Because the UFC enters the Paramount period, the talk over fighter pay has resurfaced.
Many individuals marvel how athletes can profit with out a pay-per-view mannequin. UFC CEO Dana White did not present many particulars, however informed reporters that fighters’ pay will improve.
Talking with Josh Thomson on the Weighing In podcast, Cormier claimed that some UFC stars are already excited forward of the UFC’s first present on Paramount+ (through MMAFighting).
“They’re already getting more cash. That is the distinction,” Cormier mentioned. “Individuals all the time discuss, ‘What’s the UFC going to do for the fighters?’ I do know folks now…’Pay-per-view goes away, what are they going to do?’ I do know people who find themselves making more cash now than they did once they had been making pay-per-view. In all probability as a result of pay-per-views weren’t promoting in addition to they used to.
“Once we had been preventing, each time I used to be preventing Jon Jones or (Anthony) ‘Rumble’ Johnson and placing Nick Diaz or Nate Diaz on the cardboard, we had been making some huge cash on pay-per-view. That is not the truth at the moment.”
The primary occasion to start the UFC and Paramount partnership is scheduled to happen on January twenty fourth, when Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethje will conflict for the interim UFC Light-weight Championship. This battle will headline UFC 324.
The cardboard additionally includes a dream match for the ladies’s bantamweight title. Champion Kayla Harrison will face retiring former 135-pound champion Amanda Nunes.
Sean O’Malley may also seem on the UFC 324 card. The previous bantamweight champion is trying to climb the ladder once more. Standing in his approach is Track Yadong, and the 2 will conflict contained in the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas. One other pivotal bantamweight bout scheduled for UFC 324 is Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Deiveson Figueiredo.
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