Quote: (11-21-2012 01:07 AM)Bacchus Wrote:
If UFC wants to put on superfights like Silva vs. Jones, it'll have to pay the fighters more. There's not enough of an incentive for someone for Anderson Silva to risk his reputation and career for $200K plus a bonus. According to this site, Silva has earned less than $3 million dollars from his UFC fights. Boxing, hardly a thriving sport, has bigger paydays for its stars. Floyd Mayweather made $32 million in one fight with Miguel Cotto, which though a good matchup was hardly a superfight. Cotto even made more from that one fight than Silva has from all his UFC fights.
I hope you dont believe that the disclosed fighter pay is all these guys are making for their fights?
I have heard some estimates that after his PPV cut Anderson cleared 7 million just for his UFC 148 fight against Chael.
This is all just estimates because the UFC does not disclose this pay since they are a private company and allowed to do so.
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At 5:17 Forrest talks about getting undisclosed ppv cuts.