SalariesYou want to talk about cheap pay lets look at UFC 263 PPV Event vs Bellator 263 non PPV for the main event payout.
UFC 263 pay for the main event.
Isreal Adesanya $500,000 no win bonus def. Marvin Vettori $350,000
BELLATOR 263 pay for main event.
Paticio Pitbull $250,000 vs. A.J. McKee $150,000 - winner receives $1,000,000 win bonus. The winner of this event will take in double the amount Isreal Adesanya made for a PPV event.
UFC 263 pulled in $42,000,000 + million and total payout to all fighters on the card was $3,233,000 which is only 7.7% of total take. I will deduct $3,000,000 for promotion and other expenses the UFC made $35,767,000 million profit.
BELLATOR 263 will only pull in Gate $$$$ and total payout to fighters with only larger win bonuses added for the full fight total $2,191,000 million. Most likely this will be a 50/50 split in revenue/fighter pay.
Looking at the full picture UFC pays lower than 10% from its total take. BELLATOR pays close to 50% of its total take to its fighters.
So its the UFC that are not paying its fighters a fair wage.