{"id":607939,"date":"2026-04-16T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:19:08","slug":"ronda-rousey-reveals-mvp-mma-base-pay-is-four-times-higher-than-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607939\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey reveals MVP MMA base pay is four times higher than UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul\u2019s MVP and Ronda Rousey aren\u2019t just talking trash<\/a> about UFC\u2019s pay structure, they\u2019re countering it by paying their own athletes much better \u2026 even those at the very bottom of the card.<\/p>\n

MVP MMA 1 on May 16th<\/a> features Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano, Francis Ngannou vs. Philipe Lins, and Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry. All six fighters headlining in the \u2018triple header\u2019 are undoubtedly getting paid big bucks, but what about those further down the card? While MVP did a good job of stacking things, there\u2019s still four fights on the card with smaller names. According to Ronda Rousey, who is acting as co-promoter as well as headliner for the event, they\u2019re all gonna make at least $40,000 each.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that we raise the ceiling, but also that we raise the floor,\u201d Rousey said at the MVP MMA 1 press conference.<\/a> \u201cAnd one thing that is really important in this fight is the absolute minimum that anybody will walk away with \u2014 even if they don\u2019t have a big, long record and even if they lose \u2014 is $40K.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you fight three times in a year, that\u2019s much more than a living wage, and that\u2019s something the UFC cannot say.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UFC famously still pays fighters entering their organization $10,000 to show and $10,000 to win.<\/a> Even if you fight twice and win both over your first year in the UFC, that\u2019s $40,000 before taxes and expenses and gym \/ management fees. As Sean Strickland has said, you\u2019d make more working at Wal-Mart.<\/a> And that\u2019s how it\u2019s been locked in since 2015, when the entry level pay stopped going up every couple of years.<\/p>\n

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MVP MMA fighters will make at least $40,000 per fight. Many of them make much more, and several at the top of the card have said they\u2019re making more than they\u2019ve ever made<\/a> in their career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that everybody sitting here is getting the biggest payday of their career,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cAnd after this event, I hope we can raise that ceiling higher and higher and higher, until it is on par with the highest-level boxers, because that is where the holy grail for us is. This is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul\u2019s MVP and Ronda Rousey aren\u2019t just talking trash about UFC\u2019s pay structure, they\u2019re countering it by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,146728,638,65336,64389,1867,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-607939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-gina-carano","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-mma-fighters","14":"tag-mvp","15":"tag-ronda-rousey","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}