Media Sean Offered "Less Than 200k/200k" Declined Paulo Costa - UPDATE: Sean's Pay RESOLVED, Accepts Paulo Costa

No?

The UFC pays out less than 15% of revenue to fighter pay and that includes travel, insurance, per diem, even the stupid Performance Institute.

Fans who weirdly boot lick the UFC don't think how many awesome fights we're missing because they are insanely cheap. Sean is a legit headliner, former world champion who dethroned one of the biggest names in the sport, and he's getting less than 200k to show.

That is such bad pay at this level its hard to describe to people who don't understand revenues. Fighter pay is one of their only actual COGS, its their product. The margins the UFC makes is astonishing and its by paying these guys peanuts.
Matt Serra separated GSP's consciousness from this timeline and didn't get paid shit.

UFC is scams bro
 
Minimum NHL salary is 750k. (82 players make that)

NHL revenue in 2023: 6 Million.

UFC Revenue in 2023: 1 Million.


750k/6 = $125,000. so $125k for 24 weeks worth of work in the UFC (Fight 3 times) is pretty close to what UFC fighters starting out are making.

Whole lotta Junior hockey players making less than $60k to play hockey in the juniors leagues.

Difference is the NHL has a player Association who has a seat at the table.

Until the fighters want to get serious they'll continue to get screwed just like most athletes in other sports did until there athletes took a stand.
 
Is he a star? Dont confuse being a FORMER champion, with being a Star, Demetrious Johnson holds the record for successful title defenses in the UFC, was he a star? No, Strickland isnt one either, only cause he fights at MW and DJ at FLW, neither guy was a star, Strickland has a astonishing 0 defenses record...was a huge underdog, and lost the belt on his following fight, says dumb/cringe/weird shit often, but not a star, the UFC lowballing everyone with no belt, and sometimes even with a belt is a different topic.
He is a star, he’s one of the top 3 most popular fighters right now
 
Facts! He is also forgetting about the free Monster energy drink he would get if he wins.

The can is empty though but he does get to recycle the can for 50 cent


edit: Just got back from Dana, he needs to return the can immediately to the staff upon leaving the octagon
 
You can't pretend things didn't happen. It wasn't 30-27. It was 29-28 and the only one close to being finished was Whittaker. There's no need to do any mental gymnastics.

Most people who watched that fight and aren't doing any mental gymnastics to pretend things that happened didn't happen rate Whittaker and Costa as better than they did prior to that fight.

Whittaker showed that he's still a championship level fighter and Costa showed he's not far behind that.
No mental gymnastics here. Like myself, one of the judges scored it 30-27 as well. http://ufcstats.com/fight-details/01432891260084a4

Rob hit him with a third more strikes and wasn't close to being finished. He got it with the headkick, was stunned but didn't drop and immediately went back to throwing punches at the end of the round.

People thought Costa's stock went up because he actually made it to the cage... and made weight for a change. It really as been a long time since that happened.
 
No mental gymnastics here. Like myself, one of the judges scored it 30-27 as well. http://ufcstats.com/fight-details/01432891260084a4

Rob hit him with a third more strikes and wasn't close to being finished. He got it with the headkick, was stunned but didn't drop and immediately went back to throwing punches at the end of the round.

People thought Costa's stock went up because he actually made it to the cage... and made weight for a change. It really as been a long time since that happened.
You're still going with the minority opinion as if it's the majority that's mental gymnastics dude. Also using fight metric isn't a good way to judge fights because it treats all significant strikes as if they are equal which they are very clearly not and the judging criteria has been changed so that people understand that damage is way more important than more volume. If you look up the media scorecards for that fight almost all of them are 29-28.

Hitting someone with a third more strikes is irrelevant when you take more damage and you get wobbled, that couple second sequence did more damage than all those extra strikes from Whitaker did.
 
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You're still going with the minority opinion as if it's the majority that's mental gymnastics dude. Also using fight metric isn't a good way to judge fights because it treats all significant strikes as if they are equal which they are very clearly not and the judging criteria has been changed so that people understand that damage is way more important than more volume. If you look up the media scorecards for that fight almost most of them are 29-28.

Hitting someone with a third more strikes is irrelevant when you take more damage and you get wobbled, that couple second sequence did more damage than all those extra strikes from Whitaker did.
So, because not everyone scores a round the same, it's "mental gymnastics"? OK, sure thing dude... I guess that other judge was performing them as well :rolleyes:

He didn't even get knocked down and if you rewatch the sequence, Rob was back throwing punches a couple of seconds later. He also, easily outlanded Costa for the rest of the round.
 
So, because not everyone scores a round the same, it's "mental gymnastics"? OK, sure thing dude... I guess that other judge was performing them as well :rolleyes:

He didn't even get knocked down and if you rewatch the sequence, Rob was back throwing punches a couple of seconds later. He also, easily outlanded Costa for the rest of the round.

Literally only one media member scored it 30-27, you suck at scoring fights and don't understand the scoring criteria. Work on that and shut the fuck up about who landed more volume in round 1, they literally changed the judging criteria to prevent people from scoring volume over damage and near finishes.

Landing more strikes is irrelevant when he took more damage and was the only one that was close to being finished in round 1.
 
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Literally only one media member scored it 30-27, you suck at scoring fights and don't understand the scoring criteria. Work on that and shut the fuck up about who landed more volume in round 1, they literally changed the judging criteria to prevent people from scoring volume over damage and near finishes.

Landing more strikes is irrelevant when he took more damage and was the only one that was close to being finished in round 1.
I guess an athletic commission appointed judge "sucks at scoring fights" as well. No idea why you're so butthurt about this but get the fuck over yourself and stop insulting people just because they disagree with your scoring of around... you know, despite them scoring it the same as one of the professional judges assigned to the fight, as it makes you look like a giant dickhead.

How the fuck was he remotely close to being finished when he wasn't even knocked down and was throwing strikes back at Costa a couple of seconds later.

NoBias huh? Is that meant to be irony?
 
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When fighters want to fight, fights get booked. This is a perfect example.
Claiming not getting fights or the UFC not letting them fight is bs.
 
Risk v reward. If ufc guarantees a title shot from a good win then a sweetener. But to take a fight risk damage and delay for a title chance, is not worth rushing. Sean convincingly defeats IZzy , while DDP eels out a very close decision. Sean also a draw. Others have sat out in lesser positions.
 
Three or five rounds? I favor Strickland either way but he's a big favorite in a five rounder IMO.
 
I like that posters are always swinging at each other when it’s a Costa thread. Some good exchanges in this one, too. Slip ’n rip did he there, Joe!

I got Costa beating Strickland’s ass, by the way. Come at me, brethren!
 
Minimum NHL salary is 750k. (82 players make that)

NHL revenue in 2023: 6 Million.

UFC Revenue in 2023: 1 Million.


750k/6 = $125,000. so $125k for 24 weeks worth of work in the UFC (Fight 3 times) is pretty close to what UFC fighters starting out are making.

Whole lotta Junior hockey players making less than $60k to play hockey in the juniors leagues.
UFC dying confirmed..
 
Difference is the NHL has a player Association who has a seat at the table.

Until the fighters want to get serious they'll continue to get screwed just like most athletes in other sports did until there athletes took a stand.
It's going to take a martyr(or a couple) before anything could get going probably. Like When Ted Lindsay started the whole lobbying for players to get together to come to the table against the owners and NHL. And Ted got ran out of town as a player for it. So far nobody active has been willing to go down on the grenade(nor should any one person be expected to as it's likely self career suicide) to really get the building blocks in place for a union. But unfortunately it usually takes a selfless person or a couple who know the consequences and accept them to eat that blow before everyone gets galvanized to come in behind them with support of it. Some have tried ish. But immediately backed down when the UFC legal team came stomping. Like when cowboy and those involved with Bjorn Rebney all quietly never mentioned the "Mixed Martial Arts Athletic Association" ever again after appearing in that photo with Bjorn.
 
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