I watched a CBC piece on MMA, fighter pay, health care, a pension plan, along with the discussion of any fighters union. The piece basically asserted Dana White is your most evil man on the planet thinking that grown men, who also are actually the fiercest warriors on earth, are being used, abused, and started advantage of.But is the idea that really how it really is? Is Dana White the person answerable for this all?Dana White gets a number of unwarranted hate for things people let slide when it's other organizations doing them, yet i think it really is ridiculous. People blame Dana White for there being no fighters union, people blame him for lower level fighters making peanuts, they blame him for nearly everything that's wrong with MMA. It's amazing with me which the face of recent MMA, your partner who helped build the sport we love, is likewise the man everybody uses being a scapegoat for your state of things within a Mixed Martial Arts world.I'm sure most of the peopl e who look at this will disagree with me, but for me don't really care, this is actually the truth, and it has to become said.Everybody is speaking about the $275 million the UFC made in 2008, they compare that into the $27 million the UFC paid it's fighters in 2008 and they scream corruption, greed, and theft. First on our list, the huge amount paid towards the fighters is the thing that goes on record when their official pay, Dana White and several fighters have spoken out concerning the extra cash bonuses fighters receive in the event that they put upon a superb show. Sometimes approximately $50,000. When that point is remarked, people usually respond with, "that may not be guaranteed income though." In case the fighters are so upset about this, they will be able to be around the corner.Let's just say for arguments sake that the UFC paid $40 million with their fighters in 2008. Subtract $40 million from $275 million, you aquire $235 million. This is where the situation li es, the UFC made $235 million in profit in 2008, along with the fighters only made $40 million. I can understand the frustration, but could you blame Dana White along with the Fertitta Brothers? They got into a hobby where they solely have to pay the athletes. The beauty of MMA is the idea that there exists there is no other employees, owners just agree to pay the fighters and pocket the remaining. Another plus is your absence of productions costs along with the proven fact that it's doesn't cost any money helping put MMA on PPV.If you add that to your fact that because MMA is known as a new sport, it's exempt from any and all taxes and bring into consideration that advertising, marketing, and venue fees will be waived by generous people who run businesses due to the young age of many sport, you actually is not angry with them, is it possible?They saw a chance and that they seized it. They realized they could put 20-25 high caliber MMA shows on every single year without the need to invest anything at all into anything except fighter pay. That's smart business. I wish I had known in advance which it didn't cost anything to run a premiere MMA show, I might've found myself in the work myself. It appears to be strange though that all of such other shows will need due to business, or maybe it's just the UFC that will get to operate their shows for free, who could say?Enter the blame on Dana White for there not becoming fighters union? While I disagree with many different stuff Dana White says and does, a fighters union isn't his responsibility, nor is it the responsibility of any MMA promoter/owner/president. The creation of any fighters union is in the hands of the fighters, but conduct the fighters need a fighters union? Randy Couture sure does, but who else? I'm sure loads of fighters wouldn't mind a fighters union, except a number of guys seem information with training their own personal contracts and that they seem content doing that in the UFC . Maybe that's just me though.Near to pensions/health care/etc... Where's Afflictions Health Care plan? Does DREAM present you with a pension plan to it's fighters? I'm asking, due the the fact i don't know. But I'm eager to bet that they don't. It's not just Dana White and the UFC, it's MMA generally.Don't get me wrong, If i recall the UFC are capable to buy to pay for their fighters more, but for me do not that they have to. They pay the highest guys the important bucks, they pay the fighters promoting the pay-per-views what remedy they deserve, and they pay the guys who will be trying to become the guys selling the pay-per-views whatever they deserve. There isn't any problem here.For those of you who still want to crucify Dana White along with the UFC for your way they pay their fighters, consider the fighter finance Affliction's inaugural event:Affliction Banned Pay:Fedor Emelianenko ($300,000/$300,000 to indicate and no win bonus) def. Tim Sylvia ($800,000)Andrei Arlovs ki ($750,000/$500,000 to indicate and $250,000 win bonus) def. Ben Rothwell ($250,000)Josh Barnett ($300,000/$300,000 to show and no win bonus) def. Pedro Rizzo ($70,000)Mark Hominick ($10,000/$5,000 to show and $5,000 win bonus) def. Savant Young ($7,000)Matt Lindland ($300,000/$225,000 to indicate and $75,000 win bonus) def. Fabio Negao ($20,000)Renato Sobral ($90,000/$60,000 to point out and $30,000 win bonus) def. Mike Whitehead ($50,000)Mike Pyle ($20,000/$15,000 to show and $5,000 win bonus) def. JJ Ambrose ($5,000)Vitor Belfort ($140,000/$70,000 to show and $70,000 win bonus) def. Terry Martin ($30,000)Antonio Rogerio Nogueira ($50,000/$50,000 to point out and no win bonus) def. Edwin Dewees ($15,000)Paul Buentello ($80,000/$60,000 to indicate and $20,000 win bonus) def. Gary Goodridge ($25,000)Swing Bout (Cancelled): Ray Lizama ($3,000) vs. Justin Levens ($6,000)Total Base Pay: $2,866,000Total Bonuses: $455,000Total Payroll: $3,321,000Total Payroll for your Top 6 Guy s on the 22 Fighter Card: $2,700,000Remaining Payroll left to get dealt out to the other 16: $621,000Those numbers look fair, don't they? Although numbers certainly are a little off mainly because that it was Afflictions first event and this had little to no filler fights, it only has shown that it is really not only the UFC paying their lower level fighters peanuts. Surely that the Dana White haters will have some excuse because of this, save your breath; the proof is within a numbers. I'm really curious to see precisely how the payouts keep Affliction 2. But I'm also curious why we an organization that's eager to pay Tim Sylvia $800,000 is simply prepared to pay Savant Young $7000 to show? In fairness, what i mean between the amount the very best guy made about this card and the quantity of the end guy made is much larger than any UFC in recent memory.Don't take this text most likely for me blindly following Dana White along with the UFC, I'm incredibly critical analysts a nd some of many stuff they do. I did not agree with everything Dana does; the complete Jon Fitch/UFC 2009 Undisputed Mac game and pc game thing was stupid, trash talking former fighters and champions because they left your organization is pretty stupid, but building MMA to a point where we can whine about what fighters make due to the reason that the sport may be that successful isn't.
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