Comparing Boxing Salaries Vs UFC Salaries.

[Chups]

Boxers get paid more because of how long the sport has been around. Boxers deserve to get paid more anyway.

The MMA organization is greedy....Gene Tunney made millions in the 1900's. To think that PPV buys of MMA is comparable if not more than what PPV boxing buys.

[bigdlb12]

my wife has an uncle who just started fighting in the UFC, when Matt fought Georges St Peierr he fought for his first time on ufc, his name is Lenard Garcia and he was said to have made 15k for that fight even tho he loss

[bigdlb12]

in a fight I remember hearing that chop chop got 150k for a fight, I forgot who he was fighting

[spinksjinx]

Margarito should only be compared to the curtain jerkers of the UFC. Flat out Tim Sylvia made 100k aganist Couture while Couture pulled in 250k...Those are your top level guys and they are making the big paydays that HBO BAD guys make occasionally..

Personally I I think the purses in both sports suck...For one UFC is paid to little and boxing is overpaid...8 times out of 10 boxers who are getting paid buckets of money provide more sizzle than steak and hardly justify that multi-million dollar cost....At least the UFC awards a bigger chunk of change to the winner as an added incentive...It seriously rips my ****ing heart out to hear Mayweather collect 10 million dollar checks and dance the night away and we have wars with less money...More risk more reward thats business and that should stand in boxing...Boxers got greedy and are spoiled.

[Domain]

Margarito should only be compared to the curtain jerkers of the UFC. Flat out Tim Sylvia made 100k aganist Couture while Couture pulled in 250k...Those are your top level guys and they are making the big paydays that HBO BAD guys make occasionally..

Personally I I think the purses in both sports suck...For one UFC is paid to little and boxing is overpaid...8 times out of 10 boxers who are getting paid buckets of money provide more sizzle than steak and hardly justify that multi-million dollar cost....At least the UFC awards a bigger chunk of change to the winner as an added incentive...It seriously rips my ****ing heart out to hear Mayweather collect 10 million dollar checks and dance the night away and we have wars with less money...More risk more reward thats business and that should stand in boxing...Boxers got greedy and are spoiled.

wasnt jorge solis and larios paid more money to fight manny pacquiao then those top level guys in ufc got paid?

I remember someone saying larios got 500,000, g's, and solis like 800,000 grand for his fight with pacquiao.

[spinksjinx]

wasnt jorge solis and larios paid more money to fight manny pacquiao then those top level guys in ufc got paid?

I remember someone saying larios got 500,000, g's, and solis like 800,000 grand for his fight with pacquiao.

Maybe I couldnt see them getting that much since that is what Marquez was offered...None the less its a possibility and boxers make more money than UFC..It boggles my mind that people like to say boxing is dead or is dying and blah blah blah but the economics of the sport show its very much alive and well I might add...Its just insane how low UFC/MMA guys get paid..MMA fighters are kind of screwed since the UFC bought PRIDE which handed out big paydays, because now the guys wont have nowhere to go...MMA is ran like the wrestling industry and they just shot themselves in the foot. As long as UFC doesnt lose their tv deal and keep making new stars that way when the greed kicks in they will have another guy lined up they should do fine...With no tv deal (spike) they would be in the same boat if not worst than boxing.

Being on a premium network like HBO/Showtime hurts the sport just as much as being on PPV.

[realheavyhands]

gary shaw started his own independent mma oraganization it starts this summer on showtime and he is representing and paying the fighters like they do in boxing to get what they should get ,also has females on the cards.. dana white was pissed and called it a rinky dink league.. but when the fighters see how much gary shaws fighters make and how he takes care of his fighters they will leave ufc

[Domain]

gary shaw started his own independent mma oraganization it starts this summer on showtime and he is representing and paying the fighters like they do in boxing to get what they should get ,also has females on the cards.. dana white was pissed and called it a rinky dink league.. but when the fighters see how much gary shaws fighters make and how he takes care of his fighters they will leave ufc

he already aired a show in febuary it was decent.

but he is gonna take a huge blow this saturday with his k1 merger they have a ppv show this saturday for mma and they trying to sell ou the LA colisieum hahah

100 thousand seats? wow and no one has heard of this fight being advertised they are gonna lose mega millions.

[Living Legend]

Who is tired of the Boxing vs. MMA thing? I wonder if they had the same arguments regarding boxing and kick boxing? Boxing will live forever, so will all sports featured in the Olympics. The UFC is a couple of broken necks, exposed bones or someone getting choked to death away from being sent back to the underground. Although I am going to enjot it while it lasts, because like the owners are counting on... " Everyone loves a good street fight.."

[squealpiggy]

It's one thing to accuse boxers of greed, but it's the fighters who are taking the biggest risk in these events, not the shareholders. Boxers should get a greater share of the spoils, not make a pittance. Who do you think is paid more, Chuck Liddel or Dana White?

I believe that boxers lose approximately 25% of their pre-tax earnings for training, management and promotion (unless they have sold a stake in themselves previously, which is not an unusual state of affairs. Much of Don King's income is from the purses of boxers he has bought a stake in), and they are taxed on their full purse. A rule of thumb is that boxers take home about a third of their purse but their training and management fees are tax deductable as business expenses so they can claim a chunk of money at tax time. Having said that the IRS has done in a number of boxers in the past, who are often from poor backgrounds and have little feel for finances.