If UFC is taking over boxing, why do they paid so little compared to boxers?

[Scipio2009]

Football has taken over baseball as Americas past time but baseball players are making $30 million a year with guaranteed $250 million dollar contracts. Football players are making like $15-$18 million tops.

Football has a salary cap; baseball does not have a salary cap. moving on

[CANELOLUJAH]

why they get paid so little is because why not, UFC is a promotional company/outfit within the MMA sportworld and with that being said they are the best paying promotional company. So whats the alternative for these MMA fighters?

[Cut Man]

why they get paid so little is because why not, UFC is a promotional company/outfit within the MMA sportworld and with that being said they are the best paying promotional company. So whats the alternative for these MMA fighters?

There is allot more money involved in boxing, There always has been.

[Biolink]

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UFC is much harder to appreciate technically...

In boxing you only have 4 standard punches to understand.

No enjoyment in watching two men roll around on the floor when you have no idea wtf they are doing.

"He's got half guard and is looking for the ****saurus reptilian choke hold!"

Once they start rolling around on the ground probably only 10% of the people watching understand the positioning and what's available to the fighter. It's a spastic sport. I respect anyone that can do it though.

[Redd Foxx]

The only place in the whole entire world that UFC is more popular than Boxing is the hillbilly southern US states

That's ignorant and incorrect. The UFC just had it's worst year since 2007 and is losing ground throughout the US.

[Monaco Slim]

That's ignorant and incorrect. The UFC just had it's worst year since 2007 and is losing ground throughout the US.

How is it incorrect? You just proved my point, idiot.

[HanzGruber]

Football has taken over baseball as Americas past time but baseball players are making $30 million a year with guaranteed $250 million dollar contracts. Football players are making like $15-$18 million tops.

That's cause mlb has no salary cap plus career ending injuries aren't as often

[Luilun]

Check out this link that shows the top earners of 2014 in the UFC. Link: http://mma-manifesto.com/ufc-fighter...0-earners.html

Santa Cruz gets paid more fighting bums. Why is their salary so low compared to boxers? If their PPVs are doing so well, shouldn't their salary should be higher? Thoughts?

There not what they took over were all the little boys who grew up watching WWE . Now that they're grown adults and figured wrestling is fake they move on to MMA

[Dindu_Nuffin]

They really don't. There's a handful of boxers who make more money than the top UFC guys. Floyd, Manny, Wladimir, Canelo, Cotto, and Chavez all either make more, or have much greater earning potential than guy slke Jon Jones, and other top UFC guys.

UFC is also much more fickle - positions and rankings change, top guys lose more, etc.

But the mid-level, and journeyman UFC guys make more than their equivalents in boxing.

Most are making double to four times as much as what their listed salary is from sponsors, and they get a piece of the PPV sales as well.

[Gojira]

Because UFC is a company and Boxing is a sport, you dumb ****