UFC president Dana White to attend Pacquiao vs Clottey

[TheNegation]

well yea but thats why i said several things but not all. He underpays his fighters but he is a fans type of guy which i really like, thats where a lot of boxing promoters mess up...

He definitely listens to the fans a lot more, that can't really be argued.

However the underpaid thing can be easily confused by boxing fans because they make so much more money. Like 10x as much.

But the sport is still growing and hasn't been around very long.

GSP made 6K total in his first UFC fight which was in 2004 now he probably makes 500K after sponsors.

The money will come eventually, however the guys in the UFC that people claim are underpaid, like Undercard fighters, make roughly the same amount as boxing undercard fighters.

So the only difference really is the top earners.

Surprisingly enough, not all fighters care about money, the ones that get into it solely for that reason never last.

[shadeyfizzle]

well yea but thats why i said several things but not all. He underpays his fighters but he is a fans type of guy which i really like, thats where a lot of boxing promoters mess up...

the "underpays fighters" thing is very arguable. I actually like the UFC's pay system alot.

Top names in the ufc get ass****d in the wallet compared to names in boxing.

but the ufc's gatekeepers, fringe contenders and no namers get paid a hell of a lot more than boxing's gatekeeprs, fringe contenders and no namers.

They also have bonuses for fight of the night, knockout of the night and submission of the night. That's up to $120,000 extra in your pocket for a good night's work. might seem like chump change to top names like pacquiao and mayweather but an extra $120,000 for a devastating knockout would be a life changing event for boxing unknowns like randall bailey and anthony pitalua.

[DE100]

the "underpays fighters" thing is very arguable. I actually like the UFC's pay system alot.


but the ufc's gatekeepers, fringe contenders and no namers get paid a hell of a lot more than boxing's gatekeeprs, fringe contenders and no namers.

What do you consider gatekeepers, fringe contenders and no namers? With most of these guys still getting to be on the PPV undercards alot of times all it takes is 2 or 3 so called good wins, and there right there almost getting title shots.

[RSBonos]

Thanks Dana for Fedor vs Brock...I can't wait.

Its the equivalent of cheering for Don King or Arum to control all of boxing.

[shadeyfizzle]

What do you consider gatekeepers, fringe contenders and no namers? With most of these guys still getting to be on the PPV undercards alot of times all it takes is 2 or 3 so called good wins, and there right there almost getting title shots.

It's nowhere near as automatic as you make it seem.

Fighters may have 20-30 fights in lesser and/or foreign organizations before graduating into the UFC....which in baseball would be the equivalent of getting the call up from the minors to the big leagues.

But as far as pay goes....an undercard fighter is an undercard fighter. in no other combat sport can a fighter making his debut or even a fighter with a losing record have a good night and deliver in such a big way that it steals the show make equal to, if not more than the headlining fighters.


In boxing you see journeymen upset bright up and coming prospects all the time. sometimes in spectacular fashion. and yet they will never make more money than the prospect.

[JOM'S]

we can if we get a single governing body or national boxing czar

this is what boxing should have, a single governing body, actually it started that way but differences, real & imagined, cut it up to thousand parts ...tsk tsk

[Sweet Jesus]

I don't care.

[The_Demon]

fuck mma and fuck dana white to,****** bald cunt

[PAKYO]

I don't care.

So why reply here?

[Left Banned Tua]

You guys do know he used to run a boxing gym in Boston right???

And was in Micky Wards corner when he fought Gatti?

people don't realize dana loves boxing.

he was an am boxer i think.

plus he use to run a gym for like poor kids.


most of his criticisms about boxing is stuff we say. fighters fight not to lose rather than to win , the big fights don't get made , it's corrupt and so on.

a lot of the stuff he says is stuff most boxing fans would say. of course some of the **** talk he does is to promote his own sport which you can't blame him.

dana knows as much about boxing as the next guy. he's a fan of the sport.

people just go nuts about what he says because they don't like the ufc.