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UFC Fighters’ Wage or Lack of Dem-Has has been a recent Hot-Button topic.
It is largely estimated that fighters get a smaller proportion of the organization’s revenue compared to athletes in other leagues and combat campaigns.
There is also a lot of speculation that despite astronomical growth in recent years, Fighters’ salary has not scaled with it.
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UFC President Dana White present under the UFC 300 in the T-Mobile Arena. (Mark J. Revilas/USA Today Sports)
UFC President Dana White admitted that fighters “don’t want” fans to know “what they got paid” but not because they don’t earn enough.
Rather, White thinks they don’t want to give “distributions” when people find out how much they actually make.
“There is no gag order on any of these fighters. They could all sit down and do full interviews about how much they are doing and what they were paid …” said White Vegas PBS. “When people find out what you were doing, it makes life much harder. There are a lot of people sitting around looking for distributions when they find out you earned millions of dollars.”
Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White talking on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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White’s net worth is estimated $ 500 million and the UFC recently scored just a nearly $ 8 billion deal with Paramount.
In 2014, earlier UFC fighters filed a case at Las Vega’s federal court sought class case status, accused the company of using “a competitive scheme of long-term exclusive fighter contracts, coercion and acquisitions of rival MMA promoters of establishing and maintaining domination in the MMA industry and suppressing hunting. Forbes report About the development of the suit.
Dana White and his wife Anne arrive in Rotunda in January 2025. (Ricky Carioti/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
This case resulted in a $ 375 million settlement last year.
