You Won’t Believe How Much Money The UFC Made In 2015

The UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta revealed the UFC’s massive earnings in 2015, but you won’t believe his disgusting comments about fighter pay…

As 2015 comes to an end, we have a great year of mixed martial arts action in the books, with still a little more to come. Once again the UFC remains on top of the competition, with the best fighters on the globe still opting to fight in the Octagon for the most part.

With the promotion’s global expansion has obviously came a higher demand, meaning many more events and also various new platforms to watch them through. Long gone are the days of forking out pay-per-view money for every UFC event.

So how much money did the UFC make in 2015? Here’s UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta to drop the bombshell:

As per his interview with CNN:

“We’ll generate about $600 million in revenue for the year 2015, which is a record for the company and it’s a fairly significant growth coming off 2014. The exciting part of the platform that we’ve built is that we’ve been able to embrace different tiers of revenue. We have our basic pay-per-view business, that is our biggest source of revenue.”

600 million dollars? That’s insane! So where else is the cash flowing in from?

“Then we have our media rights, which is really similar to rights that we sell to FOX for all of the programming we give them. And then we have embraced the over-the-top platforms, where we launched UFC Fight Pass, which is a subscription service of $9.99 per month where you can access the entire UFC library and we also put live exclusive UFC events from around the world on that format, as well as original programming. So we really have those three sources of revenue to generate, three ways to monetize our contacts.”

It really has been an incredible year for the UFC, despite all the terrible media the promotion has been made to endure.

So what about fighter pay?

You’ll be disgusted by Lorenzo Fertitta’s response when asked about fighter pay on page 2…