In a recent appearance on the Pardon My Take podcast, Dana White shared an interesting theory as to why fighters don’t tell people how much they really make. White revealed that while the UFC doesn’t disclose fighter salaries, the fighters are allowed to let people know how much they make for every fight.
They choose not to, however, because if their salaries were made public, everyone would start ‘hitting them up’, asking for money, claimed White. The UFC supremo also alluded that the promotion pays fighters adequately. He went on to say that fighters are comfortable with the apparently false narrative that they are not paid enough so that people don’t try to borrow money from them.
Catch Dana White’s full interview below:
Dana White claims UFC preliminary card fighter got paid way more than former boxing world-champ
On the same podcast, Dana White revealed that the UFC paid a fighter $750,000 for competing in the preliminary card of the recently concluded UFC 268 pay-per-view. To put it in context, White cited the example of former world champion boxer Badou Jack who made only $75K for fighting this weekend.
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