Rousey had spoken passionately about that figure while taking a dig at her former employer<\/a> at the launch press conference for MVP MMA.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that we raise the ceiling, but also raise the floor,” said Rousey, who co-promoted the card alongside MVP.<\/p>\n
Disclosed purses for Rousey vs Carano card<\/p>\n
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Ronda Rousey, $2.2 million
Gina Carano, $1.05 million
Nate Diaz, $500,000
Mike Perry, $400,000
Francis Ngannou, $1.5 million
Philipe Lins, $100,000
Salahdine Parnasse, $70,000
Kenneth Cross, $50,000
Junior Dos Santos, $80,000
Robelis Despaigne, $50,000
Namo Fazil, $40,000
Jake Babian, $40,000
Adriano Moraes, $80,000
Phumi Nkuta, $60,000
Jason Jackson, $110,000
Jeff Creighton, $50,000
David Mgoyan, $50,000
Albert Morales, $40,000
Aline Pereira, $40,000
Jade Masson-Wong, $40,000
Chris Avila, $50,000
Brandon Jenkins, $40,000<\/p>\n
“One thing that I\u2019m really proud of on this card is that the absolute minimum anybody will walk away with, even if they don\u2019t have a big, long record, and even if they lose, it\u2019s $40,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you fight 3 times a year, that is much more than a living wage.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s something the UFC cannot say, and I hope that after this event, we can continue to raise that ceiling higher and higher until it is on par with the highest-level boxers…<\/p>\n
\u201cIt used to be that the UFC was the best place that you could come in combat sports to make a living and be paid fairly. <\/p>\n
“Now, it\u2019s one of the worst places to go…<\/p>\n
“This company just got $7.7 billion! There is no reason why they can\u2019t afford to pay their athletes at least a living wage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano both cleared seven figures for their super fight on Saturday night. 39-year-old Rousey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,29141,90605,2222,392,21750,201379,17840,102408,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-gina-carano","tag-mma-news","tag-money","tag-netflix","tag-pay","tag-payout","tag-purse","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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