It’s Always A Good Idea To Pay The Men With The Huge Muscles

While talk of the UFC being THE!NEXT!BEST!THING! has cooled down a bit (yeah, there’s not gonna be an HBO show), the fact is that the league is still badass and popular. So of course, that means certain people are making money hand over fist. Unfortunately those throwing fists aren’t getting much of it, or that’s what they want us to think, and who are we to argue… please don’t hurt us!

Popular former light-heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz said recently there’s too great of an inequity between UFC’s profits — a tightly guarded secret — and what the organization is disbursing in fighter purses and bonuses.

“Like Randy, I want to make sure that the top guys get what we’re entitled to, and that the smaller guys get bumped up,” Ortiz said. “When I’m hearing the UFC made $42 million from my [December 2006] fight with Chuck Liddell, and that both me and Chuck got $1.5 million, I think we’re being cut out, and being taken advantage of.

“Now, Randy’s speaking out about it. Why should the company keep all the money? Why do they get the pie, and we get the crumbs?”

OK, while we support the fighters getting their fair share, we also realize $1.5 million isn’t crumbs. But then again, we see something like this happen, and we wonder how much it would take for us to get in the ring.

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This UFC battle is all about money [LA Times]
Image [LA Times]