UFC, Sports, and Money

[maaudiosubs]

Dana Whites motto BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY!

[coolasshole23]

Yeah Dana white keeps everything so private so he wont reveal of how much he is paying these fighters. Do you have any idea what they go through? the training camp, the diet, the training, the injuries, and the medical bills alone is around $10-15K! Dana white is worth $150 million! and he is doing it by ripping the fighters off. Thats why he wont go public, because the fighters will have more right and will demand more money. Dana white wants someone to message his ego, fuck you dana white!

[pinfold1000]

boxers can negotiate their deals and control their sponsorships and ?

Own their likenesses!

[jaganmaster]

...resulting in boring fights and a dead industry like boxing.

Copy & paste if u agree or want to preach this speech.

[jaganmaster]

...satisfy both parties or lose everything....So as long as u fans get wut u want and the fighters are happy then there is nothing wrong with the fighters boss being happy 2... U fans r the bigest boss and as long as u wanna c fighters get there head knocked off it's dana's job to make sure the fighters do so 4U & real fighters r most happy when ur happy...U c the cycle....Sure keep asking for the fighters to get paid more and u'll end up will a mayweather who dont give a shit about u...

[jaganmaster]

...they want to become rich celebrities instead of fighters. Fighting is their job. Why shoudn't the bosses be rich they organize everything & give the fighters what they pay for. It's the same thing with every other industry. 1) Masters get paid more for brains 2) servants get paid less for brawn 3) customers get what they pay for. When a customer is not sastified the service provided to them (bitch) When a servant is not happy working (Bitch-if it don't work-quit) & the big guys must ...

[jaganmaster]

Fans r always complaining about the fighters pay. Let fighters complain about that. The UFC is an organization and a good portion of that money is used towards expanding the organization which means giving back to the fans. The fans and the organization have a mutual relationship it's the fighters who get f**ked so let them complain. The reason most of them don't is because 1) they r gettin paid enough to make a decent living 2) they're gettin paid 2 do sumtin they love. If u pay fighters more..

[fighting415]

MMA FIGHTERS SHOULD BE PAID MORE THAN BOXERS NOWADAYS!!!

[SuperBigjeffery]

I'm not saying mma fighters get enough money but plz take this into account the fighter will have his sponsers take frank Mir for ufc 100 ecko unlimited gave him $85,000 to wear there clothes to the ring and I know some fighters get there food billsand living costs paid for by sponsers say your sponser is maximuscle thay will provide all your training supps and all your food bills another sponser may pay for there living expences so thay get slot more than what danna pays them on fight night

[mongeonkevin]

bald vagina

[cockboy12]

the 40 mil? not one ufc fighter will make 40 mil in their entire career. even the best. anderson silva has hardly made a mil in his entire ufc career giving some of the best fights and holding the title longer then anyone else. its a fucking joke dana white u greedy bitch

[kotternatham]

its simple there r aint no money in ufc period....thats y they cant compete with boxing. how can a private compan been around only for couple decades compete with a sport which is been around for centuries.

[Kino483]

@kotternatham dude stfu, the UFC made mma teh fastest growing sport in one year, which PPV buy exploded at UFC 66 with over 1 million, boxing had never exploded like that . you fucking moron, boxing is outdated

[CLOVERCITYY15]

@kotternatham boxing is washed up and ufc is the new in...do your research moron

[Jeroin]

''Everyone wants more money''.... Yeah, including you mother fucker.

[fleng]

Hey as long Dana White is Rich and twittering to people how he is spending money like nothing buying some stupid Sabretooth Tiger skull and such.

[DazarGaidin]

He demonizes money in one breadth but if you read between the lines, hes saying the average joe spends lots of money on the ufc. Then says the fighters aint getting it. That means that zuffa is taking all the money from the average joe for themselves. Id rather the fighter get more.

[TheMrpalid]

how much does an average mma fighter make yearly?

[Kino483]

@TheMrpalid the avg mma fighter makes about at least 6 figs, somewhere around 125k to 500k annually

[ASCEND2ETERNITY]

@Kino483 Nope... the average MMA fighter makes $5,000 per fight, and fights 3 - 4 times annually, that's $15,000 - $20,000.

[Kino483]

@ASCEND2ETERNITY that is the under card you stupid bitch. and dont forget about bonuses/ sponsorship to soo like 7,000 for fighting + 10,000 in sponsor + fight bonus 20,000. so around like 100k annually

[ASCEND2ETERNITY]

@Kino483 Nope... i used the "EN-TI-RE" demographic for annual MMA fighters payout. Which is precisely what i stated in the previous message. The "average fighter" fighting under a larger venue, with sponsorship, and per diems, and fight based incentives is $117,000, with top rated fighters barely breaching the 1 million mark. Still... the "average MMA fighter" earns $5,000 per fight, fighting 3 - 4 times anually, which grosses $15,000 - $20,000.

[Kino483]

@ASCEND2ETERNITY i know dude but your forgeting about the sponsorships as well. which ads in like 10grand extra and if they get a knockout or a late submision would be an extra 50 k. and dana does hand out bonuses as well

[ASCEND2ETERNITY]

@Kino483 My last response icludes all of that. Look, i don't wanna sit here and debate statiscal income figures about MMA fighters. The point really is, the organizations make a killing of the fighters who quite literally are killing themselves for minimal profit.

[Kino483]

@ASCEND2ETERNITY well thats why if you are a pro enough they will send you to the main card where oyu can make 400k max in one fight like GSP. he was fighting for only 5k per fight when he made his UFC debut now he makes 400k per fight and then some. so nearly a million dollars a year. and most of these guys have other jobs then mma like shane carwin who is an engineer so your facts are false and bullshit you idiot cunt. and MMA IS THE SAFEST SPORT

[ASCEND2ETERNITY]

@Kino483 You are an idiot, you display the upmost level of idiocy. There's probably no help for your level of stupidity, nonetheless i'll try to help. Keep your head out of the microwave, stop drinking water the wells in trinoble, stop breeding from within your immediate family, read a book, go to school and stop eating rancid meat you fucking retarded inbred. Learn to read and comprehend you illiterate waste of space. Get out of your mom's basement and get a job and an education you inbred hobo

[Kino483]

@ASCEND2ETERNITY I go to university you dumb fuck peice of shit. your the IDIOT HERE THAT CANT EVEN GET ITNO COLLEG EAND MAKE A 6 FIGURE JOB WITH AN MBA and work for IGN like me IDIOT. YOU ARE LIKE THOSE niggers THAT WANT TO BECOME A BOXER BUT YOU are a stupid nigger. so i cant wait to beat teh shit otu of you stupid ugly nigger

[ASCEND2ETERNITY]

@Kino483 Oh yeah, your last comment proves your level of intellect alright. Clearly your college educated. And i do have my own business, i'm not a boxer, i'm a certified SCARS instuctor for better than 20 years, keep dreaming and promoting your abundant inaptitude of 2nd grade knowledge. And trust me, i'm not afraid of your idle threats, you racist pedifile.

[Kino483]

@ASCEND2ETERNITY I WILL KNOCK YOU THE FUCK OUT YOU DUMB NIGGER mma STYLE

[jeremyholtom]

Come and see my take on the rich and famous, So You Want To Meet The Rich And Famous posted as a response and on my page!

[yiblon]

Sportsmen play sport for the sportsmanship.

Moneymen play sport for the money.

When money moves in the sport dies.

[kappkids]

so whats wrong with giving the fighters more money if that's what would make them happy? they are the ones training for months on end and risking getting knocked out.. they should get payed well imo

[Marckittleson]

I have one question, who made 40 Million in the UFC?

[treverpitts]

its true if you work at walmart makeing 7 bucks an hour you no you would want 10 bucks if they would give you hes right every one wants more money sports music you me we all do

[metalburb]

He complains about paying fighters, but that doesn't justify paying undercard fighters tiny sums like 2k for fighting and 2k for winning.

[vadim1981]

dana white is full of it. Why doesnt he talk about his partners and owners of the ufc, the Fertida brothers, both on the Forbes 400 list and worth a cool $1.3 billion each, and he has the nerves to complain that the fighters want more money. One day some fighter is going to have enough of this greedy pig and mess his face up so bad, he wont be able to give an interview.

[michaeldog]

haha....says the guy with the username Vadim...are you a Fedor and Vadim Finkelstein fanatic?

[vadim1981]

yes I am, how can you tell?, what gave me away?

[michaeldog]

Wasn't Fedor offered a 3 or 5 million $ contract for three fights, but refused b/c he wouldn't be allowed to fight in any other organization?

[MasterDeathLock]

Look this people are going in the ring and they can die in the cage. So 50 thousand a year is very littiel for someone hu can die fighting in the ring.

[fox2]

They choose to fight for that $50,000. Its there choice, they know what the risks are.

[MoparDRVR]

i think hes a piece of shit douche bag.. and thought of hes a shit head for paying the fighters shit.. but he makes some real good points bout sports and money now-a-days.. and hes still a twat

[themelshow]

Ok! so how about we all just fight for free! how does that sound Dana?

[ElizarTringov]

Dana white is trying to keep the money out of a professional sport? He's not making any sense to me.

[jsbdoorman]

But it is true that lot of guys are underpay...what dana doesn't say here is that no UFC fighters makes Millions of dollars for a fight..unlike boxing...for the big names!!

[treverpitts]

brock got Millions chuck use to get like 500000

[bnaji]

So it's okay for Dana White to make the money. However, money is corrupting the sport when other people want to make money.

Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed isn't good Dana!!!!

[86pacer]

Fedor leaves M-1 in a few weeks and will be a free agent once again. This is Dana's second chance to get Fedor. He better not F' this up.

[Jeroin]

Fuck you Dana white.

[bn2mar2div2]

What a great idea, Dana White and the owners of Zuffa will keep most of the profits, and pay the fighters next to nothing such as Keith the Dean of Mean got paid $13,000 for fighting Chuck the Ice Man and the Fans that earn only 20 to 30,000 got charged a ton of money to see the fight either live or pay per view,,,, and Zuffa is the only one getting rich,,, yeah sounds like a good idea

[jsbdoorman]

Don't know where u got ur source but its just not true! Just with his contract it's way more than the 13K u advance...That just cant be!

[bm2g]

i agree with some of what he said,like most athletes & celebs are vastly overpaid but i wonder how much he earns? id like to ask him why ppv,merchindise &tickets are so expensive & keep rising! i know the answer- to keep his pockets full of cash! he symperthyses with the fans then rips them off for the profit of his compant! give me a break.

[204union]

Dana White tells it like it is w/ Eisner