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Jorge Masvidal hopes more people bring attention to fighter pay ‘because I think it’s messed up’
https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/9/...-to-fighter-pay-because-i-think-its-messed-up
Jorge Masvidal said he was “leading the charge” for better fighter pay in the UFC. But these days, he’s just not quite sure how 600-some independent contractors get together to make that happen...“Fighters are very individual creatures,” Masvidal said recently on The MMA Hour. “We’d have to come together under a roof, or something like that, and have each other’s best interests at heart, so we could sit down with everybody together. And that, in itself, is a problem.”
Masvidal has said his mission is to get fighters their fair share of the revenue produced by their work in the octagon. According to court documents brought to in an anti-trust case against the UFC, the promotion expects to pay no more than 20 percent of that revenue to the fighters. “Gamebred” cited a recent Twitter graphic that put it at 16 percent, the share that went to fighters in 2012, according to internal projections made public through the lawsuit.
Masvidal believes things will change one day...he’s not sure what will be the catalyst.
The catalyst will be when it starts trickling down, Jorge. Just be patient.