Joshua getting $100 million: MMA is the A - class sport with C - level money

You give ufc fighters a lot of money and they all turn into bunch of divas that only want "money fights" and to box Mayweather.
 
Nothing stopping MMA fighters, go get a promoter and promote your own events.All I am hearing is excuses.
 
If not fighting for title I dont think there are too much especially at lighter weights

there are so many belts that basically any fighter worth anything has some sort of belt.
 
The problem is zero transparency. Nobody knows how much money is flowing into White and Co's coffers. Every business has expenses and there is a large roster of fighters and employees involved in the UFC vs Boxing. But nobody knows.

It doesn't seem fair that Nate Diaz got $20,000 before fighting McGregor .. while Dana White is at the high limit room in the Palms Casino in Vegas, betting $20,000 per hand - for hours on end. Something is seriously wrong with that. And then you consider that Dana's Wealth is nothing compared to the owners.

It doesn't seem right. But there is no way to know because it's all behind closed doors.
 
i don't care how good he is, no professional athlete is worth $100m dollars.
 
the UFC has their main event but they bolster that with big undercards
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i don't care how good he is, no professional athlete is worth $100m dollars.

Well they are bringing in way more than what they are paid. So they literally are worth at least that. You think the extra money should go to the promoters who aren't risking their health???
 
If not fighting for title I dont think there are too much especially at lighter weights
still, there are more divisions in boxing and 4 belts in each division. even if we only count up the champions - and i'd say most of them actually do make 1M per fight - that's still a lot more millionaires than in MMA. obviously not every belt holder gets that kind of money, but most champs are getting paid really well.

there are lighter guys not seeing big money, but even that isn't universally true. mikey garcia made 1M to clown broner, and 8M to fight spence. none of those 3 names are some huge stars. lomachenko fights at 135 and has been making more than a million per fight for a long time. it's rumoured that naoya inoue, who fights at 118lbs, gets a million per fight in japan.
 
Nothing stopping MMA fighters, go get a promoter and promote your own events.All I am hearing is excuses.
nothing except a complete lack of regulation that allows the UFC to not only run a monopoly, but also serve as both promoter and sanctioning body.

other than that, yeah, these guys are completely free to do whatever they want!
 
still, there are more divisions in boxing and 4 belts in each division. even if we only count up the champions - and i'd say most of them actually do make 1M per fight - that's still a lot more millionaires than in MMA. obviously not every belt holder gets that kind of money, but most champs are getting paid really well.

there are lighter guys not seeing big money, but even that isn't universally true. mikey garcia made 1M to clown broner, and 8M to fight spence. none of those 3 names are some huge stars. lomachenko fights at 135 and has been making more than a million per fight for a long time. it's rumoured that naoya inoue, who fights at 118lbs, gets a million per fight in japan.
Hey I am not a boxing fan and even I know those names,I also said a few fighters doing more than million just top guys for example 10 ranked LW guy makes a million in a fight???
 
We need the Ali Act applied to MMA. This will give the athletes more power to get their fair share of the money that the sport generates.

UFC does not want that to happen. They hired big shot firm to lobby Congress to stop the Ali Act being modified to accomodate MMA.
http://mmapayout.com/2016/06/ufc-hires-newly-formed-lobbying-firm-to-address-ali-act-expansion/
The took this action in response to this Bill in the H.O.R
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th...365/actions?q={"search":["markwayne+mullin"]}
 
Can't negotiate the same way with 1 boss as with 2 or more. The money is there, but the tools to negotiate aren't comparable.
 
Why don't fighters just go to Bellator if the pay is so bad? If Bellator gave fighters a % cut instead of a flat fee, and if enough big names moved to Bellator, and if Bellator sold a PPV for cheaper than the UFC, you'd think they would start to seriously compete.

There must be something else afoot. Maybe the money comes from the UFC brand itself, which makes the fighters have less pull since outside options aren't as lucrative.
MMA pay is bad in general, the biggest brand can afford to pay the better money, but its still far from boxing, GGG got 2.5million vs Jacobs, who got 1.75million, in a fight that sold like 200k....for the UFC to give a garanteed purse of 2M it had to be Conor, who got like 50m fighting Floyd, all of this purses not including any PPV points or sponsorship money, with the UFC its the brand that does a big part of the draw, they put cards almost every week and its always UFC name first, they even have uniforms.

I dont think is that easy for fighters to start getting paid boxing money, they would need people from boxing to start actually promoting MMA fights with big names, not what Golden Boy did with 2 old man fighting each other, but thats unlikely, there are no orgs who hold belts, as the promotion holds them and its been like that since forever, union could be the answer, but they would need the top guys to sign, and those guys seem happy with the current model so most likely it will never change.
 
Easier to build stars in boxing. More guys who are actually undefeated. I'm sure Jones and Khabib are doing fine money wise.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The UFC is a closed book whereas boxing is an open sport full of multiple bodies.

If the UFC tell you a fighter is a star, then sooner or later (after enough of a media push) he will be star. Boxing is the school of hard knocks. You don’t get to the top without going through the ranks.
 
Well they are bringing in way more than what they are paid. So they literally are worth at least that. You think the extra money should go to the promoters who aren't risking their health???

nah, it's nothing like that. just it's kind of insane to think a guy is getting paid $100m to punch a guy in the head or throw a ball and teachers/police officers/construction workers and other jobs that matter get paid shit. i'm not hating on the pro athletes, they're only playing the game, it's just crazy is all.
 
i don't care how good he is, no professional athlete is worth $100m dollars.
They are if they bring those $100m back and more so the business can be a success, some claim Conor got $100m from the Floyd fight, yet i doubt he made more than $10m fighting Khabib, in what i believe it was the biggest UFC fight ever, and he was the B-side vs Floyd, he got more money, i guess athletes are worth more than $100m, they just need to get fair pay.
 
Joshua is a 1 in a million. For every fighter that makes 100 million in boxing, there are tons and tons and tons and tons of boxers who make next to nothing.

I used to work with a guy who was a pro MW boxer, and he retired at 33, he told me there is no money in it, and his record was 22-8 , he made peanuts and most of them do. Its about who you know and what promoters you have and managers etc. You only know Floyd and Joshua and the big names, 90% of them make very little
 
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