Mayweather rips Dana White: He Lives Better Than His Fighters!

[Queen B]

"Its easy for another guy to speak when he's not in there in a contact sport.

Its easy to get a ton of money off these UFC guys while they're not really getting paid and he's living better than the UFC guys"

 

[ChoKuRei]

Hes the owner of the company..

 

[Bmartin89]

Fact

 

[WhitebeltXL]

Well to be fair, without Dana/Fertitas, most of these guys wouldn't have a sport to have a career in.

Though we can all agree most of the fighters deserve more share of the pie.

 

[RudimarChute]

Can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with Mayweather, although I'm not sure I agree that the fighters are supposed to have more money than the CEO. Fact of the matter is Dana has half a billion and there are fighters getting $12,000 for title fights though.

 

[Natesblackshirt]

I've been saying this for a while, it's terrible UFC management gets paid more than the fighters. What kind of crooked company is this??

 

[KB Warrior]

Because all the guys Mayweather promotes live like Floyd

 

[IIIIIIII]

read between the lines of what mayweather is getting across. he sees that setting up and promoting fights is a two-way street. it should be equal across the board, like most of the major sports are. the fighters should be getting a lot more money on average.

 

[DetachedOrchid]

Usually your boss does live better than you. Derp.

 

[tasticles]

Can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with Mayweather, although I'm not sure I agree that the fighters are supposed to have more money than the CEO. Fact of the matter is Dana has half a billion and there are fighters getting $12,000 for title fights though.

That's why he's a billionaire. I can't fault Dana too much that most of the fighters are stupid or have horrible managers. You can't sign a contract and then bitch about the terms after the fact. As long as people will fight for peanuts, it will remain the status quo. Some of the bigger names are waking up though.

 

[eyenomas]

I've been saying this for a while, it's terrible UFC management gets paid more than the fighters. What kind of crooked company is this??

it's a crooked kind of crooked company..duh. str8 gangstas.

 

[Loiosh]

Well to be fair, without Dana/Fertitas, most of these guys wouldn't have a sport to have a career in.

This is very true.

When Zuffa bought the UFC, fighters were getting paid next to nothing. Zuffa invested a lot of money, operating at a huge loss, and scratched and clawed until MMA was profitable. Fighter pay is exponentially better now than in the beginning, and it's getting better all the time.

Though we can all agree most of the fighters deserve more share of the pie.

Probably, and they're slowly getting there. Ten years ago I used to ask fighter pay increase advocates what would be reasonable, and Zuffa surpassed the numbers they put out there long ago. The fighters could make 90% of the revenue and you'd still have people complaining, because fuck the man. Apparently the fighters are the whole story and the guys that built the platform and invested tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars are just leeches living off the toil of others.

The top boxers are making more money because they don't need the best platform, they can sell pay per views on their name anywhere. Maybe one day guys like Conor will be able to do the same, but without the UFC, who would have known about Conor in the first place? He was already a champion elsewhere, but how many eyes were on him? How many were paying to see him fight? MMA is still growing, it's a very young sport, and I have no idea how far it will go. If it gets popular enough, the current pay balance won't be sustainable, and the fighters will get paid more, or at least the superstars will, and probably the mid tier guys. The bottom guys in boxing still get paid nothing, so not sure what will happen in MMA.

 

[Mixedfights]

Who cares what Mayweather has to say?

 

[deviake]

I wonder what the purpose of that statement is.

 

[Pressure]

Because all the guys Mayweather promotes live like Floyd

Well he was a fighter himself...

 

[phantomlord]

Usually your boss does live better than you. Derp.

You really think Tom Brady makes less than Belichick?

 

[SKITZADACTYL]

yeah and arum lives better than the boxers.

stupid.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Hes the owner of the company..

... President.
But yah, if he's not living better than the fighters then has crazy integrity.
But he doesn't. He's got crazy money while most struggle.

 

[lifelessheap]

Because all the guys Mayweather promotes live like Floyd

I always cringe when I see a boxer on a huge boxing card getting paid like 1,500 dollars.

yikes

 

[DetachedOrchid]

You really think Tom Brady makes less than Belichick?

Touche

But I'd argue that roger goddell is brady's boss.