Do any UFC fighters do make a wish?

Dana White has at least some relationship with Make-A-Wish: UFC's Dana White Visits Make-A-Wish. And there's also this: "What happened was, I got a phone call from a person in the UFC, someone from the Make-A-Wish Foundation reached out to them," [Conor] McGregor told TSN Wednesday. read more

Over the previous three years, from 2013 through 2015, (I choose a three year period to make it easier to collect purse information from fighters and for conformity used it for reported payouts as well) the UFC held 130 events for which the athletic commission in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington released the purse information for 44 of them. read more

Fighters who have between one and five fights in the UFC will make just $2,500 per fight under the tiered system. Fighters with six to 10 UFC bouts will make $5,000; 11 to 15 will get fighters $10,000; 16 to 20 fights earns $15,000; and 21 bouts and up gets a fighter $20,000. Title challengers will make $30,000 and champions will pull in $40,000. read more