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In response to
"The UFC really needs to pay its fighters more. 6 of the 10 fighter on the ppv card made 17k or less"
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ceregon
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You're a bit off on that, especially one part of the IM.
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The $12k guy is Eddie Yagin, right? He actually made $77k, since he was part of Fight of the Night. Hominik, his opponent and also one of the $17k guys, actually made $82k.
Rothwell cleaned up, he made almost $170k.
I disagree that there was a co-main event. That card was Jones/Evans. MacDonald might be a draw, but Mills only had one previous UFC fight. And it was only the 5th for MacDonald. That could be a really good lead-in to the main event, but not a co-main event. And Mills could have made more if he had won.
Like Michael McDonald did. He might deserve a raise. He's only lost one pro fight, before he joined UFC, and he already had a knockout of the night and a fight of the night.
The last guy made $10k to fill in as an injury replacement and open a PPV. He wasn't signed to UFC before that fight, so that actually seems like a pretty decent payday for him.
5 of the undercard guys made over $20k, one of them over $50k and another almost $90k.
Only 3 guys made less that $10k. Two of them were in their second UFC fight, and could have made more had they won. The third actually made $12k, but was fined 20% for coming in heavy. That includes guys in fights that were shown on Facebook. They paid 4 guys over $50k to fight on Facebook.
I believe the UFC also offers health insurance, which is kind of insane for a fight promotion. Plus bonuses for twitter posts (though really bad stuff on twitter can get you in a lot of trouble).
Sure, the PPV probably brought in a lot more than was paid to the fighters, but that's how a business is run. And with it being a sport, of course the newer guys get paid less. The difference being that one of those new guys got the exposure of being in the lead-in to the main event.
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