YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has again hit out at the UFC’s pay structure after alleging online that many of Dana White’s stable of fighters don’t make as much money as the UFC Octagon girls.
Paul, who defeated ex-UFC fighter Ben Askren by first-round knockout last month, has become something of an unlikely voice in the fighter pay debate in which White becomes occasionally embroiled.
The internet star has boasted that Askren’s disclosed payout of $500,000 for less than a full round of boxing eclipsed any single check he was cut during his UFC tenure – a claim Askren subsequently agreed with – and has again raised the topic of fighter pay.
Critics, among whom Paul now finds himself, have said that the UFC pays its top stars well but for every Conor McGregor or Khabib Nurmagomedov, there are dozens of lesser known fighters competing for fractions of the top stars’ payouts.
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