UFC, Sports, and Money

Excerpt of UFC Founder Dana White's interview on CNBC's "Conversations with Michael Eisner". Encore 12/25 @ 8a ET CNBC. http://eisner.cnbc.com

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Sports

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• UFC
• Ultimate
• Fighting
• Mixed
• Martial
• Arts
• Dana
• White
• CNBC
• NBC
• Michael
• Eisner

[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

[Jeroin]

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

[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!

[Kino483]

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

[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 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 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 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 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 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 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.