Apparently 68K plus irish fans tried to get tickets for Aldo/Mcgregor press conference

[RubioTheCruel]

Do you ever seeing a UFC fighter breaking the system like Floyd and making huge bank? i'm looking at the salary for these fighters like it can't be this low

No way; the UFC's business model makes it impossible. Salaries for the top stars will go up, but they'll never be able to make big bank like Floyd makes

 

[Master Teacher]

Do you ever seeing a UFC fighter breaking the system like Floyd and making huge bank? i'm looking at the salary for these fighters like it can't be this low

The UFC is running an entire sport 24/7
they can't afford to pay them like that, because they have too many responsibilities for one, and for two they don't have too because they have no where else to go

Boxing is a sport but it is not a league like the NBA and the UFC

Mayweather doesn't have a promoter, that's why he makes all that money, because he promotes himself
he puts up his money to put together his events, which is why he said he would wire manny 40 million up front when they first talked on the phone a while back

UFC fighters are just employees, just like an independent rapper like E-40 was making more money than the artist signed to big labels who were going platinum

 

[So UnThotful]

its not really impressive, Ireland has nothing else to cheer for in sports

Aint shyt in soccer
Always getting sonned by southern hemisphere rugby teams

so first dude that has some success they were like

 

[NaiSim]

Your numbers are off breh.

1. You have to divide that $42 million by 2 because the cable companies take a 50% cut.

2. Conor getting at least $5 million? No chance. Conor & Aldo are not getting $5 million each, not even that close. GSP & Brock get around $5 million a fight. Conor & Aldo are not GSP/Brock. Let's say the PPV is a success, I would guess that Conor will get around $1 million. Jose will get about the same.

3. Robbie is not getting $2.5 million. I doubt he even gets half of that. Depending on if he wins and his cut of the PPV, Robbie will probably make around 700-800k. Rory on the other hand does not get a cut of the PPV and depending on if he wins or not, will get in the neighbourhood of 500k. More if he wins and less if he loses.

* I doubt Conor gets a cut of the PPV, that's reserved for champions and established stars.

1. Fair point.

2. Recently there was a headline of the UFC blocking a $6 million dollar payment to Anderson after he tested positive. He made that money off of 600k buys. If you subtract $800k which is the show and win money, that gives you $5 million PPV earnings. Again that's off of 600k buys. GSP in his last three fights averaged 760k buys. He almost certainly got more than $5 million, especially since for a long time he was the top draw and most certainly had the best contract.

this is Randy Couture's contract from 2007:

The scale provided by Couture was an escalator bonus system. Couture was entitled to $1 per buy on buys 100,000 through 175,000, $1.50 on buys 175,000 through 300,000, $2 on buys 300,000 through 330,000, and $3 per buy on buys over 330,000. With most UFC shows now believed to do over 330,000 buys, under the scale fighters would be entitled to $322,500 plus $3 per buy for every buy over 330,000. While not confirmed, it is believed that the scale is not unique to Couture and instead represents the standard arrangement with other top fighters in the company.

http://mmapayout.com/2007/10/inside-the-ufc-bonus-system/

With this contract Anderson would have only earned $1.132 million. He earned $5 million instead. Imagine how much better his or GSP's contracts are.


3. Robbie as champ gets PPV points. Every UFC champs gets them, in fact even title challengers get PPV points. That's their big payday. Usually Robbie wouldn't get $2.5 million because he's not a big draw, but by being on massive Aldo-McGregor card, his PPV points are going to net him a bigger than usual return. Rory will also benefit. If Robbie and Rory were on their own card, they'd probably make less than half. But this card is probably doing 700k+ buys which is when PPV points really kick off.

4. Connor renegotiated his contract before UFC 178 and most definitely gets PPV earnings. He got them for UFC 178. Big draws like Sonnen or Connor get rewarded that way.

If I had to guess, the only fighters that I see getting $2.5+ million in the UFC are Jones, Anderson and Rousey.

Anderson is making more than twice that as seen by the blocked payment. And Jon Jones was bragging to DC about sitting on $20 million. And Jones isn't even a big draw outside of the DC and Rashad fights.

 

[Roman Brady]

Conor's gonna have to back up a LOT of talk. He's great for the UFC. This shyt is going to go over 2M buys. Watch.

oh you are ing

 

[OfTheCross]

Hmm.. If Ronda did 600k buys and for a $1mm bonus...

Conor looking at $4mm pay day, maybe


Edit: smh at the PPV revenue possibly being $120mm and he only gets 4

Bruhs...

Supposedly Aldo's payday was going to be $4mm. I was on point...

Also...Dana just said this fight will do more than 1.6 million PPVs

With Aldo it would have definitely hit 2...now we'll see

 

[Grand Conde]

He doesn't have a country rooting for him. He is very popular with males aged 15-25. Outside of them no one really cares about him or the UFC. If my family saw his picture they wouldn't know who the fukk he was.

He is also a rich kid that went to a rich school in Dublin. Boxers like Lee, Duddy etc are far more likeable.

http://tfk.thefreekick.com/t/the-conor-mcgreogor-is-a-twat-club/20774/8

 

[The Infamous]

He doesn't have a country rooting for him. He is very popular with males aged 15-25. Outside of them no one really cares about him or the UFC. If my family saw his picture they wouldn't know who the fukk he was.

He is also a rich kid that went to a rich school in Dublin. Boxers like Lee, Duddy etc are far more likeable.

http://tfk.thefreekick.com/t/the-conor-mcgreogor-is-a-twat-club/20774/8

You're right in the sense that a decent amount of people don't like him because he's too loud/cocky. But to say he's only popular with males aged 15-25 is untrue. Dude has become one of the most popular athletes in Ireland. He has been the most searched athlete in Ireland the past few years running. He's been talked about more than rugby/soccer stars, which is crazy considering the popularity of the above-mentioned sports in Ireland.

http://fansided.com/2014/12/16/conor-mcgregor-searched-irish-athlete/

 

[OfTheCross]

He doesn't have a country rooting for him. He is very popular with males aged 15-25. Outside of them no one really cares about him or the UFC. If my family saw his picture they wouldn't know who the fukk he was.

He is also a rich kid that went to a rich school in Dublin. Boxers like Lee, Duddy etc are far more likeable.

http://tfk.thefreekick.com/t/the-conor-mcgreogor-is-a-twat-club/20774/8

Interesting... Any more insight you can give us about him since you're there?

 

[OfTheCross]

You're right in the sense that a decent amount of people don't like him because he's too loud/cocky. But to say he's only popular with males aged 15-25 is untrue. Dude has become one of the most popular athletes in Ireland. He has been the most searched athlete in Ireland the past few years running. He's been talked about more than rugby/soccer stars, which is crazy considering the popularity of the above-mentioned sports.

http://fansided.com/2014/12/16/conor-mcgregor-searched-irish-athlete/

Good point... The youth drives those numbers tho.

You can both be right

 

[The Infamous]

In my workplace, I've met 3 random people from Ireland. All three of them knew about Conor and the fight he had coming up with Aldo. Funny thing is, 2 of them weren't a fan because they said he talks way too much.

 

[The Infamous]

He's not as liked in Ireland as the UFC would lead you to believe, but he's definitely very popular.

 

[Grand Conde]

You're right in the sense that a decent amount of people don't like him because he's too loud/cocky. But to say he's only popular with males aged 15-25 is untrue. Dude has become one of the most popular athletes in Ireland. He has been the most searched athlete in Ireland the past few years running. He's been talked about more than rugby/soccer stars, which is crazy considering the popularity of the above-mentioned sports.

http://fansided.com/2014/12/16/conor-mcgregor-searched-irish-athlete/

Google searches is a pretty shytty barometer. Everyone already knows who the big soccer/rugby/boxing/GAA etc players are, you search for people you've just heard about recently.

Also the rugby/soccer seasons are currently over, only the GAA season is ongoing and the lads in Dublin city need someone/somthing to follow when Man United, Chelsea, Leinster etc aren't playing.

And in the end of the day absolutely everyone knows who O'Driscoll, Shefflin, Roy Keane, Robbie Keane etc are. McGregor...less so.

 

[Grand Conde]

He's not as liked in Ireland as the UFC would lead you to believe, but he's definitely very popular.

Depends on your background really.

Thing is he is (a) very cocky, which Irish people don't like and (b) a rich kid that went to a rugby school, another thing a lot of Irish people don't like.

 

[The Infamous]

Google searches is a pretty shytty barometer. Everyone already knows who the big soccer/rugby/boxing/GAA etc players are, you search for people you've just heard about recently.

Also the rugby/soccer seasons are currently over, only the GAA season is ongoing and the lads in Dublin city need someone/somthing to follow when Man United, Chelsea, Leinster etc aren't playing.

No, it isn't. Google Trends is a good indicator of a person's popularity. It obviously isn't perfect, but it's one of the best tools available to gauge a person's popularity.