Looks like a good job to me. Half the fights are less than 10 minutes work and it seems like you can just quit fighting if you aren’t having fun.
Seems like the perfect job for a lazy guy over 50.
So what other job would be as appealing.
Here’s ten reasons not to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzkhG4JxieQ
I see. Short work days but quite a bit of stress. Like being a short order cook doing breakfast, but with crippling.
IMHO, all MMA, UFC, NHB etc. fighters all just brawlers looking for an excuse to go and legally try to kick someone’s butt. None of them know how to kick properly, and all of the fights end up on the ground with the two guys trying to pummel each other. Plus, and I’m not an expert, but it seems to me that by abusing their bodies like this now, they will all have all sorts of joint and arthritis problems when they are not too much older (mid 30’s perhaps).
To me that makes it not worth it.
HAHHAAA I suggest you goto your local Brazilian JJ franchise and get a two class package. You can probably borrow/rent the gear you need. You’ll need to bring a friend to drive you home though…
I dare you to tell that to Anderson Silva or Lyoto Machida.
Plus, how do you define properly?
Your humble opinion could not be more wrong. That was true of maybe half the fighters at UFC 1, but the sport has changed radically over 2 decades.
There’s an old saying in pro football: “They pay me to practice, I play the games for free.” This applies at least equally to MMA, if not more so; the practice schedule is months upon months of day in, day out, long, grueling, exhausting work, and completely devoid of any creature comforts. Fighters will be the first to tell you that the actual fighting part of it is fun, but the fight itself is .001% of the work involved.
What they said. You would be absofreakingloutley astonished at how hard a professional UFC level fighter can kick.
How many UFC fighters are NCAA champion or better wrestlers? A lot. Not really brawlers.
You don’t mind being owned by the Hells Angels, do you?
According to Penny Arcade the matches last about 20 minutes, and don’t seem much fun:
The Ball Region plus Tycho’s commentary (Relatively safe for work, as Penny Arcade goes.)
If I were you, I’d go for Lucha Libre. They have snazzier outfits.
I have seen their contracts.
At least the ones I saw a few years ago had the stipulation that if you lost 3 times, your contract could/would be terminated.
That might have changed since then - but they didn’t mess around. Either you were really good and won a lot, or you were history!
The pressure was on for those guys and with the money they were talking about, it was no joke.
Can I get a clue here please?
I know people involved in UFC and they’re pretty much in bed together, to the point where licenses and the like are being denied for one reason (organized criminals are in charge and profiting) while the public is told it’s due to the violent nature of the sport or zoning laws or whatever. A photographer friend regularly goes to events and he’s got to shoot around the full-patch Hells (and their ‘girlfriends’) who consistently take up the first rows.
But keep in mind I’ve got no clue about boxing or any other sports of a similar nature, so for all I know this is par for the course and I’m hopelessly naive.
ETA It may also vary from league to league, I guess.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of coin these guys pull down? With relatively few exceptions, I suspect it isn’t all that much.
Found this bit of info on an MMA forum.
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Clearly, the top UFC fighters don’t make nearly the amount that the top boxers make. But there is an incorrect perception that the other UFC fighters are being underpaid compared to boxers of the same level as well as fighters in the mixed martial arts community.
So I called the Nevada Athletic Commission and got the payment verification sheets for the last two major boxing shows (Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe on April 19 and Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez on March 15) as well as for the last major UFC show in the state, UFC 81 on Feb. 2.
According to state records, Hopkins and Calzaghe were each paid $3 million for their work. The next highest-paid fighter on that card was Audley Harrison, who made $20,000. There were nine fighters who made $5,000 or less, including two men, Marcos Mendias and Jermell Charlo, who made but $1,500.
Pacquiao made $3 million and Marquez $1 million for their epic rematch, but there were five fighters of the 14 on that show who made $3,500 or less.
At the UFC show, the lowest base pay for any of the 18 fighters on the card was the $4,000 that Kyle Bradley made.
The UFC also paid out $60,000 bonuses that night for knockout of the night, submission of the night and fight of the night. Plus, most of the fighters had bonuses for winning, so the opportunity was there for them to double their pay, which was not for the boxers.
And several agents, speaking on the condition of anonymity, have said the UFC occasionally pays its fighters bonuses it chooses not to announce to the public. These bonuses apparently go to fighters who perform superbly in a big fight.
Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre reportedly received a $500,000 bonus and a Hummer when he knocked out Matt Hughes at UFC 65 in Sacramento, Calif.
Additionally, fighting in the UFC makes an athlete significantly more attractive to a sponsor. Frank Mir made $85,000 for the logos he wore into the cage for his fight with Brock Lesnar that night. Had he been fighting in another organization, there’s zero chance he would have earned half that in sponsorship money and he likely wouldn’t have gotten 20 percent as much.
So Mir that night earned a base pay of $40,000, a win bonus of another $40,000, a submission of the night bonus of $60,000 and then hauled in $85,000 in sponsorship dollars.
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A high school friend of mine went into MMA…but today he posted this on Facebook: “Unrepairable c7…I will never fight again, maybe never have my right arm work correctly again”
So, there’s that.