MMA will never have A Level athlete money

[Power!]

it will only attract unathletic dudes & washouts from other higher paying sports

 

[Sole]

 

[jojoRed]

Interesting and beautifully expressed thread. Thank you for your input.

 

[Fight Professor]

Most of them are not even washouts from another sport as they would have never made it there.

 

[Flex Plexico]

what kind of droppings do you like on your pizza, TS?

 

[Power!]

what kind of droppings do you like on your pizza, TS?

salt

 

[brian]

GSP, Jon Jones, Lesnar, Rousey & Mcgregor all make A-level athlete $.

 

[Flex Plexico]

salt

no flesh?

 

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

It's still a young sport. Top fighters make more now than they did 10 years ago and I expect that pattern to carry forward a decade from now.

 

[nanika]

the UFC has enough cash for A level payments. previously it went to the Fertittas and Dana. now it goes to investors, WME and Dana.

plus as dude above me said GSP, lesnar, mcgregor etc all received enough cash to be considered A level if we are including NHL salaries.

 

[Me&MrJones]

I think in 2028 all 600+ UFC fighters will get $20 million to show per fight and no win bonus.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

"We're not that rich!" ~ Dana White

 

[MC Paul Barman]

This is just silly.
You can't bring a upper tier athlete into mma for practical reasons. You know how many lawsuits there would be once this guy starts slaughtering grapplers from various different backgrounds?
Have some sense, man! You might not like mma fighters, but they're still human beings.

 

[KB Warrior]

Ya I’m sick of watching all these washed up basketball players fighting in a cage

 

[NotoriousMillions]

TS must be mad he couldn't pass the cut on his local fight team.

 

[Paynebringer]

Whitebelt thread confirmed...

 

[sdss]

the UFC has enough cash for A level payments. previously it went to the Fertittas and Dana. now it goes to investors, WME and Dana.

plus as dude above me said GSP, lesnar, mcgregor etc all received enough cash to be considered A level if we are including NHL salaries.

Plenty of guys in MMA have made enough money to be considered A-level if you consider the average player in any pro sports league to be A-level.

 

[SlomiGa]

I started missing reading a shitty white-belt thread. Thanks TS, it had been a while.

 

[jeremyemilio]

it will only attract unathletic dudes & washouts from other higher paying sports

MMA already has "A Level Athlete Money." Very few athletes earn $1 million in a night. Virtually zero earn $2 million in a night. $100,000 in a night is exceptional money in any sport. And even $10,000 in a night is actually okay money for a guy who is more or less unknown in his sport.

And yes, I get it that fighters need to feed their families and also need to train full time, very hard, and for long stretches. And that sucks. But it's damned near impossible to generate revenues from an athlete's training schedule, regardless of the sport. You are left with the nights that athletes compete to generate revenues, just like every other sport, and that's what fighters get paid for... their contribution to the revenues generated on that night.

That's also why they call it "Prize Fighting." You aren't earning a salary. You're competing to win a prize. One aspect of a "prize" is scarcity.

prize1
prīz/
noun

1. 1.
   a thing given as a reward to the winner of a competition or race or in recognition of another outstanding achievement.
   "the nation's most prestigious prize for contemporary art"

Competing for a prize means accepting the possibility that you might not ever achieve that thing that your were striving for.

None of which discounts any of what you've typed in the OP. I'm just offering a little bit of context for why things are as they are.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

it will only attract unathletic dudes & washouts from other higher paying sports

Three questions..

1. Do you train in martials arts or MMA
2. Have you ever met a UFC fighter before?
3. Have you ever fought another person in your life that knew what they were doing?

Theres no way you can answer yes to these questions and believe UFC fighters are unalthetic and wash outs from other sports..

The ramblings of a cave troll..