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well if your definition of a superfight is champions from different weightclasses facing each other than yeah there hasn't been much of that especially the last couple of years but mostly because those fights don't matter as much to the UFC as they do to individual boxers. UFC doesn't care to bank on 1 event or putting all their eggs in one basket. They look at they success based on an entire year as a whole. 1 big event is just a marginal gain in the grand scope of a year especially with 45 events.
Superfights will eventually happen like Jones-Velasquez and Aldo-Pettis but that's completely up to the fighters. If the UFC wants they can force those fighters into those fights by throwing more money at them but clearly they don't think those fights are important enough for them to do that.
And fighters especially at the top end are paid a boat load of money. Sure if you compare their salaries to Mayweather and Pacquiao's it doesn't really come close to what the top fighters are making but past those 2 most champion boxers don't make that much either. People look at the gross revenue that boxers make but they don't subtract the cost of promotion, arena fees, manager fees, licensing fees, healthcare costs, traveling/hotel costs. All that stuff in the UFC is paid for by UFC. Also the pay in a UFC card is more well spread out than in a boxing card.
UFC fighters are paid more than fair contrary to popular belief.
Superfights will eventually happen like Jones-Velasquez and Aldo-Pettis but that's completely up to the fighters. If the UFC wants they can force those fighters into those fights by throwing more money at them but clearly they don't think those fights are important enough for them to do that.
And fighters especially at the top end are paid a boat load of money. Sure if you compare their salaries to Mayweather and Pacquiao's it doesn't really come close to what the top fighters are making but past those 2 most champion boxers don't make that much either. People look at the gross revenue that boxers make but they don't subtract the cost of promotion, arena fees, manager fees, licensing fees, healthcare costs, traveling/hotel costs. All that stuff in the UFC is paid for by UFC. Also the pay in a UFC card is more well spread out than in a boxing card.
UFC fighters are paid more than fair contrary to popular belief.
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