About Boxing vs. MMA

[squealpiggy]

The guys who make the 3k-7k are usually fighting the 'dark matches'. While boxing does pay their top-level guys alot more than top-level mma does, alot of the guys making the 3k-7k have less than 10 fights. The only boxers making that kind of money with that few fights are guys with big names or very good amateur careers.

From my experience, mma guys make more than boxers in the early parts of their careers, but once they get to the prospect stage and beyond, the boxers make alot more.

This would hold water if the UFC was in a vacuum, but it isn't. Most guys in the UFC have already established themselves in other sports, like K1 kickboxing or wrestling and have been professional in those disciplines for a considerable period of time. Guys that have started in MMA have started on the bottom rung of the ladder in local "cage match" fights like King of the Cage or Cage Rage, to name just two of the better known ones. These guys have already paid their club-fighter dues. Noone gets $5000 on their pro debut.

[1bad65]

I never said that they make $5000 in their pro debut, but they may make $5000 in their UFC debut.

There is something else I want to touch on concerning this topic. Anyone who fights has to pay income taxes, that's a given. But boxers tend to have more people 'dipping' into their purses. Higher level boxers usually on top of taxes, have to pay a trainer, a promoter, and a manager. That really can deplete a purse FAST. If you fight in an org(UFC, FFC, KOTC, etc), you are not paying a promoter or manager, as they match you and promote their own cards. You may have to pay your trainer, depends on your situation.
Look at it this way, if you make a $100,000 purse boxing, but lose 90% to taxes and trainers, managers, promoters; you KEEP less money than an mma guy making $20,000 and only having to pay taxes.

Think about this also, I can think of two World Champion level boxers who filed bankruptcy while still fighting, Mike Tyson and Hasim Rahman. And ex-World Champ Leon Spinks works at McDonalds and the YMCA. I can't think of any top-level mma guy filing bankruptcy.