UFC president Dana White says boxers are all "overpaid" in response to criticism that he doesn't pay his fighters enough money to compete.Speaking on a recent episode of the Pivot Podcast, White, 52, defended UFC's business model, insisting that it's far more sustainable, and fairer, than models used by most boxing organisations."One of the big problems with boxing is that all those f****** guys are overpaid, and every time they put on a fight, it’s a going-out-of-business sale," White said. "We’re just trying to get as much f****** money as we can from you guys, and then we’re out of here.
We’ll see you in three years. You can’t build a league like that."You can’t build a sport [like that]. You can’t have 750 fighters under contract, making money, feeding their families every year, with that kind of mentality.
It doesn’t work. You have to run a business," he added."What we did is we built a business model where, if you’re the champion, you share in the pay-per-view revenue.
If you’re the guy headlining the card, or there’s been some special occasions where we know you’re bringing in the money, too, and you’re a big draw so you, too, get to share in the pay-per-view revenue.
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