Comments Thread For: Nick Diaz Backing Away From Jeff Lacy Showdown

[Forza]

Scared money don't make no money!

[pistol whip]

The reason boxing "lags behind" is that there is not economical incentive for prime boxers to switch sport, like there is for wrestlers, bjj-players and kickboxers.

If none of the talented boxer make the leap, and we only see old hasbeens ofcourse its gonna "lag behind".

Only a handful of boxers make more money than Mixed Martial Artists. Top fighters in the UFC make the same money that a Andre Berto or Victor ortiz would make.

[Forza]

Boxers make much more money than welfare check "paydays" in MMGAY

berto making 1m a fight, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


skills pay the bills, and MMA doesn't have any skill thats why they get paid baby money compared to real sports

[Barry Halls]

Only a handful of boxers make more money than Mixed Martial Artists. Top fighters in the UFC make the same money that a Andre Berto or Victor ortiz would make.

Equivalent status/rating in boxing equals more money than the same in mma.

A top50 boxer can't exactly expect to go in and make GSP-kind of money.

Therefore, as i said, a boxer have an alternative, something wrestlers, bjj etc don't have. They can make more money at the top in their sport than in mma.

[Barry Halls]

Boxers make much more money than welfare check "paydays" in MMGAY

berto making 1m a fight, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


skills pay the bills, and MMA doesn't have any skill thats why they get paid baby money compared to real sports

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welfare, loooool.

Go look at an ufc card and compare the salaries between boxing and mma.
The undercard fighters don't make much, but they actually make even less in boxing.
Excluding manny and floyd, the top earners in mma make as much as the top earners in boxing.

Educate yourself on the subject. You sound really dumb.

[Forza]

The best BJJ guys don't go to MMGAY. They do their own little tournaments in brazil, I believe it's called mundials.

The best wrestlers don't go to MMGAY, they go to the Olmpyics. Usually get destroyed by russians or iranians.

[Barry Halls]

The best BJJ guys don't go to MMGAY. They do their own little tournaments in brazil, I believe it's called mundials.

Jacare - mma
Demian Maia - mma
Roger Gracie - mma
Robert Drysdale - mma
Fabricio Werdum - mma
Braulio Estima - mma
Marcelo Garcia - mma (well, he tried)
Andre Galvao - mma

the list goes on and on and on. You are incorrect, a lot of the best bjj-players move on to mma.

Regarding wrestling, you are correct. MMA mostly picks up the top-level talent just under the olympic level.
That will probably change as the sport gets more mainstream.

[BOLLOCKS]

Aye, go back to yer pantie wearing, dry humping competition, pussy.

[ELPERRO]

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welfare, loooool.

Go look at an ufc card and compare the salaries between boxing and mma.
The undercard fighters don't make much, but they actually make even less in boxing.
Excluding manny and floyd, the top earners in mma make as much as the top earners in boxing.

Educate yourself on the subject. You sound really dumb.

Champ Anderson Silva: $200,000 (includes no win bonus)
def. Vitor Belfort: $275,000

Forrest Griffin: $275,000 ($150,000 win bonus)
def. Rich Franklin: $75,000

Jon Jones: $140,000 ($70,000 win bonus)
def. Ryan Bader: $20,000

Jake Ellenberger: $32,000 ($16,000 win bonus)
def. Carlos Eduardo Rocha: $8,000

Miguel Torres: $56,000 ($28,000 win bonus)
def. Antonio Banuelos: $9,000

Donald Cerrone: $36,000 ($18,000 win bonus)
def. Paul Kelly: $19,000

Chad Mendes: $19,000 ($9,500 win bonus)
def. Michihiro Omigawa: $8,000

Demetrious Johnson: $10,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
def. Norifumi Yamamoto: $15,000

Paul Taylor: $36,000 ($18,000 win bonus)
def. Gabe Ruediger: $8,000

Kyle Kingsbury: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
def. Ricardo Romero: $10,000

Mike Pierce: $28,000 ($14,000 win bonus)
def. Kenny Robertson: $6,000

Boxing

Purses for Saturday's undercard: Pavlik $270K, Lopez $40K, Vazquez $165K, Arce $125K, Alvarado $50K, Narh $22,500.

Mosley's official purse on the Nevada contract is $3.950 million, although he is guaranteed $5 million

Pacquiao's official purse is $6 million on the Nevada contract but he is guaranteed $20 million from by Top Rank because of PPV.

[fitefanSHO]

Smart move Nick.