Why is the UFC so stingy with performance bonuses?

[volcom5]

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We won't know how much he still owns after the TKO/Endeavor merger, which is supposed to close in 2025. We don't know how big of a stake he has in Endeavor either.

Even if his current stake in the UFC is 0%, he has owned a huge chunk of the company for decades.

Obviously he owned part of the company as Frank, Enzo & Dana together had a vision of where the UFC could be to where it is today. The UFC is a giant a working machine, with thousands of employees and hundreds of “share holders” and investors. You putting everything on Dana like he has full control of this ship and using the great logic of what he does with his personal earnings and comparing it to a decision in payouts for bonuses towards fighters, in reality he probably has no say and is just headpeace.

 

[Arqueto]

 

[nostradumbass]

They give out 4 performance bonuses, and nobody knows what other discretionary bonuses they give, but Kape and Alvarez both get win bonuses and got an extra 75k and 85k for winning, and Alvarez just got an additional $50k bonus on top of that for his last fight a couple months ago and ended up with over $200k as an unranked guy fighting another unranked guy on the undercard of a free event.

 

[Clark Rogers]

Another thread comparing the company's pay to Dana's personal spending because they're exactly the same...

 

[Busgosu]

They give out 4 performance bonuses, and nobody knows what other discretionary bonuses they give, but Kape and Alvarez both get win bonuses and got an extra 75k and 85k for winning, and Alvarez just got an additional $50k bonus on top of that for his last fight a couple months ago.

lmao

 

[dubhlinn]

inflation

 

[skylolow]

Any business owner or person in charge will tell you that you have to have set standards with bonuses.

Even with my company if we have a stellar year I keep my bonuses in check with employees because the first time you go beyond it, all to often it becomes expected as the new amount moving forward. They don't get as much the next year and it causes rumblings among employees.

Lot more to it then just being able to afford it.


P.S.: I would be nice if on PPV shows they up'd to 100K. Seem weird it is the same regardless.

 

[TITS]

What did else Dana want from Kape, Alvarez, and Woodson? These were all highlight reel finishes.

Dana literally throws away 50k per hand of blackjack and he couldn't be fucked to give these guys a bonus?

I seriously thought those guys were all going to get bonuses. Maybe Kape's "bonus" will the title fight he keeps begging for. Maybe because Woodson asked for the bonus instead of calling out a name in the cage interview, Dana decided to stiff him because he's a prick about that kind of stuff. No idea why he would have stiffed Alvarez.

Maybe he figures the older guys like MJ and Jacoby aren't going to have anymore bonus-winning performances like that, so he wanted to give them one last check.

 

[TrueBias]

Didnt it used to be $75k many years ago?

 

[VinceArch]

Didnt it used to be $75k many years ago?

Sometimes it would be as high as 100k and as low as 30k. It never had a set number on how much the bonus awards would actually be until a few years ago.

 

[Fight Professor]

...You don't know how shares work? Dana White is rich because he owns a part of the company. When the company pays fighters, he is personally losing money because he owns part of the company.

I hope you are under the age of 18 because it's truly fucking embarrassing to be a grown-ass adult and not understand this.

Fixed costs are not directly related to company losses.

 

[CC27]

Its just weird when they do it and when they dont. Sometimes its like ok we'll give everyone on card who got a finish a bonus and then others its like only reg 4. You set a gate record in north america, you had bunch of fighters give big finishes, reward them.

Like I get it when its an apex event ok but for the live shows should be rewarded with more bonuses sometimes. I'm guessing if you look at when its done its probably PPV that it happens on more cause the gates are bigger. But yeah last night should have probably had a FOTN and then 4 POTN bonuses.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

They should have a flat finish bonus then exceptional performance bonuses on top

 

[Tyler Durden]

Slow down chief

I love these threads
Here come all min wage Walmart workers complaining that business owners make too much money.
Let me guess, the UFC should follow the financial business model of the Saudis, Affliction, Strikeforce, EliteXC, PFL…?

 

[Fedorgasm]

You can only have one fight of the night and performance of the night.

But he does give other locker room bonuses to guys that did well and I'm sure they got some money

 

[achoo42]

Fixed costs are not directly related to company losses.

If you own 9% of the company, every 50k bonus is roughly $4500 out of your own earnings. That's all I'm saying.

 

[ILove4MinutesHyuna]

Its like how people get paid just enough where they live pay cheque to pay cheque. It keeps people in line and makes them be happy to get work.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

 

[BEATDOWNS]

no way Billy Q deserved a bonus should have just done 4 performance of the night bonuses. imho

 

[achoo42]

You can only have one fight of the night and performance of the night.

Why do you say this when it is obviously and verifiably false?

Last night, Jacoby and Johnson both got performance of the night. There are cards where literally every finish gets performance of the night.




And there have even been times where more than one fight has received fight of the night.