Fighters getting paid too much ruined boxing Dana White is doing the right thing.

[Eff Pandas]

Actually, boxing started going downhill when champions could start cherry picking their own challengers, and there are four champions per weight class. Boxers made insane amounts of money 100 years ago, it didn’t water down the sport.

Good point. Everyone else wanting a piece of that money was more of the problem via these invented bs ass belts.

[GhostofDempsey]

Dempsey-Tunney had like 120k people there, didn't it?

It's actually kind of cool people didn't have that many entertainment options back then. All glued to the radio or trying to get in with another 100k people to look at a glimpse of a fight really far away.

50 MILLION PEOPLE SAW THAT FIGHT.... crazy. US POP WAS 119 MILLION... double crazy...

Dempsey earned a couple of million dollar paydays which is like $30M+ in today’s money. Many of the old time fighters like Louis, Pep, Robinson, LaMotta got paid very well, but most of them pissed it away.

[Guest]

They are having a court case right now & apparently those 20% to the fighters, 80% to the UFC rumors are true.



The UFC gots like a thousand employees & sh^t so them mostly. Its a worldwide operation that put on shows all over. They cover all the medical expenses before & after fights. They do all the production themselves. And a bunch of other sh^t I'm probably not recalling. Its a different model then boxing or most other sports from my knowledge of most other sports.

Thanks for dropping the knowledge. Obviously the fighters are the most important commodity and they are the ones suing.

[Eff Pandas]

Thanks for dropping the knowledge. Obviously the fighters are the most important commodity and they are the ones suing.

Absolutely & agree. I give the UFC, & other leagues, soooome leeway cuz the other MMA leagues that allegedly paid fighters what they were worth went outta business which is a fact too many outside non-MMA people ignore, but idk about 20% being the max fighters should be paid either. I think there is a middle ground where the UFC is making money & the fighters don't need a FT job beyond fighting.

[Floyd is TBE]

Most of his fighters are irrelevant, of course he can get away with paying them peanuts. Right now the third most popular MMA fighter in the world is who?

[jimisawesome]

The first boxer paid a million dollars for a fight was in 1927. The first baseball player did not get a million for a season until 1979. The first NFL player was in the 80s. Point being fighters have been receiving mega paydays much longer than any other sport and they still receive mega paydays. Hell you got guys that can draw flys that are getting 6 fight 9 figure deals (allegedly).

[Larry the boss]

so the promoters net worth should be more then the fighters?

[strykr619]

if MMA had the muhammad ali act, UFC would have never became a thing.

You act like the Ali act isn't flawed, its has a lot of glaring wholes.

[Guest]

so the promoters net worth should be more then the fighters?

Of course not the best fighters, hell no. The promoter takes the initial risk and finances fighters who could suck, for example sinking a lot of money into Tyrell Biggs who turned into a lemon versus say Mike Tyson who made a fortune for everyone. So they should get some reward, hard to say how much really. Certainly not what King stole from Tyson.

Seems like what Eff Pandas is saying is that White is getting his bag from everyone whether they are good or not.

[YoungManRumble]

Describes both UFC payment and boxing's current level of competition.