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UFC star Paige VanZant said OnlyFans allows her to make 'life-changing money'

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 284 points 2 years ago
[-] Cato_the_Posadist@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago

UFC pays like shit for all but the top talent.

Tbf, she was never at risk of being considered that so it doesn’t say that much about the pay scale vs OF.

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago

And people wonder why all these teachers are ending up on onlyfans

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

It's not like the profession has been treating them with any more respect anyway.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

One of the only major sports without a union

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

I always say the NFL is the worst sport for athletes because their bodies get destroyed in return for relatively little money (at least for everybody except the superstars), but that's because I always forget about the UFC.

[-] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Still though a practice squad player in the NFL is clearing $500k+ a season. So it's at least a decent amount of money. Is it worth the future health problems with no pension? Not my decision, but at least it is an amount of money where there is a decision to be made.

MMA, Boxing, WWE... Haha go fuck yourself.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Still though a practice squad player in the NFL is clearing $500k+ a season.

It seems practice squad players actually make a minimum of $12K per week or $216K per season. Still not that bad compared to conventional jobs, but it's not like you can have a 40-year career doing that.

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

And with the effects on long term brain health they have been unraveling in the past few years its a no dawg from me thanks. Unfortunately I've already gone through my sports playing days so it was already a yeah dawg.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure they have a pension if you make it like 3 years iirc

[-] David_Eight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Don't most sports league have unions? At least all major sports in the USA have player unions.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, in the USA all the main ones do. Idk about less popular ones like lacrosse or even MLS though

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

I don’t think so. If it was a male UFC fighter, he’d stand no chance of making as much money as her on a site like OnlyFans. And the UFC is pretty good about equal pay based on gender.

No, this is simply the newest iteration of one of the oldest truths in history: attractive women can milk desperate men for a king’s ransom any day of the week.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

All work places are good about equal pay based on gender because they have to in the USA.

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Women and men are in different leagues and often hired by different organizers. The same is true with people hired in all forms of entertainment. Thier skill and demand judge thier wages.

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago

And probably a bit about UFC fans, too

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