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Originally Posted by Relentless
Elite boxers make a ton more than elite MMA fighters, but the average boxer is lucky to make a few hundred bucks per fight.
Also keep in mind career length and damage taken. MMA fights are a few rounds and end almost immediately when a fighter is hurt. Lots of scrapes and marks to be sure but nowhere near the long term brain injury that many boxers face after a dozen 12 round fights getting hit in the head while semiconscious on their feet.
Walking away talking like Chuck Liddell instead of mumbling like Ali is definitely worth something as well.
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That is one of the big ones. In the UFC a guy can have 4-5 fights and find himself fighting for the championship. If he wins he is now making the bigger money. In boxing you usually have to have 20+ fights before you can fight for a championship so you can take some serious blows to the head and do a lot of damage to yourself just to get into a position to fight for a title.