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UFC President Dana White is sounding off on the recent fight purses in boxing and at the same time defending the league he has built.<\/p>\n

Dana White has come under fire for several years now concerning fighter pay in the UFC. High profile fighters have spoken out about fighter pay or lack thereof. Jake Paul<\/a>, YouTuber and boxer, seems to have turned fighter pay into his personal vendetta, regularly calling out the UFC President.<\/p>\n

White, speaking on ‘The Pivot Podcast’ when asked about fighter pay, opened up and had this to say (h\/t MMAFIGHTING<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always gonna be head butting. Do you make enough money? Do you? I want to meet that guy that goes, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m good. I make plenty of money. I don\u2019t need another dime.\u2019 You\u2019re never going to meet that guy. It\u2019s never going to happen. Everybody wants more money. And one of the big problems with boxing too, is that all those f****** guys are overpaid, and every time they put on a fight, it\u2019s a going-out-of-business sale. We\u2019re just trying to get as much f****** money as we can from you guys, and then we\u2019re out of here. We\u2019ll see you in three years.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing Dana White said:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t build a league like that. You can\u2019t build a sport. You can\u2019t have 750 fighters under contract, making money, feeding their families every year, with that kind of mentality. It doesn\u2019t work. You have to run a business.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking on incentives like pay-per-view points to boost salaries, White said:<\/p>\n

“What we did it we built a business model where, if you\u2019re the champion, you share in the pay-per-view revenue. If you\u2019re the guy headlining the card, or there\u2019s been some special occasions where we know you\u2019re bringing in the money, too, and you\u2019re a big draw so you, too, get to share in the pay-per-view revenue. You eat what you kill.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking further on $$’s within the UFC, Dana White said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, you get some of these guys that \u2014 you can walk in and say, \u2018I want $30 million dollars.\u2019 OK, based on what? I do too. Give me $30 million. We all want $30 million, but based on what? And you\u2019re never going to have the guys on the other side worrying about the business of the sport. Because this isn\u2019t a team sport. … In this sport here, it\u2019s about me. \u2018I\u2019m the biggest f****** star here. I knocked out 30 people. I did this, I did that. I want as much money as I can get, and I really don\u2019t give a s*** about anybody else, including you, the boss that runs the business. I don\u2019t care about this whole business. It\u2019s about me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Adding that what White does is run a real business, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you have to maintain some sort of control over that type of stuff to run a real business, because at the end of the day, the reason this business has been this rocket ship of success is because not only have we built a solid (business) where these fighters are all making lots of money and doing well \u2014 even guys that are journeymen (are doing well).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally defending his successful venture, he concluded:<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s what I always say: if you don\u2019t like what I\u2019m doing, you don\u2019t like the way I\u2019m doing it, go out and raise some money, I did, and start your own and pay them what ever you want to pay them. We built one of the most successful sports leagues of all time in 20 years. People actually want to invest money into this thing, which makes the sport grow which makes more opportunities for more people, not just the fighters but my employees, and the people that we hire, and it just continues to grow and grow. When you let these people come in and suck all the life and the money out, it doesn\u2019t work. You have to run a real business and you have to have a business that people are interested and want to invest in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you agree with Dana White or are you of the opinion that UFC fighters are right in asking for more pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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