{"id":123608,"date":"2014-12-22T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=123608"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:00:33","slug":"bas-rutten-talks-ufc-lawsuit-course-fighters-get-underpaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/bas-rutten-talks-ufc-lawsuit-course-fighters-get-underpaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bas Rutten Talks UFC Lawsuit: &#8216;Of Course Fighters Get Underpaid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119852\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused.png\" alt=\"Dana confused\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bas Rutten has been around the fight game for a long time. From his MMA debut in 1993 through winning the UFC championship, and his eventual retirement in 2006, Rutten has seen it all.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with his position on Inside MMA, Rutten will likely have to analyze the impending UFC lawsuit. While he hasn&#8217;t had a chance to go over it in detail yet, Bas held firm in his advocacy for fighters, and why they deserve to get paid more.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s hard. I don\u2019t know the depth of the whole lawsuit and I didn\u2019t go into it yet &#8211; and I have to go into it because of Inside MMA. I\u2019m going to probably have to talk about it somewhere in the New Year &#8211; but you know everybody always wants more money. The top guys, they get well paid. They have a good manager, they get a cut of the Pay Per View, and then it\u2019s up to you. If you can sell a fight and you&#8217;re gonna have a lot of Pay Per View buys, then you\u2019re going to make more money. Sometimes the lighter weights, they&#8217;re complaining and they say &#8220;yeah some lightweights, they simply don\u2019t pull in the Pay Per View numbers&#8221;. You know, if they pull in 200,000 pay per view numbers, compared to a [Daniel] Cormier and [Jon] Jones &#8211; they&#8217;re going to probably go over a million in January because of the whole thing that happened before. You see, those guys are making money, and the other guys are making less now. And I\u2019m not going to say you\u2019re going to have to attack your opponent at the weigh-ins and all that stuff, but I say that you have to sell the fight. You have to start doing something that people are going to be interested to watch that fight; to say &#8220;oh my god these guys have bad blood&#8221; or whatever. Whatever angle you can find, and hopefully it\u2019s a real angle like a Jones and Cormier. Then people will tune in. So it kind of depends on the fighters. And if they don\u2019t pull it in, then that\u2019s too bad. Then hopefully the money is going to raise the basic money. But I believe they all have about &#8211; I don\u2019t know what it is. I think it\u2019s about 250,000 dollars it\u2019s basic money, and some maybe 500,000 like a Jones. I think, I never looked into that &#8211; But everyone really makes their money with the pay per view buys.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo fighters get underpaid? Of course. I always say that. And I will always say that until everybody starts to make really good money. Because there are still fighters they simple can\u2019t live from the money that they make. And then they need to fight at least four times a year, which is also not going to happen, you know? So if you only have like two fights and you\u2019re a beginning fighter, and you only make like 10,000 and 10,000 or something even less. Well good luck with that. If it\u2019s 40,000 dollars a year; I don\u2019t know if people know what training costs, and getting good people in, and paying your management, and paying your trainer. Boom. That\u2019s 20 percent gone right there. So now it\u2019s only 32,000 from 40,000 dollars. Oh well the taxes are going to come. Ok you can write some things off, but you can\u2019t live on that. So most of the time that money [to live off] comes also from sponsors. You know the sponsor deal actually from Reebook that&#8217;s coming up, that sounds really promising to me; you know 70 million. All that money is gonna be spread out amongst the fighters. Of course some fighters get more because they&#8217;re more popular. They have this popularity scale, I don\u2019t know how to call it any different. And that\u2019s how they\u2019re going to see, &#8216;this guy gets so much, that guy gets so much&#8217;. But it\u2019s a lot of money 70 million dollars. And spread out over &#8211; I don\u2019t know how many fighters they have. 700 or something? &#8211; it\u2019s still a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via Submission Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bas Rutten has been around the fight game for a long time. From his MMA debut in 1993 through winning the UFC championship, and his eventual retirement in 2006, Rutten has seen it all. Now, with his position on Inside MMA, Rutten will likely have to analyze the impending UFC lawsuit. 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