Dana White: “We paid a guy $5 million for a fight before”
source | MMAMania.com
Today during his public Google+ Hangout chat, White was asked if an MMA fighter would ever potentially see the type of guaranteed purse Mayweather is receiving (in excess of 40 million) for a huge PPV event. He didn’t shy away from the question, calling upon nearby Lorenzo Fertitta to help give an accurate answer.
Here it is:
“We paid a guy $5 million for a fight before, [but] we didn’t start making money until 2007. That was six years ago. So boxing’s been around for a 100 years, they’ve been doing big events since way back when. Pretty amazing what we have done in short amount of time. I don’t think a lot of people look at that way and break it down for what it really is.”