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Originally Posted by Mr.pain
Who's talking about enough to retire on?
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Over 99% of baseball players make pocket change in the minor leagues, or never make it that far in the first place.
College football weeds out most high school players, then most college players are weeded out by the NFL.
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
MMA is still a growing sport, and the UFC is spending enormous amounts of money in expanding to new markets, money that is no longer available to pay to the fighters.
If they did spend it on the fighters, they'd have all the elite fighters in the world, instead of paying pocket change to guys who are essentially minor leaguers. Do you really think the Carmello Marrero's of the world are any more valuable than 20 other guys who would kill for a UFC shot? Thats why they are paid nothing, because
getting the shot is worth its weight in gold.