How To Make Money Fighting Mma
So, in order to get into the UFC, you’re going to have to put together a string of, I would say at a minimum, 5 or 6 wins against good opponents. Joe Silva is the matchmaker. You would put your fights up on YouTube, send him the links; he’ll look at what you’ve got; he’ll look at the quality of your opponents, and he’ll let you know. McGregor said he'd make around $80 million for this fight. The PPV costs $65. If this sells 2 million buys - possible, but at the very high end of projections - he'd have to be entitled to 62% of.
| Although you’re, just starting off, probably somewhere in the back of your head, you have the question; “How do I get into the UFC?”. The process to get there is very, very many years in length, unless you’re Brock Lesnar. The key to getting in is to put together a streak of wins against good opponents. If you have 2 or 3 wins against people who have good records, that’s probably not going to do it. If you have, say, 12 fights, in a row; all wins against opponents who are around 50/50 or less than 50/50 fighters, that’s not going to do it. So, in order to get into the UFC, you’re going to have to put together a string of, I would say at a minimum, 5 or 6 wins against good opponents. Joe Silva is the matchmaker. You would put your fights up on YouTube, send him the links; he’ll look at what you’ve got; he’ll look at the quality of your opponents, and he’ll let you know. But that’s many years in the future. |
By: Kirik Jenness
• Coach at New England Submission Fighting
• Commissioner of NAGA
• Former referee for Reality Fighting MMA events
• The certified MMA records keeper for all sanctioned fights in the USA.
• Co-founder & President of The Underground Forum and The UG Store
• Author of the Fighter’s Notebook
• Co-Author of the 1001 Submissions manual
• Involved in Mixed Martial Arts since 1994
• Involved in Martial Arts since 1971
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If you add in more realistic coaching fees and the likely much higher misc fees, both fighters are losing a lot of money.
How To Get In Mma
There are a few other ways that fighters can make money besides their fight purse. For example, fighters can earn anywhere from a couple to a few extra thousand in Reebok sponsorship, which pales in comparison to what most guys were getting from their own sponsors.
Also, there are fight of the night and performance of the night bonuses that a small % of fighters will earn from each card.
To top it off, there’s the “discretionary bonuses” aka the locker-room bonuses that the UFC hands out to the fighters that they deem worthy, but these are far from guaranteed and they’re also very secretive so we’re not sure how to include those in our calculations.
We’re not trying to specifically call out the UFC here either, fighters in Bellator and other promotions are earning SUBSTANTIALLY less. We’re using the UFC as an example because they’re the leaders in MMA.
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