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No i'm not here to say they need to make an union and bla bla bla, just curious, how can most of them cavemans get attention enough to generate some income and raise their gains ?
If the only way to get good paychecks is doing what Conor did, then we'll see that once or twice in a lifetime. Yes he made himself money, and i think he deserved it, after all he did bring in attention to UFC more than anyone, although i do think the UFC doesn't care much and would probably give up on him and do something else. We all know that business is like this, you're paid for what you bring in, not for what you can do. Seems like most fighters think "I'm very good, i should get paid better, i can knockout people at will".
Yes it is awesome and it does bring attention, but that's just to a certain point, Anderson Silva for example did not bring attention by trash talking or self promotion, still crossed the MMA bubble a little but with all the Steven Segal bs and the hype UFC did for him. But that can't last forever, and Anderson himself said he felt underpaid (and he said that during the glory days).
What does the UFC want from their fighters ? these guys can't kill themselves forever for such a small paycheck and that only makes it easy for zuffa to cover the "underpayment" talk. I don't want to see MMA turn into pro wrestling with a bunch of gimmicks and what not, but not everyone is Conor and Ronda and it seems you need that to make some good money as an MMA fighter.
Tl;DR : Does everyone need to promote themselves and cross the mma circle to get mainstream attention or can fighters get paid more without that ? because we all know not everyone would be accepted trying to follow that model.
If the only way to get good paychecks is doing what Conor did, then we'll see that once or twice in a lifetime. Yes he made himself money, and i think he deserved it, after all he did bring in attention to UFC more than anyone, although i do think the UFC doesn't care much and would probably give up on him and do something else. We all know that business is like this, you're paid for what you bring in, not for what you can do. Seems like most fighters think "I'm very good, i should get paid better, i can knockout people at will".
Yes it is awesome and it does bring attention, but that's just to a certain point, Anderson Silva for example did not bring attention by trash talking or self promotion, still crossed the MMA bubble a little but with all the Steven Segal bs and the hype UFC did for him. But that can't last forever, and Anderson himself said he felt underpaid (and he said that during the glory days).
What does the UFC want from their fighters ? these guys can't kill themselves forever for such a small paycheck and that only makes it easy for zuffa to cover the "underpayment" talk. I don't want to see MMA turn into pro wrestling with a bunch of gimmicks and what not, but not everyone is Conor and Ronda and it seems you need that to make some good money as an MMA fighter.
Tl;DR : Does everyone need to promote themselves and cross the mma circle to get mainstream attention or can fighters get paid more without that ? because we all know not everyone would be accepted trying to follow that model.
