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Fighter pay will always be a hot topic. UFC veteran heavyweight Matt Mitrione<\/a> recently spoke on the Three Amigos Podcast and talked about his own issues with the pay scale set by the UFC (transcribed by MMA Mania<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“I don’t necessarily agree that it’s going to have to force a trickle down to everybody else because they — the UFC — don’t care. They’re going to say, ‘Yeah, Conor’s making $100 million, so you’re going to take 10 [thousand] and 10 and you’re going to like it, or your just not going to fight and that’s all there is to it. Like Paige [VanZant] and Sage [Northcutt], they get paid more than I do. I’ve had 13 fights in the UFC — should’ve been 14 with [Stefan] Struve — and Paige and Sage both get paid more than I do. That’s ridiculous.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While fighters at the top of their divisions are getting paid the highest and most of them having good things to say about their pay such as Joanna Jedrzejczyk<\/a>, apparently, not all the fighters are happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fighter pay will always be a hot topic. 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