riddle me this, are MMA fighters underpaid or are athletes in general OVERPAID?

[screaminleeman]

is the question we should be asking why MMA fighters only get 15% of revenue or why should NFL players get over 50% of the revenue?

I can answer this one! The NFL does not have to worry about their athletes being maimed by a psychopath (like Javier Mendez) after they pay them those MILLIONS of dollars.

FFS, The mainstream sport players making money have mile long clauses in their contracts on what "risks to their health" that they are allowed to take without voiding their contract.

The UFC has ZERO say about what their paid fighters do after they sign the fight, contract the venue and pay for the media advertising etc.

As long as the UFC has ZERO say and the training camps have ZERO financial liability with it's paid employees going out and having Javier like A-holes attempt to murder them just weeks prior to the event, IMO the MMA fighter is the most GROSSLY overpaid athlete on EARTH!

Hey stellar idea. OUTLAW ALL MMA training camps for PROFESSIONAL MMA fighters! These FUCKTARD (every single MMA training camp on EARTH) trash is a JOKE.

Here Skullmastkid, let me put this in a way even kids might understand. You work your butt off in your paper route to buy yourself a new bike.

This bike however comes with t requirement that it be tested on a motorcross course prior to your receipt of YOUR purchased goods. These assholes at the motorcross crunch YOUR new bike into a function less scrap of metal paperweight. They with a smile on their face hand you your new crunched paperweight.

In that scenario, what would you be willing to "pay" for said bike? I will give you the CORRECT answer if you cannot come up with it yourself. The ONLY correct thing to do under these RETARDED conditions is to pay pennies on the dollar for the bike!

That is it in a nutshell. As long as Javiers are 100% legally allowed to murder UFC fighters days before a booked fight, they should be fighting for peanuts.

They IMO are BY FAR the most grossly overpaid (non-athletes) in all of Sports!

 

[capnlarge]

As soon as 10s of thousands of people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to watch you do your shitty 9-5 and millions want to watch on TV, then you'll be worth millions of dollars.

 

[LilMountain]

if a grown man can't feed a family and send his kids to college working a 9 to 5 job on the factory floor, then overgrown pituitary cases should not be getting paid millions for dunking a ball through a ring.

As soon as everyone is willing to pay as much for what that man produces as they are to watch the guy dunking as ball thru a ring he should have no problem negotiating that kind of salary

 

[Kirin]

Professional athletes in the big leagues are often underpaid. It's a cartel system where they institute salary caps. If the leagues were an open market, the stars would be paid even higher. And they would deserve it for their role in generating team revenue.

If people didn't agree with the salaries, they wouldn't be buying so much merchandise and paying so much for tickets.

Word.

In fact, salary caps tend to be in place in order to prevent dumbass owners from paying their players,most potential players, even more money because the idiots oftentimes can't help themselves. Goes to show that in fact the players aren't getting as much as they could.

 

[Kim Jong Un]

It would be a better system if an altruistic government seized the UFC and set up state run training facilities. The fighters would not get paid but would have all of their life expenses provided for them. They would appreciate the chance to fight simply to live a good life and provide a service for their fellow citizen.

 

[MCS]

They both should get 50%, while the ones paying for logistics, growth, running the show, etc need their share as well. But when UFC employees get paid more than good fighters there's a problem, and it alienates potential prospects. The NFL doesn't have this problem, as their players have a voice and thus are taken care of.

A difference between the two is how free agency works and they have rookie contracts, a league minimum and a veteran minimum among other things, so it's another topic altogether if UFC fighters having a union would be good for fans or the sport.

 

[PivotPunch]

Professional athletes in the big leagues are often underpaid. It's a cartel system where they institute salary caps. If the leagues were an open market, the stars would be paid even higher. And they would deserve it for their role in generating team revenue.

If people didn't agree with the salaries, they wouldn't be buying so much merchandise and paying so much for tickets.

yeah this

how can anyone who watches a sport claim the athletes are overpaid? You are paying their salary by watching and buying associated products. The athletes are what you are paying for and the more people watch the more they deserve.
People bitching about their shit jobs are ridiculous. Athletes can only work into their 30s or very rarely 40s also they sacrifice most of their social life, are under immense pressure and sacrifice their health especially in combat sports and often they have to care about their retirement themselves.

Claiming they are overpaid is pure envy and simply not true

 

[skullmaskkid]

It would be a better system if an altruistic government seized the UFC and set up state run training facilities. The fighters would not get paid but would have all of their life expenses provided for them. They would appreciate the chance to fight simply to live a good life and provide a service for their fellow citizen.

I think that's how they had it in the Soviet union and Cuba. seems very sensible.