The article gives a rundown of all of GSPs revenue streams including salary, PPV and sponsorships. The buy rate was a reported , PPV buys.

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He may have received another lump sum bonus, but once again, this seems like a hefty amount of money to give GSP. As Dana White told and retold reporters on Saturday night, GSP is rich. His PPV rate may not be a flat rate. That gives him every incentive to promote his ass off for those bigger cuts. Revenue must be from other sources. So something is not right. Write an article about pay for dealers at Station Casinos… I heard its like a YEAR plus tips and no benefits.

I have no problem accepting the idea that Silva and GSP, the two top guys, get per buy.

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But we also have to remember that we only know of guys who really had no leverage. Overeem was coming from very lo0w pay in SF. I was actually surprised the UFC even gave him a PPV cut.

He had no leverage and no one was bidding against them.

Then we have Eddie Alverez who was in the same boat but brought less to the table. That was the only fighter with leverage and star power and value to the UFC.

Salaries have went up drastically since then. Also Couture was coming off of loses when he signed that contract. Skip ahead 6 years with a champion who is top 2 MMA fighter of all time and on a long streak who sales.

When you consider there has never even been a hold out of even any discussion about contract issues with GSP. I cant even remember hearing about him ever being on a last fight of a contract.

This shows the UFC is taking care of him to the point GSP has never really had to play hardball. Brandon rios would be getting 4million against pacman…..

And good lord, MMA IS NOT BOXING. They would LOVE to be able to pay their top fighters UFC money if they could get away with it. No such competition exists in the MMA space; there is a 1 and a DISTANT 2 in terms of pay. Boxing is also subject to the Ali Act. There is nothing comparable when it comes to MMA. The math works out to an average 1. Think about that, and try to make a logical assumption as Jason has.

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I believe Alvarez was offered the PPV buyrate bonus IF he got onto PPV. You can use these tags: Boxers where making that in the 80s. So yeah, the 2.