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05-06-2015 , 03:28 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Faluzure

Reebok compensation numbers out
1-5 fights: 2.5k
6-10: 5k
11-15: 10k
16-20: 15k
21+: 20k
Title challenger: 30k
Champion: 40k

Seems awful

Crap deal for crap money.

A reminder of how restrictive this deal really is:

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/1/15...at-it-means-to

05-06-2015 , 03:29 PM

#27

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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK

Schaub tweeted that he's made 6 figures in each of his last 6 fights.

important fyp

05-06-2015 , 04:27 PM

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Kirbynator

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yep **** deal for ~95%+ of the fighters

05-06-2015 , 04:41 PM

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SteelersDMW

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Originally Posted by Kirbynator

yep **** deal for ~95%+ of the fighters

yup only dudes it benefits are guys who have fought for a long time and have no following.. which doesn't seem like it would be many

05-06-2015 , 04:49 PM

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insane if schaub actually got 100k a fight from nike and whenever

05-06-2015 , 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK

Schaub tweeted that he's made 6 figures in each of his last 6 fights.

Is he talking just sponsorship or overall?

05-06-2015 , 05:40 PM

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PartyGirlUK

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From sponsorship.

@BrendanSchaub

I've made six figures in sponsorship in each of my last 6 fights

05-06-2015 , 05:42 PM

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If they're really boning an journeyman like Schaub out of $90k+ a fight, or $180k+ a year hard to see how the UFC avoids an exodus to Bellator. Will they compensate by raising base pay?

05-06-2015 , 05:45 PM

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And yea, those numbers are outrageously bad. They aren't allowed to have their other sponsors on their shorts right?

I mean I'm pretty sure even Mighty Mouse is making more than 40k a fight from sponsors with xbox and stuff on his shorts. I'd be outraged if I was a fighter. Those numbers are ridiculously pathetic.

05-06-2015 , 05:45 PM

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Mighty Mouse makes more than Schaub, surely...

05-06-2015 , 05:48 PM

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Schaub has been PPV 7 of his last 8 fights. Pretty interesting for a guy 0-5 against top 10 opponents.

05-06-2015 , 05:56 PM

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Joe Lauzon posted on Reddit defending it

Quote:

I laugh at all of this. People should not half-ass read an article and then put out their own information like its fact.

It clearly says in the Boston Herald Article "It’s expected to roughly approximate"... meaning, this is a good guess as to what it MIGHT pay. Yet this is like the 4th article I have seen like its some big announcement on the pay tiers. Awful journalism by everyone that is citing this article.

These would be per fight amounts. I was averaging like 24k or so per fight before. So if I become 20k, but dont need to pay an agent... I am a little less but not much less... so I can deal with those numbers and be content with them.

Kinda shocked Lauzon was only making 24k a fight and Schaub was making 100k+. I guess Joe is biased as he's one of the very few fighters with 20+ fights in the UFC.

Interested to see other fighters replies. I'd think too that something like this would cause a mass exodus to bellator or something. These numbers seem criminal.

05-06-2015 , 06:15 PM

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These numbers add up to 60% of what was said to be allotted for the fighters. Unless the 70 million includes the individual sponsorships of people like McGregor and Vanzant etc. Wonder whats going on here.

05-06-2015 , 06:19 PM

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administration fees ldo

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05-06-2015 , 06:51 PM

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UFC announced the 70 mill as amount allotted for the fighters 100%. So I assumed the UFC was had a seperate deal where they were probably getting a lot more. Would be kinda dumb to announce how much you're paying the fighters over 6 years, then skim off the top of that lol. But it is the UFC after all.

05-07-2015 , 12:12 AM

#41

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Lauzon is in the exact best spot for this setup, a journeyman with a ton of UFC fights. If even he is making a little less then a lot of fighters must really be getting hosed.

I could be remembering wrong but I thought the deal was the $70 mil goes to the UFC, who then doles it out to the fighters. There were concerns when the deal was first announced that the fighters as a whole would get much less than the full $70 million.

05-07-2015 , 04:57 AM

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Yeti

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$11.6m a year seems like absolute peanuts

05-07-2015 , 10:21 AM

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Tim Kennedy Tweeting at Bellator. I'm sure others will follow.

Edit: Kennedy saying he was hacked.

Iaquinta mad:

Navarez upset also:

https://twitter.com/Silverback316/st...17191276904448

05-07-2015 , 10:33 AM

#44

Thug Bubbles

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The oddest part about this are the fighters who are telling other fighters to stop complaining, or saying they're happy to be fighting. It's like the MMA equivalent of spousal abuse syndrome.

05-07-2015 , 10:49 AM

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if those numbers are accurate basically everyone is getting ****ed. Even champs getting 40k is ridiculous.

Maybe there is SOME upside to "outside of top10 and unattractive" female fighters.

05-07-2015 , 12:05 PM

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I bet Reebok is actually paying the UFC $150M+ maybe closer $200M. Wish I was kidding.

05-07-2015 , 12:08 PM

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Nate Quarry said on FB that he was making ~$40k in sponsorships for each fight a few years ago, which would have been $5k under the new deal.

He's also pretty outspoken against the sponsor tax the UFC put in place a couple years ago. He said the company Dethroned was paying $12k for shorts before the tax, but only $250 after.

05-07-2015 , 01:36 PM

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Seems like a lot & probably most of these fighters were making more from sponsorship than pay? Schaub got $32k to fight Browne, Quarry $10k to take on Franklin.

05-07-2015 , 02:22 PM

#49

icepick

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Seems like the fight business is a hard way to make an easy living.

05-07-2015 , 02:24 PM

#50

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think you mean hard way to make a hard living ._.

ive been of the opinion for a while that being an MMA fighter has to be one of the hardest jobs in the world, with some of the highest risks and smallest rewards

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