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The payment of UFC fighters, or the lack of it, has been a recent Hoton-Button theme.
It is widely estimated that combatants receive a minor part of the organization’s income compared to athletes in other leagues and fight promotions.
It is also speculated that, despite astronomical growth in recent years, the payment of combatants has not been reduced along with it.
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UFC president Dana White attended for UFC 300 in T-Mobile Arena. (Mark J. Rebila/USA Today Sports)
The president of UFC, Dana White, admitted that the fighters “do not want fans to” know “what they paid them”, but not because they do not win enough.
Rather, White believes they don’t want to give “brochures” when people discover how much they really win.
“There is no gag order in any of these combatants. Everyone could sit and do full interviews about how much they win and what were paid …”, White told Vegas PBS. “When people discover what you did, it makes life much more difficult. There are many people sitting looking for brochures when they discover that you won millions of dollars.”
The CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship, Dana White, speaks on stage the fourth day of the Republican National Convention in the FISVer forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Somodevilla/Getty images)
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White’s net assets is an estimated $ 500 million, and the UFC recently has just obtained an agreement of almost $ 8 billion with Paramount.
In 2014, the former UFC fighters filed a lawsuit at the Las Vegas Federal Court, seeking the class action status, accusing the company to use “an anti -competitive scheme of long -term exclusive combat contracts, coercion and acquisitions of MMA’s rival promoters to establish and maintain dominance in the fighting industry and suppress combat compensation”, according to a Forbes report on developments in demand.
Dana White and his wife Anne arrive at the Rotunda in January 2025. (Ricky CariTi/Pool/AFP through Getty Images)
That demand resulted in a $ 375 million agreement last year.
