{"id":146613,"date":"2015-05-29T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=146613"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:12:01","slug":"report-the-ufc-agrees-to-pay-fighters-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/report-the-ufc-agrees-to-pay-fighters-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: The UFC Agrees To Pay Fighters More Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146614\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money.jpg\" alt=\"dana money\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money.jpg 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money-585x305.jpg 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dana-money-390x203.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UFC has decided to raise the pay for their fighters.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s coming from Adam Martin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaoddsbreaker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAOddsBreaker.com<\/a>. Martin claims that the UFC has raised their minimum contract pay to $10K to fight, $10k to win. That would be an increase from their standard $8K\/$8K.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no official announcement from the UFC, but below you can read Martin&#8217;s Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this is a step in the right direction?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just got confirmation from a manager that the UFC has indeed bumped up the minimum pay for entry fighters to $10,000\/$10,000. Awesome news<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Martin (@MMAdamMartin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAdamMartin\/status\/604040804806578176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS NOT A DRILL! 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There has been no official announcement from the UFC, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":146614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>REPORT: The UFC Agrees To Pay Fighters More Money! | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did the UFC agree to pay their fighters more money....Full story on BJPENN.COM.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/report-the-ufc-agrees-to-pay-fighters-more-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REPORT: The UFC Agrees To Pay Fighters More Money! 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