In 2019, Jorge Masvidal became a superstar thanks to the victory over Ben Askren and Nate Diaz. Because of this, Jorge Masvidal was chosen to the upper station with Kamaru Usman in an event that he had only 6 days to prepare.
Masvidal said that at this event, if he did not proactively require an increase in remuneration, he would not have been raised by UFC.
“I tell you this, if I nodded to the original UFC agreement, the amount I received from 1.3 million to buy PPV would be very meager,” Masvidal shared with Yahoo Sports in a recent interview.
“This number is not fair. I said this not only for me but for all the boxers who are about to receive PPV commission … The number that everyone receives is not as much as people think.”
Therefore, Jorge Masvidal believes that the structure of UFC's remuneration and salary division needs to change.
“UFC must open new doors, they have to start rewarding more fighters with high Pay-Perra,” the American boxer said.
“UFC always says, 'You guys look at the undercard boxing boxing boxing (small matches that open the event night), their remuneration is far behind the OpenCard boxers (the main matches of the event night) of that UFC.'
“Yeah, okay, understand. Boxing's undercard is far behind UFC's OpenCard. But the question here is when you have reached the peak of the MMA world, comparing you with the low -level boxers of Boxing is very unreasonable,” Masvidal said.
So far, the remuneration of UFC boxers has always been a controversial issue. Except for the name that is favored as Conor McGregor, most UFC boxers are difficult to reach millions of dollars for each match.
Another remarkable thing is that although from 2007, although the remuneration of the fighters has increased, in fact, what they have received compared to the tournament has decreased. According to the evidence that the Vietnamese -born boxer Le Cung Le recorded, in 2007, the boxers received 26% of the company's revenue. Meanwhile in 2020, they only receive 20% of the company's revenue.