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Can I get an english translation please. I do understand every word just not as a single phrase.
Bestow upon him several ounces of cocaine.
Can I get an english translation please. I do understand every word just not as a single phrase.
I am gonna assume you meant file taxes.
Those people don't have to file, because their income is very low.
The UFC isn't a money laundering scheme. their guys pay taxes like everyone else.
They don't disclose it so that they can use it as a reward for fighters and not have it used in negotiations.
First reply nailed it. It's for tax purposes.
The UFC is a private company. They have to publicly give the salaries for show/win/lose money for commission purposes. All other pay is under the table.
It benefits the UFC to give as low numbers as possible and to talk as little about pay as they can to keep from getting eaten alive by taxes.
Randy Couture's contract is public record thanks to him suing the UFC many years ago. If people took the time to read his contract, they would get an idea just how much these guys actually make and how the salary list after every PPV gets posted is just for show and shouldn't be taken seriously. It would be like me saying how much money I made an hour but giving no more details on how many hours a week I work, bonuses or incentives I might be making. It doesn't tell the whole story.
I've never understood people who argue "the fighters arent underpaid, they get locker room bonuses!"
why do you think the bonuses aren't disclosed while the other pay is? because they don't exist or because they're so shamefully small they may as well not exist.
Wow...6 examples out of hundreds and hundreds of fighters over many years. Quite the sample size.
Bestow upon him several ounces of cocaine.
UFC discloses the minimum they are required to: Show and win money in sanctioned districts. Some of those commissions release the numbers to the public, and some of them dont. There's no reason on earth they should disclose any more than that about the money they pay out.
Many thanks. Man I feel old now.
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Wow...6 examples out of hundreds and hundreds of fighters over many years. Quite the sample size.
There's more examples of fighters saying they're broke and got paid peanuts. Those examples vastly outnumber any fantasy locker room bonuses.
No, because of taxes
This is one of those cases where you have two extremes of an argument and both are wrong.
One extreme says locker room bonuses are made up or completely insignificant. This isn't true because several fighters, both in and outside the UFC, have come out in favor of how significant their bonuses are.
The other extreme says fighter pay is not a problem because you have bonuses, while knowing NOTHING about just how much those bonuses are. So if a fighter is getting 16k for a fight, they'l argue "You really think they just got 16k? They all get a bonus!"
Bonuses are variable, for all we know that guy got 5-10k on top of his 16k. An unknown bonus is not a good excuse to pay ridiculously low salaries.
So for me it's somewhere in between. It seems UFC is usually quite generous with their bonuses, but they still need to make the discloses salaries somewhat reasonable.
I've never understood people who argue "the fighters arent underpaid, they get locker room bonuses!"
why do you think the bonuses aren't disclosed while the other pay is? because they don't exist or because they're so shamefully small they may as well not exist.
Lemme tell you something, whitebelt-noob-who-rehashes-old-shit. This topic was done to death years ago. It's 2015 and you're still not over it. For the sake of everyone here, please, get a life.
Okay okay, let's set one thing straight. NOBODY on Sherdog should tell anyone else on Sherdog.... they they ought get a life.