If you add in more realistic coaching fees and the likely much higher misc fees, both fighters are losing a lot of money.
There are a few other ways that fighters can make money besides their fight purse. For example, fighters can earn anywhere from a couple to a few extra thousand in Reebok sponsorship, which pales in comparison to what most guys were getting from their own sponsors.
Also, there are fight of the night and performance of the night bonuses that a small % of fighters will earn from each card.
To top it off, there’s the “discretionary bonuses” aka the locker-room bonuses that the UFC hands out to the fighters that they deem worthy, but these are far from guaranteed and they’re also very secretive so we’re not sure how to include those in our calculations.
We’re not trying to specifically call out the UFC here either, fighters in Bellator and other promotions are earning SUBSTANTIALLY less. We’re using the UFC as an example because they’re the leaders in MMA.
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