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There’s a lot to say about the UFC Fighter pay thanks to a piece of ESPN (see above) on the subject, the argument that the UFC fighters they too underpays compared with revenue that brought the company.
We’ve been over this so many times so I won’t bore you with the details of it all, but the facts are the facts: top Boxer makes a lot more top UFC fighters. This has been a part of the problem every time someone said that boxing needs UFC-like structure. how paid fighters significantly different that it can never, ever works. You won’t suddenly Floyd Mayweather fight for $ 2 million or whatever. Timothy Bradley made more than $ 1 million for nothing against Joel Casamayor on Pacquiao vs Marquez UFC undercard. I mean, once you are on some level, it’s apples and bowling balls.
The UFC has released something video responses from Lorenzo Fertitta, which was recorded during the ESPN interview, and the results are quite interesting as they want them to be, I’m afraid.
Fertitta argues that ESPN, a large company, pay very little for their warriors Friday Night Fights program: