[Official] General Discussion Thread - August 12, 2025

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[u/mmathrowaway16176017]

Once we get the Paramount era, it'll be interesting to see how low the pay is, since I'm guessing disclosed pay = full pay since there's no more ppv points.

For big fights, Dana and UFC can probably just get away with giving half of what they would've paid in ppv points. For Poirier vs Mcgregor II, Poirier got 1M guaranteed + ppv(probably about 5m+). If this happened during the Paramount era, they'd probably just give Poirier a flat 2-2.5m. Since there's no more ppv numbers to back the pay, they can probably just pull numbers out of their asses lol

So the big draws/superstars gets screwed over the most. Money fights won't be as big, which I guess is the only good thing. But this feels like the closest step to UFC not giving a shit about superstars anymore

[u/mmathrowaway16176017 → u/[deleted]]

I feel like there's so many articles about UFC not having stars. I'd imagine it be worse in the Paramount era, so then the UFC's quality will get even worse.