BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Gym Fees https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Ex-UFC welterweight Jon Fitch responds to Dana White’s fighter-pay comments https://www.badmma.com/ex-ufc-welterweight-jon-fitch-responds-to-dana-whites-fighter-pay-comments.html https://www.badmma.com/ex-ufc-welterweight-jon-fitch-responds-to-dana-whites-fighter-pay-comments.html#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:45:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ex-ufc-welterweight-jon-fitch-responds-to-dana-whites-fighter-pay-comments.html Welterweight Jon Fitch cut a video today to respond to UFC President Dana White’s angry rebuttal about his tenure with the industry-leader. Responding to White’s assertion that he made $302,000 in discretionary bonuses, Fitch added up his fight purses, saying he was paid a total of $1,022,000 for 18 bouts with the promotion and “about $300,000 in bonuses,” which he said brought his total payout to $1,322,000. “Sounds like a lot of money,” he said. “But let’s look at that a little bit closer. Out of the 18 fights in that fight purse, I paid 20 percent of that to management and the gym. So if you take that number, divide it by seven-and-a-half years, I was making roughly $176,000 a year before management and gym fees.” The onetime welterweight title challenger, who in January signed with the upstart World Series of Fighting promotion after his high-profile UFC release, said he was in the “medium to high pay grade,” but added, “most fighters didn’t make as much money as I did.” Fitch’s take-home figure also leaves out taxes (UFC fighters are paid as independent contractors)

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Ex-UFC welterweight Jon Fitch responds to Dana White’s fighter-pay comments – MMA Junkie

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