Randy Couture: MAYWEATHER makes more $$ than all UFC fighters...COMBINED!!

[javelin_fangs]

[SIZE="4"]I think Couture is basically right that the fighters in UFC aren't paid enough, but I also worry that fighters leaving UFC for greener pastures would be good for their short-term financial gain but bad for the long-term health of the sport.

Here is where I disagree with many fans of UFC. It's common amongst UFC fans to say that boxing is hurt by the fact that there are so many different promoters and very little uniformity. Boxers supposedly want too much money and the sport suffers. Whereas UFC fighters are satisfied with their contracts and the entire sport reaps the benefits.

MMA is bigger than the UFC and when the UFC finally realizes that they're not the only game in town that's making money anymore it'll be too late. If one or two guys were leaving UFC that'd be one thing, but plenty of talented guys are fighting elsewhere and for more money than they could make in the UFC.

Everything Dana White blasts boxing for in terms of fighters getting screwed over and over controlling promoters always wanting their way; he is guilty of that stuff to at least the same extent. Randy Couture gets into the ring and fights. Mark Cuban will pay him millions. Dana White could pay him millions, but won't supposedly for "the good of the sport." That's BS. Couture-Emilienko is for the "good of the sport." But they should both get paid their fair share. It's called a fair share because it's fair. Anything else is unfair and wrong.

Boxers figured that out a long time ago. It seems like the top MMA stars are figuring that out too.

[MEDIUMPOPPAPUMP]

I do sometimes wish that there was one unified body in boxing that ran everything. All the weights, belts, matches so it can all be uniform and have so much less bitching. A co-worker of mine always complains that he no longer following boxing because of the WBC, WBA, WBO, KFC, CIA, WWE. It's just all too much.

[mrpain81]

It costs money to run the UFC... its not Dana White's fault really. They do pay the fighters a salary which is good.

Source?

It cost money to run Top Rank Promotions and Golden Boy also, you can look up the event pay and its always under 1mil fora ll the fighters on the card. The guys are getting ****ed and they know it, there is a reason that Couture,Tito,Andre Arlovski,Tim Sylvia have left or are leaving.

[mrpain81]

Here is where I disagree with many fans of UFC. It's common amongst UFC fans to say that boxing is hurt by the fact that there are so many different promoters and very little uniformity. Boxers supposedly want too much money and the sport suffers. Whereas UFC fighters are satisfied with their contracts and the entire sport reaps the benefits.

MMA is bigger than the UFC and when the UFC finally realizes that they're not the only game in town that's making money anymore it'll be too late. If one or two guys were leaving UFC that'd be one thing, but plenty of talented guys are fighting elsewhere and for more money than they could make in the UFC.

Everything Dana White blasts boxing for in terms of fighters getting screwed over and over controlling promoters always wanting their way; he is guilty of that stuff to at least the same extent. Randy Couture gets into the ring and fights. Mark Cuban will pay him millions. Dana White could pay him millions, but won't supposedly for "the good of the sport." That's BS. Couture-Emilienko is for the "good of the sport." But they should both get paid their fair share. It's called a fair share because it's fair. Anything else is unfair and wrong.

Boxers figured that out a long time ago. It seems like the top MMA stars are figuring that out too.

Good post

Another this is MMA has plenty of orgs

King of Cage,Cage Rage,Pro Elite,IFL,Dream,UFC and they mostly have champions.

People that say "MMA is easier to follow" are full of ****!! The UFC champ isn't the undisputed champ for the fact there are plenty of talented guys outside the UFC.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

Couture is right.

Dana White is worst then Don King and Gary Shaw when it comes to paying the fighters.

Don King....yeah, I can go with that. Dana's higher then Gary Shaw though. He at least puts decent fighters in decent fights. Shaw pushes Gina Corano as the top female fighter because she's hot and has boobs. Shaw pushes Kimbo not because he's training with Bas, but because he was a former bareknuckle boxer. ****, Jorge Masvidal gets more respect from the casuals then him.

And don't get me ****ing started on how Shaw ****ed over Gary Turner and almost ****ed over Antonio Silva.

[MEDIUMPOPPAPUMP]

World Extreme Cage Fighting on the VS Channel is my ****!