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this sport isnt for the fighters. never has been. its been for a select few and the ones who run the show. for every guy who wants fair pay there are 10 trailer park idiots who will take his place for less. they should just move the power slap roster over to the ufc and boot all the fighters who wine.
That is easy to say, but that really isn't true.
If sports could get away with it there would be no unions in other sports. But when media outlets are paying you billions they demand a certain level of athlete/competition. The UFC is now into this crazy world of one countries media deal by itself is paying you over a billion there will be an expected quality of content. On a smaller level you see it even with the Middle east cards that those countries pay good money to host for it. Paramount isn't going to sit back after investing that kind of money and watch fighters bitch and complain or walk away because the UFC will hoard most of every dollar. That is going to cause a lot of issues between the UFC and Paramount and any future media deals.
I'm not sure how he UFC is going to handle it all, but business as usual of fighter pay is going to cause more issues than the UFC has ever had to deal with and issues between their biggest media outlet.