MMA vs Boxing

**abmyers** · 12-20-2007, 02:07 AM

Have you seen the purses that popular MMA fighters are fighting for?

Probably the most popular MMA fighter, Randy Couture, fought for a salary of $250,000 in his last fight against Gabriel Gonzaga (who fought for $45,000.00) in UFC 74. He also received a portion of the PPV revenue, and sources say he made approximately $1,000,000.00 total for the fight. The total PPV revenues for the fight were appox 40 million. Percentage wise, the headline fighters brought home less than 3% of the revenue from the fight.

The biggest boxing fight in history (money wise) was the De La Hoya - Mayweather fight. In that fight, De La Hoya made $52,000,000.00!! Mayweather made $25,000,000.00!! The fight brought in $120,000,000 from PPV. Together, the fighters brought home more than 64% of the PPV revenue.

Am I missing something or are MMA fighters hugely underpaid compared to fighters on the boxing side?

**importeater91** · 12-20-2007, 08:45 AM

i like them both but i like MMA a little better.... MMA is big but not as big as boxing and they havent been around as long as boxing was...maybe thats why

**duramaxedge** · 12-20-2007, 08:52 AM

So lets sum this up in one word.. OVER-PAID

**duramaxedge** · 12-20-2007, 08:52 AM

or is that 2? maybe its a conjunction

**largerthannormal** · 12-20-2007, 10:32 AM

i think MMA is just a growing sport.. the 2 most potential growing sports in the US are hockey and mma .. i think give it a few years to grow and we will see higher % rates.. plus MMA is way better. i fought a few times but never got any $ at our local events.

**legobricks** · 12-20-2007, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by largerthannormal

i think MMA is just a growing sport.. the 2 most potential growing sports in the US are hockey and mma .. i think give it a few years to grow and we will see higher % rates.. plus MMA is way better. i fought a few times but never got any $ at our local events.

Those local events really "kick ass" Hahahah gets ya pumped everytime ya watch them let alone fight in them. If you loose larger, i will make fun of you

Youll be fine tho, in that area there really arent any good fighters, just a bunch of wanna be gang banging white farm boys who think they can fight. ITs kinda funny actually

**largerthannormal** · 12-20-2007, 10:57 AM

ha gotta watch out for the farmers man they can fight too. trustm me. yeah there are not a lot of good figthers here but i have meet a few that can throw down! u know i wont lose bro! hahah well unless i fight way outta my weight class!