Media Mighty Mouse talks low UFC pay; made $30K/$30K and under through his third title defense

Mighty Mouse made the right choice leaving the UFC, but the question is "What if one day ONE folded like Elite XC?".
 
Why is this in WorldWide? He is talking about his UFC pay
 
elvismma said:
Mighty Mouse made the right choice leaving the UFC, but the question is "What if one day ONE folded like Elite XC?".
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Does it matter tho? He is making bank in the present and more then he would staying in the UFC. What happens in a couple of years doesn't matter since DJ doesn't have stake in the promotion
 
StonedLemur said:
If a suplex into an armbar isn't exciting as fuck I don't know what is sir lol
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Maybe there was a misunderstanding. You initially replied to a comment saying it would be stupid to like watching him and now you kinda turned it around.
I don't know what to think anymore.

I like DJ on a personal level. I don't really get the exciting argument anyways. I like watching MMA. That includes striking and grappling and everything in between.
I understand the argument that HW is more exciting than FLW but I don't really relate to it. I like all fights. The only thing I don't like are inactive fighters. And even that I can tolerate as long as the inactive fighter is winning.
 
Banana Tree's Nemesis said:
Maybe there was a misunderstanding. You initially replied to a comment saying it would be stupid to like watching him and now you kinda turned it around.
I don't know what to think anymore.

I like DJ on a personal level. I don't really get the exciting argument anyways. I like watching MMA. That includes striking and grappling and everything in between.
I understand the argument that HW is more exciting than FLW but I don't really relate to it. I like all fights. The only thing I don't like are inactive fighters. And even that I can tolerate as long as the inactive fighter is winning.
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I think DJ is one of the most exciting fighters I have ever watched.
When Anderson made guys look stupid he's the GOAT, but when DJ did it, it's because all his opponents sucked sir.

Im not sure where we got crossed up, but yeah.
 
Yikes. That's Busch league stuff right there. Then they have the audacity to take away sponsors on top of that.
 
Maybe its just me, but it seems like if I was a fighter signing a 6+ fight deal or whatever I'd have a clause added to renegotiate the contract if I claim a title. Doesn't this kind of fall on the fighter and his management to be better about this????? You hear fighters all the time who get the belt and all of a sudden a new deal is signed. I'm guessing those fighters management got that wording in there. I don't think the UFC brass would be opposed to it. So to be bitch about it after the fact seems kind of petty.
 
His pay was pretty shit until his like 5th fight.

He did make over 100k in a few of those early title defenses including this 3rd fight he mentions (Dodson) because he got a bunch of 50k bonuses for finishing / performance.

He likely didn’t have that bad of a view over his pay at the time. He came from WeC where he was payed 3-5k and 12k flat was his highest earning there. WeC fighters had decent pay bumps but it was fairly shit. STRIKEFORCE fighters different story since they had good pay coming over.
 
AfroBanana said:
His pay was pretty shit until his like 5th fight.

He did make over 100k in a few of those early title defenses including this 3rd fight he mentions (Dodson) because he got a bunch of 50k bonuses for finishing / performance.

He likely didn’t have that bad of a view over his pay at the time. He came from WeC where he was payed 3-5k and 12k flat was his highest earning there. WeC fighters had decent pay bumps but it was fairly shit. STRIKEFORCE fighters different story since they had good pay coming over.
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Have in mind before 2015 very few Champions made 300k$
 
He made 175k for his third defense but only 58k for his second vs Moraga. Thats fucking terrible.
 
CC27 said:
He made 175k for his third defense but only 58k for his second vs Moraga. Thats fucking terrible.
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He made 108k against Moraga with the 50k
bonus he received. He made 100k plus
Dodson onward with bonuses and then the new contract put him well above that base pay.

He made 90k in the first title fight (got a 50k bonus despite it being a tie). The rematch with McCall was only 40k and the first Benavidez fight was 46k.
 
AfroBanana said:
He made 108k against Moraga with the 50k
bonus he received. He made 100k plus
Dodson onward with bonuses and then the new contract put him well above that base pay.

He made 90k in the first title fight (got a 50k bonus despite it being a tie). The rematch with McCall was only 40k and the first Benavidez fight was 46k.
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Yeah with the sub of the night bonus but base pay was 29/29 for that fight. Thats still dogshit for a champ. we can go on about mma pay in general but no champ should be making less than 100k base and now seems to be the case atleast. No challenger should be making less than that too.
 
CC27 said:
Yeah with the sub of the night bonus but base pay was 29/29 for that fight. Thats still dogshit for a champ. we can go on about mma pay in general but no champ should be making less than 100k base and now seems to be the case atleast. No challenger should be making less than that too.
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Okay, you did point out he made 100k+ the fight prior so I assumed you counted the bonuses. Fair enough, he definitely relied on those bonuses to hit 6 figures a few times when he was on that shit pay.
 
Kungpowking said:
In that scenario he would also be working a hell of a lot less than the McDee's manager.
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I doubt it. Most MMA fighters are teaching classes in between having a training session in the morning and one in the evening.

Someone making only 30k guaranteed isn't sitting around doing nothing all day.

And even if he was then at least the McDonalds guy got a 401k and dental, the latter is something a fighter needs and not something you can afford easily on sub 60k with no insurance ;)
 
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