Darkart]

Bellator has way less guys, both the UFC and Bellator are comparable, with the few top guys getting paid, and everyone else fighting to make the poverty line.

Bellator lets guys have independent sponsors which helps a bit.

 

[Shaddows]

Besides the top guys in the UFC like mcgregor and whoever else makes descent money..is BELLATOR pretty much on par with UFC pay..or does anybody know? The former elite guys who switched over like Henderson or Sonnen, I wonder if their pay is about the same.

the pay to the top athletes are about the same (plus the fighters can have sponsors).
They do this, so their talented guys don't go to the UFC.

HOWEVER, the middle of the pack and lower tiered guys receive less than in the UFC. Then again, they allow sponsors, so this probably evens out for them.

 

[wufabufa]

undercard fighters in Bellator and WSOF get paid peanuts.

 

[robjenkins2]

Bellator has way less guys, both the UFC and Bellator are comparable, with the few top guys getting paid, and everyone else fighting to make the poverty line.

Bellator lets guys have independent sponsors which helps a bit.

The sponsorship market has dried up for anyone outside the UFC. People think fighters are making 6 figures in Bellator on in the cage sponsors?? Joe Lauzon broke it down.

 

[tithas]

the pay to the top athletes are about the same (plus the fighters can have sponsors).
They do this, so their talented guys don't go to the UFC.

HOWEVER, the middle of the pack and lower tiered guys receive less than in the UFC. Then again, they allow sponsors, so this probably evens out for them.

Not really. At Bellator 160 the prelim guys got 1.5/1.5 and 2/2. Even their names like geogir and Saad got less than 20/20. Only the top guys have comparable pay and the top bellator guys make what midcard UFC guys do. Entry pay in the UFC is 10/10 and 12/12 so the prelim guys are making way less and no local gas station sponsor is making that difference up.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/8/2...aries-benson-henderson-makes-75k-for-win-over

 

[tithas]

The sponsorship market has dried up for anyone outside the UFC. People think fighters are making 6 figures in Bellator on in the cage sponsors?? Joe Lauzon broke it down.

Sponsorship has been dying for years because fighters overvalued their marketability and so did sponsors. The sponsors were not getting a ROI on fighters so many reduced their payouts or pulled out completely. Many could not pay them what they agreed on as it was.

 

[ZuffaExecutive]

Bellator has way less guys, both the UFC and Bellator are comparable, with the few top guys getting paid, and everyone else fighting to make the poverty line.

Bellator lets guys have independent sponsors which helps a bit.

except we hear how the guys cant get sponsors now because the whole market died with the reebok deal

But bellators pay is horrible,most guys get paid less then the sponsor money reebok payouts for an event.There are the exceptions though such as tito,chael etc

 

[Gloansy]

The undercard guys in Bellator get paid Jack shit...Like 2,000/2,000.

Whereas minimum pay in UFC is 10,000/10,000.

But as other ppl said, Bellator allows independent sponsors, so for fighters who have solid management or the persistence to seek out sponsors themselves, that could add 10k to 20k too to their payout, which would make it a little more even.

Not saying everyone in Bellator makes that much from sponsors though, although some of the more well-known / more elite fighters may make more, on top of the way better purses they get to begin with.

 

[robjenkins2]

Sponsorship has been dying for years because fighters overvalued their marketability and so did sponsors. The sponsors were not getting a ROI on fighters so many reduced their payouts or pulled out completely. Many could not pay them what they agreed on as it was.

Sponsorship tax also priced a lot of them out of the market.

 

[Sakuraba7]

Bellator has way less guys, both the UFC and Bellator are comparable, with the few top guys getting paid, and everyone else fighting to make the poverty line.

Bellator lets guys have independent sponsors which helps a bit.

Bellator also lets a lot of their fighters fight for other organizations and overseas.

 

[Shaddows]

Not really. At Bellator 160 the prelim guys got 1.5/1.5 and 2/2. Even their names like geogir and Saad got less than 20/20. Only the top guys have comparable pay and the top bellator guys make what midcard UFC guys do. Entry pay in the UFC is 10/10 and 12/12 so the prelim guys are making way less and no local gas station sponsor is making that difference up.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/8/2...aries-benson-henderson-makes-75k-for-win-over

Agreed, but if you add the sponsors (taking by what fighters reported they lost when the UFC took it out), it surely evens out for everyone.
After all it is not very far from 6/6 the UFC beginners get...

 

[Me&MrJones]

Bellator pay is garbage.

And no 2,500 Reebok moneys bro. Kids gotta eat.

 

[Tentacle]

The sponsorship market has dried up for anyone outside the UFC. People think fighters are making 6 figures in Bellator on in the cage sponsors?? Joe Lauzon broke it down.

Link to Lauzon?

 

[Touch of Death]

Wasn't Mitrione making more? Not too sure tho.

 

[tithas]

Agreed, but if you add the sponsors (taking by what fighters reported they lost when the UFC took it out), it surely evens out for everyone.
After all it is not very far from 6/6 the UFC beginners get...

UFC beginners get 10/10 and 12/12

 

[robjenkins2]

Link to Lauzon?

I'll see if I can find it, can't remember where it was from. Sirius XM maybe with Luke Thomas.

 

[Sharkey]

UFC beginners get 10/10 and 12/12

The fighters on the UFC prelims should be getting paid a lot more than their counterparts on the Bellator prelims simply for the fact that there is a much bigger assigned monetary value to those spots on the UFC prelims. The UFC prelims are shown on a paid subscription like Fight Pass and then on FS1, which is a big part of the Fox's $100 million deal with the UFC. The platforms those UFC prelims are shown on also gives added value to the event sponsorships since, in the case of the FS1 portion of the card, those sponsors are getting an extra 2 hours of advertising time in front of a million viewers or so. The UFC directly makes millions & millions annually due the the platforms their prelim portion of their cards are on. Whereas Bellator, with their prelims being shown on nothing but a free live stream, probably make next to nothing with their prelim portion of a card.

 

[Shaddows]

UFC beginners get 10/10 and 12/12

good to know they improved. 6/6 was terrible! Probably wouldn't pay for training & material!!
Was a shame for the biggest MMA promotion to be so cheap.