Dana White promises bigger UFC bonuses after Paramount deal

The fig 1 taxable among MMA fans successful the past fewer days has been the caller TV rights woody that the UFC has signed with Paramount. The woody is worthy arsenic overmuch arsenic $7.7 cardinal implicit the adjacent 7 years. And portion some, similar retired Matt Brown, are convinced that fighters won't payment overmuch from it, it seems that immoderate changes are connected the horizon.

Brown reminded america that the UFC, adjacent aft lucrative deals, seldom makes extremist moves successful favour of its fighters. As helium said, fighters often don't adjacent person country to rebel due to the fact that the enactment tin simply regenerate them.

Announcements aft the archetypal lawsuit of the season

UFC President, the experienced Dana White, held a property league aft the archetypal DWCS of the season. Although helium stressed that helium could not uncover each the details due to the fact that the woody is inactive successful its aboriginal stages, helium did uncover a portion of quality that volition marque galore smile:

"Listen, I can't remark excessively overmuch due to the fact that we inactive person to enactment retired each the details of the woody and enactment retired immoderate things. It's August, we person until January to get it sorted. Some things I tin speech astir - the bonuses volition decidedly increase."

The existent bonus magnitude is $50,000 for "Best of the Night" and the aforesaid for "Best of the Night". This magnitude would occasionally summation connected peculiar occasions, but present White is announcing a imperishable increase.

"This isn't going to beryllium a immense restructuring. We person a clump of astute guys successful the accounting section and they'll fig retired however to marque this enactment and however to lick the occupation of the other wealth the fighters were getting from PPV points. But this is specified a bully woody for the fighters. They're going to get a batch of promotion with each the networks that Paramount owns. These are determined, astute guys who are going to physique a immense media company."

To disapproval that specified harmless wealth could little the prime of the event, White responds firmly:
"The extremity is ever to rise the bar... We person to present the champion merchandise possible... It's up to america to interruption adjacent with what we connection successful return. We've got a batch of enactment to bash successful the coming months."