Dana White: “(UFC since 2006) has made 40-something millionaires”

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Boxing has long been known to give the biggest purses to their top stars from PPV revenue. Now, MMA is beginning to grow, but UFC President Dana White is confident in stating that UFC is on the rise and while there’s no reason to think that purses won’t continue to grow along with it.

At the UFC 138 press conference, White talked a bit about the evolution of the mixed martial artists purses and how they’ve been able to accomplish so much in only 5 years.

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