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Originally Posted by RRxtar
The one arguement that could be made is that the UFC insists they should be in the same group as major league sports like MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, but all of those leagues have agreements to pay the players ~50% of revenue. All of those leagues assume the costs of training the players as well as promotion/logistics/running the league.
The UFC, by my estimation, pays fighters 5-15% of revenue. And the fighters are responsible for their own training, and up until 2 years ago, were even responsible for their own medical insurance. And at any given time, their employer may simply tell them to fuck off and fire them.
Granted, running a league with teams vs paying contractors to fight are different, but that is still a huge discrepancy.
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True, but that's similar to the WWE, and it still hasn't stopped people from joining that company as well. I mean from a "real world" perspective yes they're comparatively underpaid but it's still a fair price is what they're paying still attracts lines of people trying to join the UFC.
Also, given the career arcs of most fighters, their prime probably doesn't last more than 5-10 years, making it so much harder to market fighters instead of their own brand. The NBA can milk Lebron for 15-20 years, they've been milking Kobe for 18