Tito Ortiz Makes a Fair Proposal: UFC Should Pay Fighters 30% of Revenues

Filed under: Fighting, MMA, MMA/BoxingAs he prepares for what is being advertised as his last fight in the organization at UFC 84, Tito Ortiz is, as he so often has, talking about his belief that UFC fighters should make more money.Ortiz told MMA Mania that he thinks fighters should make about 30% of revenues, and Michael Rome of Bloody Elbow crunches some numbers and says that would be a significant pay raise from where they are now.But while it would be significantly more than they make now, it would be nowhere near as much as athletes in other sports make. Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal reports that baseball players make 51% to 55% of MLB revenues, football players make 59% of NFL revenues, basketball players make 57% of NBA revenues and hockey players make 55.6% of NHL revenues.Continue reading Tito Ortiz Makes a Fair Proposal: UFC Should Pay Fighters 30% of RevenuesPermalink | Email this | Comments more...