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Its not about performances its about revenue. WWE currently has 240 wrestlers (actor athletes) they also pay referees (actors) not sure how many but the WWE pays them and the UFC does not as the commissions pay the staff. UFC has approx 578 fighters under contract.How many performances for WWE get from that 250K athlete? I assume a lot more than UFC fighters which means they have a smaller roster and can pay more because the pie is being cut up between less people and still maintain a shitload of profit.
Last I checked it was about 2:1 for the number of WWE people vs UFC. UFC had $1.1B revenue and the approx % paid to fighters is 15% which = $165,000,000. WWE % of revenue paid to wrestlers isn't readily available and I am not going to dig too deep. I know that some of their info is public as a publicly traded company but I have never heard of anyone coming up with a figure of a % of revenue paid to athletes since they aren't a sport where the UFC is still considered a sport.
In 2021 the WWE reported $1.095B revenue with $608m expenses. part of that is labour but not all of it of course.
It will be interesting moving forward with WME being a public company to see how fighter pay rises.