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As any intelligent in the know UFC fan knows, the UFC is notoriously cheap with paying fighters.
One problem that arises when fighters get more pay, however, is that they tend to fight less (see Nate Diaz, McGregor).
One possible solution to solve both these problems is to create a retirement system. Keep the standard pay system as it currently to pay out the fighters, but create a fund for each fighter. Every fight they get double the current amount-- half now, half upon retirement.
To ensure they are actually retired you could make it so they have to wait a year and a half to receive their money without fights, or be over a certain age (38 or so).
Doubling fighter pay would actually start being reasonable with how underpaid they are currently.
Ill post some rebuttals to common arguments in the next post.
One problem that arises when fighters get more pay, however, is that they tend to fight less (see Nate Diaz, McGregor).
One possible solution to solve both these problems is to create a retirement system. Keep the standard pay system as it currently to pay out the fighters, but create a fund for each fighter. Every fight they get double the current amount-- half now, half upon retirement.
To ensure they are actually retired you could make it so they have to wait a year and a half to receive their money without fights, or be over a certain age (38 or so).
Doubling fighter pay would actually start being reasonable with how underpaid they are currently.
Ill post some rebuttals to common arguments in the next post.