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Originally Posted by Instant Classic
Is it good for the sport when it's run and conrolled by a dictator? A guy who is so petty and childish, he'll cut an entire trainging camp because they wont sign there likeness away for life, for next to nothing? You're forgetting that those other leagues have unions, and before the unions the players got raped, much like fighters are today. When Frankie Edgar is your LW champion, and he only made 50 K to show. I know he isn't a huge draw, but he's a fucking champion and I think he should earn more than 50k to show for a fight. Or how about when Shane Carwin fighting in what was up until that point arguably the company biggest fight, he makes a measly 44K to show. And that was during a time when there was competetion.
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That argument doesn't necessarily work because Strikeforce wasn't paying their fighters much better.
Carano vs. Cyborg Santos was the biggest show in that company's history (hell it's one of the highest rated fight cards in MMA history period) and sold more tickets than Silva v. Sonnen in that same building. Santos made $25,000 for that. On that same card (a card that also sold more tickets than Edgar/Maynard) Gilbert Melendez only made $50,000 as their lightweight champion.
In the big Feijao/ Hendo fight they paid their reigning champion $28,000 going in.
It's PRIZE fighting. Being a draw is the biggest factor in determining someone's pay. Edgar v. Maynard only sold 7,000 tickets. 40% of the people there got in free. And Frankie made $170,000 at the end of the night anyways due to his win bonus and fight of the night bonus.