{"id":348925,"date":"2020-05-05T11:21:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=348925"},"modified":"2020-05-05T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:21:25","slug":"former-presidential-candidate-andrew-yang-slams-ufc-over-fighter-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/former-presidential-candidate-andrew-yang-slams-ufc-over-fighter-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang slams UFC over fighter pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former United States presidential candidate Andrew Yang believes UFC fighters aren&#8217;t getting a big enough piece of the pie.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, who recently withdrew from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, opened up on the topic of fighter pay in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2020\/5\/5\/21247637\/andrew-yang-ufc-fighter-exploitation-leslie-smith-us-politics-mma-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karim Zidan of BloodyElbow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"CKkNac\">\u201cI\u2019m a numbers guy,\u201d Yang said. \u201cIn every other sport, athletes are receiving anywhere between 47-50% of the sport\u2019s revenue. In the UFC, the estimates are that fighters are receiving anywhere between the 10-15% range. And that\u2019s not surprising when you look at the payouts for fighters, or even if you look at a major PPV card \u2014 those fighters are getting paid 25, 30, or 35,000 to fight, and these are fighters who are at the top of the industry. Meanwhile, these fighters generally only fight a couple of times a year and have to pay coaches and many of the expenses.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2IME0y\">\u201cYou have a major sport with billions of dollars of value, where the athletes often can\u2019t afford to fight full-time, and it is only because the UFC systematically squashed any effort for fighters to be treated the same way athletes are in other sports,\u201d Yang added.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, a host of UFC events have been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This has deprived many <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-fighter-duda-santana-had-to-rely-on-donations-from-fellow-ufc-stars-to-survive-pandemic\/\">hard-up fighters<\/a> of the chance to earn paydays, which has pulled the issue of fighter pay into the limelight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"oNgm3U\">\u201cI think fighters have been exploited for years and years and that exploitation becomes more apparent in this environment when the fighters aren\u2019t able to compete and their entire livelihood has dried up,\u201d Yang said.<\/p>\n<p>Yang concluded by praising MMA fighters for their discipline, and lamenting the fact that they&#8217;re not paid accordingly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-entry-content \">\n<p id=\"FeojNr\">\u201cUFC fighters are role models to millions of Americans, myself included, because of the discipline and perseverance and courage that they display,&#8221; Yang stated. &#8220;It is really unfortunate that they are working in an industry that doesn\u2019t properly reward their athletic talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from the former presidential hopeful Andrew Yang?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/5\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former United States presidential candidate Andrew Yang believes UFC fighters aren&#8217;t getting a big enough piece of the pie. Yang, who recently withdrew from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, opened up on the topic of fighter pay in an interview with Karim Zidan of BloodyElbow. \u201cI\u2019m a numbers guy,\u201d Yang said. \u201cIn every other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":348926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[73216,39610],"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>Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang slams UFC over fighter pay | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former United States presidential candidate Andrew Yang believes UFC fighters aren&#039;t getting a big enough piece of the pie.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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