Corey Anderson says "Bellator gave him the life" after leaving the UFC: "I've made more money in two fights [in Bellator] than I did in my whole career in the UFC."

Corey Anderson says “Bellator gave him the life” after leaving the UFC: “I’ve made extra money in two fights [in Bellator] than I did in my entire profession within the UFC.”

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Corey Anderson says “Bellator gave him the life” after leaving the UFC: “I’ve made extra money in two fights [in Bellator] than I did in my entire profession within the UFC.”



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24 thoughts on “Corey Anderson says “Bellator gave him the life” after leaving the UFC: “I’ve made extra money in two fights [in Bellator] than I did in my entire profession within the UFC.””

  1. UFC taking away sponsorships from the fighters was such a dirtbag move while plastering every inch of the octagon with their own advertising. You’d think they would at least allow fighters to have a single patch on their shorts for one sponsor but no.

  2. MMA community- ‘UFC pays their fighters like shit!’

    UFC fighters – ‘UFC pays us like shit!’

    Countless UFC fighters that moved to Bellator ‘Bellator is paying me more money!’

    MMA community- ‘**HE LYIN!**’

  3. All I think of when I hear Corey Anderson is the time Jon Jones did a meet and greet at a kids theme park near my house and Corey Anderson showed up to talk shit

  4. See I am glad he is getting paid so much more. I wonder how much the little guys in bellator get. I am happy bellator is paying these mid/high range guys more though.

  5. People almost always: The UFC sucks and doesn’t pay fighters enough.

    People almost any time any other promotion challenges the UFC: Why even try? The UFC is the best. Look at these bums.

  6. This kinda feels like when I was working for a big gaming company and thought I was making great money and then found out smaller studios were paying almost double for the same talent

    No one knows who I work for now but their money is just as green and there’s way more of it

  9. I think we’re gnna start seeing a new type of career path in mma. Try to make it in ufc, build a brand, move on to other promotions to make a killing. You already seen it with bader, Anderson, pvz. You might have guys like o malley do it once they realize they’re not upper echelon fighters they just have a good following.

  12. Good for Corey. More fighters should be knocking on Bellator’s door for this reason. Force the cheap skates at the UFC to pay more. If the UFC athletes don’t want to form a union or an affiliation at least do this.

  16. I find it very, very hard to believe he made more in two fights (two years) than he did in fifteen fights with two bonuses (6 years) with the UFC.

    In one fight in 2018 that he won he got $130,000 ($65,000 win bonus).

    Edit: Looks like after winning TUF he was on 15/15, then he went up to 29/29, after some losses 20/20, two years later 65/65. Throw in some losses and yeah… it is actually believable.

    Edit: I added the “edit” part 3 minutes after making my initial comment – I did do my research, calm down.

  17. While he isn’t generally the best example, Schaub stopped when he was not allowed to use his sponsors. Considering how much that man loves $ (and the examples of pay losses he provided) I can see mid level fighters with sponsors making much more then their ufc counterparts (mid level)

  20. Bellator can pay their top guys more per fight but it doesn’t somehow mean they’re a *better* organization when it comes to fighter pay. They’re at least on par with the UFC when it comes to shit pay.

    Their cards are stacked with low-level pros who earn dimes compared to the lower level fighters on a UFC card. Bellator’s total pay is a lot less which allows them to pay their big names more and invest more in marketing themselves as a competitor to the UFC.

    Another issue, and I’m sad I don’t have the source on this, is that their highest paid guys don’t have the opportunity to fight as often. I forget which fighter it was, but they had complaints that while they were being paid quite well, they weren’t getting fights when they actually wanted to fight. If you’re paying a fighter $200K for 3 fights per year, is that *really* better than being paid $250K to fight twice a year and no more than that?

    Bellator budgets differently and pays their top stars more because that’s all they’ve got. They don’t really produce, nor do they invest in producing, new talent.

  21. He left as a valued free agent after fighting through a TUF contract and resigning … I’d like to see the pay stubs to prove it, because I think it’d be more damning that way

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