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doctahhobo (12/14/2015) [-] Wait whoa hold the **** up....did he seriously make 14 mil or is that a fake number?
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machiavellianhumor (12/15/2015) [-] main event winners get more than the ones who aren't main event and who didn't win. there's a split in percentages based on how many buys the pay per view sells. more pay per view buys. more money. less pay per view buys less money
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nywrestler (12/14/2015) [-] He made $500k in disclosed salary from the UFC, as well as probably a decent amount of undisclosed bonuses and sponsor money from Reebok. But 16 mil? This would be the first I've heard about a number that high, where did you see that?
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evilhomer [OP](12/14/2015) [-] www.smh.com.au/sport/us-sports/ufc-194-conor-mcgregor-earns-13-million-per-second-in-defeat-of-jose-aldo-20151214-glmqrk.html
www.forbes.com/sites/mattconnolly/2015/12/13/ufc-194-conor-mcgregor-breaks-ronda-rouseys-earnings-per-second-record-with-quick-ko-win/
All the pay-per-views they brought in for the fight, all the people that attended, sponsors etc. They also get a big cut of that
www.forbes.com/sites/mattconnolly/2015/12/13/ufc-194-conor-mcgregor-breaks-ronda-rouseys-earnings-per-second-record-with-quick-ko-win/
All the pay-per-views they brought in for the fight, all the people that attended, sponsors etc. They also get a big cut of that
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nywrestler (12/14/2015) [-] Interesting. As you can see from the articles you posted, the media isn't privy to the exact terms of UFC fighter contracts as far as how much of a cut of PPV money they receive. Even at conservative estimates the Forbes article says it would be $3 per PPV buy, so likely to be over 3 million bucks in his pocket plus his salary and sponsorships.
The numbers in the smh article don't really make much sense though. The say he'll make $12 million off of the PPV which would equate to 20% of the gross, which would be $12 per buy and seems quite high. Even believing that he's getting $12 million from the PPV I don't know where they got the other $3.5 million from to land him at an eventual $16 million for the nights work.
I think the truth probably lies somewhere closer to Forbes estimate, since with the numbers that they provided the math adds up. Still $3.5 mil-$8 mil puts him way up at the top as far as a UFC fighter making money off of one fight. The only other fighters who have even come close to that are Rousey and possibly Brock when he first came over and brought lots of WWE fans with him.
The numbers in the smh article don't really make much sense though. The say he'll make $12 million off of the PPV which would equate to 20% of the gross, which would be $12 per buy and seems quite high. Even believing that he's getting $12 million from the PPV I don't know where they got the other $3.5 million from to land him at an eventual $16 million for the nights work.
I think the truth probably lies somewhere closer to Forbes estimate, since with the numbers that they provided the math adds up. Still $3.5 mil-$8 mil puts him way up at the top as far as a UFC fighter making money off of one fight. The only other fighters who have even come close to that are Rousey and possibly Brock when he first came over and brought lots of WWE fans with him.
