LAS VEGAS – For many MMA fans, it has become a post-UFC-event tradition: Wait for
the night’s salaries to be made public and then dissect them like some
high-school biology project.
But of course, there’s always that little asterisk at the bottom of our
reports. The salaries, while reflective of each fighter’s contract,
don’t include the UFC’s famed “discretionary bonuses.”
The UFC’s procedure of compensating fighters through non-contracted
payments often has drawn the ire of critics who assume the promotion
must be doing something sinister with the procedure. Not so, said UFC
president Dana White.