Based on the history of fighter purses, should a fighter like Anderson Silva make any less than $10M a fight ?

Question

Does that spit in the face of combat sport history and today, seeing as the means are there to pay this man this sort of money, and yet he is in the $100,000's ? Does it spit on MMA? That lesser fighters in other sports have been recognized and compensated far greater than a man who may very well be (aside from Fedor himself) the best fighter in the history of combat sport ?

Answer 1

It is a business so if another organization can put up more money, then the bidding will increase.

MMA is still very new and it doesn't have billions of dollars flowing through yet.

Answer 2

NO, h**l NO. FIRST OFF, HE ONLY BEATIN 2 champs or big names henderson and franklin and two b fighters. his resume is 95% friggin bums man. do some research, fedor resume is 100x better, like i said do some research. ufc will not dish out money cause those fighter dont have much choice right now do they?

Answer 3

$10M a fight? I don't know about that. Dana White doesn't pay his fighters enough, and that's why his guys are leaving to fight for Affliction. Tim Silvia made $800,000 to get his *** kicked by Fedor. Not a bad payday.

Answer 4

dude the highest paid fighter is Chuck Lidell and he only makes 500.000 per fight these guys don't get payed enough if you ask me but it is getting more popular evrey day boxing and other sports been around forever when MMA gets huge like boxing, football, baseball, basketball etc you will see the fighters getting paid alot more $ but until then 100.000- 500.000 is the most these big name UFC fighters will make