UFC in war over fair Salaries
Stipe Miocic is the most successful Heavyweight Champion in MMA history. He holds the record for most Heavyweight title defenses ever in an extremely difficult sport where just one mistake can cost a fighter the entire bout.
He beat the UFC's highly touted and anticipated new fighter Francis Ngannou the sledgehammer hitting behemoth of a man from Cameroon with flying colors last week in their championship bout, but he was only paid $600k a mere $100k more than his unproven challenger.
Miocic didn't allow Dana White, the UFC's president, to hand him the belt in protest. I don't blame him.
He's the Champion and got secondary promotion and second rate salary compared to the challenger Francis Nnagannou who got dominated by him in every round.
Fighters have been complaining about the compensation in the world's biggest Mixed Martial Arts organization the UFC for years.
Many fighters have to get second jobs after headlining major TV and PPV events.
When will regulators step in and protect these athletes from the bullying monopoly of the UFC?
Unfortunately ufc and WWE aren't too different from each other. No matter how good a fighter is, if they aren't bringing in numbers, it's gonna be a bad payday.
If you look at ufc fight stats, 500,000 for a championship level fight sounds fair to me unless you can bring in crowds consistently.
Ive always enjoyed mma, and as a martial art enthusiast, I really appreciate fights. For the vast majority of people however, you're going to find that they don't understand fighting and won't be entertained without huge knockouts or a lot of gore and blood.
My solution to this is to try an alternate approach and split the 3 round system is to striking, grappling and then mma. It would make things a lot easier for people to understand and appreciate and therefor draw crowds.
Changing the scoring is a great idea and they’ve made some attempts to fix it.
I think winning a round should be 8 points mostly.
9 points for a dominant round, and 10 points for a dominant round with knockdowns and significantly damaging blows.
That scoring would solve most of the debates. There’d be a few issues but clearly many rounds that are ties ruin the scoring.
The fighters mainly complain when two rounds are razor tight and one round is a blowout that the loser clearly won.
It’s a great sport though and way more cerebral than most people realize!
i don't like the 10 point scoring system for UFC. I dont have an answer to how it should be, but i know that the 10 point system can be improved.
In grappling you could dominate the whole round in offense, or you can be a complete shut down using strong defense. Who wins? in the judge's eyes, its the person who was more aggressive. But should that really be the case? or should it be the one who has the best technique and application?
You would need special judges specifically for those types of bouts. and it would easier to judge if you split the fighting styles up.
A split analysis is a good idea. They could have an expert in each area score.
I think that form truly shapes the outcome such that the better grappler will move and bend and punish the grappler with worse technique.
The same in striking any error in form will be capitalized on like Aldo’s tendency to come in too strong would have cost him the fight later on even if he hadn’t ran in in the first 10 seconds vs McGregor.
If neither person can make significant progress, I agree with you I’d think the points would have to be rewarded to the more aggressive fighter not the guarded defender.
it was not right Stipe Miocic deserved much more, he was superior in the fight against Francis Ngannou
Very right you are, superior in striking, grappling, and strategy, a complete domination in all aspects of the sport
UFC has always been at war over salaries. Just ask Tito , Randy , Ken Shamrock. The list goes on.
Good news for the heavy weight champion. Looks like he is getting a pay bump for his next fight.
https://steemit.com/ufc/@rentmoney/daniel-cormier-talked-to-stipe-miocic-before-accepting-ufc-226-fight-and-had-no-plans-on-fighting-at-heavy-weight
Good article. It’s an ongoing battle for fair pay. I think people are stepping up here. This superfight is a step in the right direction to bignpay for the best fighters.
Great post.