Comments Thread For: Dana White on Boxing: All Those F------- Guys Are Overpaid!

[BustedKnuckles]

UFC is like Amazon who recruit third party sellers onto their platform which does very well, but the third party sellers have no power of their own and are absolutely easily replaced...and when the local sellers are not offering cheap enough prices, just bring in the chinese 9in this case, the dagestanis).

Boxing is more like an old school market where the sellers have to attract business by their own hussle. The promoter is just the newspaper they advertise through and the sanctioning bodies are the council. obviously mauricio sulaiman is just a peice of **** corrupt councillor.

I was thinking Boxers are more like officers and MMA guys are the grunts. Officers make way more $ for a reason.

MMA takes skill too. But, I think that, despite all of the flaws in the modern business of boxing, it's still the sweet science, whereas MMA is basically bloodsport, and those guys are far more replaceable.

[GhostofDempsey]

Who does he think deserves all the money then? Promoters, managers, networks? Boxers have to establish their worth like any other athlete. The market determines their value.

[billeau2]

Who does he think deserves all the money then? Promoters, managers, networks? Boxers have to establish their worth like any other athlete. The market determines their value.

LOL. Its Marxism 101 Ghost. The capitalist as Middle man. It is part of out consciousness and how we are manipulated. For example, INsurance could be handled by a pool. Instead we accept that some guy makes a buck by putting up the money we may need. We are not even given a choice!

Im not arguing against our system but sometimes we can see the foibles. Promoters skew and manipulate the market for their gain... Not for the gain of fighters or fans. They have clawed their way into a niche where they are primary... Its like all these damn delivery apps. Used to be when you ordered Chinese food, or Pizza they delivered and you gave the guy a tip, everyone was happy... Now these sycophants have people paying a premium for something that was free. Why? so some middle man can rob us and make restaurants even less affordable.

[GhostofDempsey]

LOL. Its Marxism 101 Ghost. The capitalist as Middle man. It is part of out consciousness and how we are manipulated. For example, INsurance could be handled by a pool. Instead we accept that some guy makes a buck by putting up the money we may need. We are not even given a choice!

Im not arguing against our system but sometimes we can see the foibles. Promoters skew and manipulate the market for their gain... Not for the gain of fighters or fans. They have clawed their way into a niche where they are primary... Its like all these damn delivery apps. Used to be when you ordered Chinese food, or Pizza they delivered and you gave the guy a tip, everyone was happy... Now these sycophants have people paying a premium for something that was free. Why? so some middle man can rob us and make restaurants even less affordable.

Yeah, I mean, call me crazy, but I think the guy who is risking his life taking punches to head should get the lion’s share of the money. Apparently White thinks he is taking more of a risk from his desk.

[billeau2]

Hard truth is boxers are overpaid and UFC fighters are underpaid.

How can anyone determine such a thing? I was shopping in the Mission and saw McGregor's for sale... Half off the NORMAL price lol. If you ever wanted to know the actual worth of a fighter, by sport, one would have to find a way to normalize the price a promoter is worth... that will NEVER HAPPEN my friend. Want to know why? Dana Coke White, Arum, Eddie and the rest of the gang that could not shoot straight would never let that data out because people would be shocked. How much is Dana White worth to the process of two athletes having a match? Talk about being overpaid!

[manfrommars]

As someone already noted, if the boxers were overpaid, the promoters would shut down.

That's an interesting point.

[real raw]

They aren't overpaid because they generate enough money to pay them that amount.

It's pretty simple.

The red faced coke head is just deflecting because he takes 80% of the revenue his fighters generate and shovels it up his hooter.

^^^^^Nothing else needs to be said

[BodyBagz]

Atleast they are trying to make a name for themselves instead of posting on a boxing forum...

Chances are I have more in my bank account !

[james240]

Dana White would rather gamble away millions per night than give his fighters who keep his company alive a pay rise why do you think MMA fighters keep calling out the best boxers?

[Oldskoolg]

Yet the first four months of this year saw a lot of great matchups. You people will complain about boxing regardless of what happens.
If people are willing to pay for PPVs and tickets that bring in a lot of revenue, the boxers get the majority of it. How else should it work? Would you rather the promoters in boxing get the bulk of the money like Dana does? Are you more a fan of the fighters or the promoters?
Maybe you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth or were given ownership of a company and didn't have to work with it, then I would understand your stance of wanting the fighters to make less money. If the fighters make less money, the promoters and commission staff involved make more money. That sounds like a Reagen wet dream where the corporations and owners of the world hold their clients in financial bondage. The world is already being controlled by large corporations. As corrupt as boxing is, at least the fighters are getting well compensated for putting their lives on the line instead of in the UFC where "Plantation White Man" pays his ****** whatever he deems suitable.

I’d rather promoters see themselves out the door and one or two networks be the outlets, preferably one. I could ultimately care less what another man makes in terms of money only to the point where their desire for money overcomes the desire for good fights to be made. There are some decent fights this year but anyone who thinks boxing is where it was in the 90s is living in fantasy land. Know what the difference is? HBO/Showtime we’re the homes of big time boxing while ESPN and usa network were the farm teams to coin a baseball phrase