You don't have any idea how it works. They pay exactly depending on how much the contractors and employees make. The NFL gets more per "eyeball" than the UFC, it isn't even comparable. But then, I have spent my life working in advertising and marketing with companies like Nike, and Adidas. So I can't expect some random sherdog keyboard warrior, who is probably not even out of high school, to understand something so complicated. This is not a black and white issue. Why does everyone act like it is? The bottom line, UFC fighters got screwed. The ONLY reason this deal was signed was because a. Zuffa brass gets paid, best way for them to cut out the 3rd party sponsors and managers and get a piece of the action b. the fighters had no say in it.
In a sport like NFL, the player union would have a huge say in this and they would never agree to something like this. Here, Dana White cried and whined how the managers were screwing fighters and this would fix it. So now they made it so that is not a problem, and they still get a big piece of any contract that a UFC fighter can sign. Double dipping, and screwing the fighters out of every penny they can. Such an evil bastard.
I think all the legal trouble coming is going to be the bane of Dana. He is going to step down, and Bellaforce will grow, while UFC becomes more and more stagnant. About 140 days left in the year, and I have not been impressed by anything UFC has done. Biggest show of the year, and people were talking about drama with WSoF. What do they have left? The last 3rd of the year is going to be slow for MMA it seems.