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Can you imagine professional soccer players/NBA players holding down a 40 hour a week second job while still playing/training at the highest level???
The quality of their performances would clearly suffer, you mong.
MMA is not a sport with the revenue or infrastructure base that major sports have.
Most elite athletes in those sports are practically trained from birth for one thing. All through school they are focused on shooting goals or blocking shots or whatever.
MMA currently is basically a hobby still. The money and infrastructure doesn't exist yet. It's made up of washed up crossover athletes and martial arts hobbyists. There are very few career martial artists in the world.
It's not the UFC's responsibility to subsidize the entire sport of MMA, even still they're doing their best with what resources they have at their disposal.
All these other sports are subsidized by states, local, and even federal governments. No government is paying to subsidize the training for MMA fighters.
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