The UFC doesn’t pay its fighters enough. They know it, but they don’t like to admit it but make absolutely no mistake…they know it’s true. Dana White basically admitted as much during a seminar at Stanford University from some time back.
Talking with a bunch of college students, he explains that the trick to incentivizing fighters is to not pay them, then force them into more brutal fights on the hope that they might be paid more. Fans know this as “the Fight of the Night bonus.”
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