Boxing fans need to Root for Conor McGregor! Here is why...

[Monaco Slim]

When i googled it that's what came up with multiple sites claiming it.

Yeah well you might want to do more research. The official purses were 3 million for McGregor, 1 million for Diaz.

Conor's PPV % figures are not revealed and the UFC are notorious for giving a ridiculous 2.5% of the PPV buys to fighters, but only for each buy over 600,000

[Scipio2009]

McGregor made $15 mil for Diaz 2. I think the UFC has it right, by not overpaying their fighters they can put quality fights on the undercards, instead of all the money going to the main event and ending up with shit on the undercard like boxing.

You hear the rumors (nearly $8m at the gate, 1.5m PPVs sold, etc) and it ends up looking like the UFC cleared nearly $50m once everything was counted/accounted for.

Even if your numbers are right, $15m to McGregor, $3m to Diaz, $1m to finance the rest of the fight card, the costs related to staging/marketing the fight, etc, The Fertita's/Dana White likely still ended up putting at least $20m on their books from the fight.

UFC 202 had 12 fights on the bill (5 fight on the main PPV card); how many of those fights actually meant anything to the folks fighting, beyond the "UFC wants to see this fight, so let's fight" purgatory?

Weigh that, then, against Floyd's cards; even on his way out, Floyd picked up most of the money and 8 out the 10 fights under him meant something to the fighters involved. To drive the point even further, look at the cards that Floyd put under his fights once he was in control of his own fate (first fight on his own was the Baldomir fight).

Promoters who have historically not valued undercards or simply didn't have the fighters to build undercards (Top Rank, Main Events, etc) will handle their business like they handle their business, but don't act as if that's the case for everyone.

Richard Schaefer was aggressive as all hell with stacking his fight cards when he was running Golden Boy, as is Eddie Hearn in the UK, and Lou DiBella for his big shows, among others.

and none of those guys have to stiff the fighters to do so.

[Robbie Barrett]

Yeah well you might want to do more research. The official purses were 3 million for McGregor, 1 million for Diaz.

Conor's PPV % figures are not revealed and the UFC are notorious for giving a ridiculous 2.5% of the PPV buys to fighters, but only for each buy over 600,000

McGregor’s tier based ppv share contract enable him to earn $3 to $5 for each ppv sold if final numbers reach 500,000 ppv buys. If UFC 202 does 1 million PPV buys, McGregor will earn around $5 million from PPV share.

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/conor-mcgregor-vs-nate-diaz-purse/

The PPV did 1.65 million.

[Monaco Slim]

McGregor’s tier based ppv share contract enable him to earn $3 to $5 for each ppv sold if final numbers reach 500,000 ppv buys. If UFC 202 does 1 million PPV buys, McGregor will earn around $5 million from PPV share.

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/conor-mcgregor-vs-nate-diaz-purse/

The PPV did 1.65 million.

The PPV did not do 1.65 million. The UFC is a private company which means it does not release UFC PPV figures. All of these "released" UFC ppv numbers are actually speculation from WWE/Pro Wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer and he recently took back the 1.65 million number for McGregor Diaz and replaced it with a much lower number, but we all know its even lower than that.

Here is the source for all his revised numbers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattconn.../#6b1a2238109f