Some pretty crazy things coming out this morning about the pay that UFC fights are making. Cheyanne Buys, who won her fight and a $50k bonus last night, was saying that she made “10 and 10” for the fight. Honestly, that’s atrocious. Being paid $20k before paying for coaches/training and such, and of course taxes is pretty brutal. For some context, the TV deal that the UFC signed was $1.5bn, and pretty clearly not a lot of that is ending up in the pockets of the athletes.
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