Fighter Salaries
Yet, with all the recent successes of the sport the fact that most Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters make $10,000 (u.þ.b. 700.000 ísk)or less per fight is a little shocking.
If these fighters compete 3 times a year they'll still be around to the poverty line after taxes and fight preparation costs (i.e. trainers, managers etc.). If it weren't for sponsorships they'd likely be unable to continue their MMA careers.
Why should the UFC pay any more than they have to?
The UFC is a profit and not a charitable organization. Why should they pay anymore than the market dictates? Right now, with no other organization giving these fighters near the amount of exposure as the UFC, they can actually afford to pay these fighters less than other organizations. For example, they offered Chris Brennan five times less his fight purse offered to him by the Gracie Fighting Championship.
Brennan made the uncommon choice and turned the UFC down to which the UFC responded (according to Brennan) by calling him “an idiot”.
http://www.subfighter.com/article2172.html?osCsid=de0bd4a944bd78243e434e6a09a87619
Mér finnst ansi sárt að heyra hvað UFC borgar keppendum sínum ílla. Sérstaklega í ljósi þess hve oft keppendur meiðast alvarlega í bardögum og UFC keppnin virðist vera að mala mikið gull.
Það ætti að henda þessum sköllótta forstjóra UFC Dana White fyrir björg hið fyrsta!
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