Why on earth would anyone ever wanna be a UFC fighter?

[Kingofkings1992]

Look what this type of "work" results in. On top of that, the fighters are severely underpaid. In the NFL, players make roughly 50% of the company's annual revenue. In NBA and Major League Baseball, athletes earn similar amounts. In the UFC, fighters make roughly 15-20% of the company's annual revenue. That's a significant difference. Even the WWE, which is a joke of an industry and for children's entertainment pays more than the UFC does. I like the sport, don't get me wrong, but I just can't understand why anyone would get involved with this. Potentially sustain brain damage AND get treated like absolute dog shit by the company that cuts your checks? Wow. Seems like a pretty shitty deal to me. If I was a professional athlete, I'd definitely have my sights set on a different sport, like the NFL or even boxing. Less wear on you, and some better pay too

[Chazmatazz269]

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You think boxing results in less destruction of the body and brain? It absolutely does not.
The numbers are a little skewed in the way that you posted them. The lowest tier fighters in the UFC tend to make more than the lowest tier boxers in any given organization. The greatest pay disparity is between the champions and superstars. Boxing’s top athletes make way more per fight, but not every boxer gets there. There are dozens of UFC fighters with careers lasting well over a decade who never really became stars, let alone champions and i guarantee you that they fared better than similar “journeyman” boxers. The rates of CTE and other brain damage is way higher on long term boxers too. One of the advantages of MMA is a variety of ways to finish a fight that don’t require you to be punched or kicked in the head hundreds of times in a given fight. The ONLY way to win in boxing is to punch and be punched, and most strikes go to the head. Body blow TKOs are even rarer in boxing than in MMA.
Football has a ton of CTE too. They have known the risks for at least forty years and the NFL 100% helped bury the research so that they wouldn’t have to take responsibility. Sure, the players earn more, but the organization is definitely NOT as altruistic as you might think.
Dana White has done a masterful job of controlling his market. He pretty much scrubbed Randy Couture from UFC history because Randy helped try to organize fighters into a union. Dana White is selling a microcosm of “the American dream”. As the premier MMA organization, rising fighters are looking at the UFC elite with stars in their eyes. Same way the average working class schlub looks at Drumpf and Musk while imagining their own fame and fortune. More people go from riches to rags in the US than go from rags to riches. It’s all in the PR to get people to ignore their own best interests in order to make someone else filthy rich while quietly hoping to become the person everyone else is working to make rich. Hitler is often credited with the quote, “If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will believe it.” THAT is the true American Way. White embodies that greed as well as anyone else in history.
I agree that UFC fighters should earn more, but let’s not pretend that any other organizations are necessarily treating their employees or contractors better other than an extra zero or two on payday. Sex and violence sell, my friend. The boss certainly isn’t going to tell his people to be less sexy or less violent. 😂😂😂

[BlackFalcon03]

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Mike Godwin

[Chazmatazz269]

What the f*ck does that have to do with this?

[BlackFalcon03]

Hitler is often credited with the quote, “If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will believe it.” THAT is the true American Way.

[Chazmatazz269]

I didn’t make a comparison to Hitler or Nazis. I simply used the quote and attributed it, as many people do, to Hitler. Your reading and comprehension skills need work.

[BlackFalcon03]

Yes Godwins law

[BlackFalcon03]

Agree completley. Any young American that has elite athleticism will join the NBA, NFL or whatever. Even boxing is pretty crappy pay unless you are top 100.

UFC & MMA careers are so short that by the time you finish youd lucky if you have made $200,000 in 10 years. Its shocking that a minimum wage job might pay more.

[RingOfFire]

Why do some people become artists, musicians or actors? Almost none of them make enough to survive without having another job to pay the bills. It isn't always a decision based on financial analysis; it is a matter of pursuing something they love doing.

[Chayce]

A lot of them were Olympic Wrestlers, BJJ world champions, Kickboxers etc. it gave them a sport to go to after all of that was over with. And since it has a lot of eyes on it, why not.

[exitseven]

They think that people will think thay are tough. It is not tough to get your brains beat on a regular basis

[robocop666]

Lousy pay and long term health problems. no thanks.

[Iron_Man]

Some people just have it in their blood

[BlackFalcon03]

You are thinking of performance enchancing drugs

[Iron_Man]

@BlackFalcon03 Absolutely Not

[FrodoVader007]

Masochism?