Just checked the payouts and didn't realize they were making that much these days! McGregor $1 Mil and Holm $500k for the fight alone and they didn't even win. Yeah, guaranteed purse for the fight, but I recall once upon a time I thought a title event payout was in the $100-200k range and that was with the win bonus (double the guarantee purse). I want to say that when GSP fought BJPenn a while back that it was big news that the payout broke $300k, but that was a while ago and fuzzy memory. Haha.
Try looking at the purses for the prelims and other events. The purses are tiny and some of those guys, even if they win and get a total purse of day $50-100k, I have to believe that the fighter ends up with a small fraction of that. On top of that, the fighter can get a medical suspension and not be allowed to fight for months. I'm not saying that I feel bad for them, but sort of puts things in perspective of the range of stuff the fighters have to go through.
A college classmate runs a website that covers boxing, MMA and other similar events and you get a real feel for the highs and lows of the "fight game".
I'm wondering if Conor is still going to run his mouth about fighting Mayweather.
Of course!

I would think it would be entertaining to let both put their money where their mouths are. . .