What Would 30% Look Like?

In today's great interview with Tito Ortiz over at MMA Mania, Tito states that he thinks fighters salaries should total about 30-40% of the revenue made by UFC on each major show.  Using UFC 84, we can predict what this pay scale might look like. First, I am going to assume the show did 600,000 buys.  There are indications that it may be slightly higher or lower than this, so we'll just assume this even number.  My impression is that they get about $22 per buy, while the rest goes to the cable companies, so this brings us to $13,200,000 in PPV revenue.  The gate was $5,100,000, and if you add in the merchandise sales and other ways they made money on this show in terms of online webcast sales, worldwide buys, and more, you can probably round this up to about $19,000,000. more...