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Keeping this in consideration, which pays more boxing or UFC?

The answer is boxing. For the amount of times you fight for the belt in UFC, you don't get paid as much as you think they would. Boxing pays it's fighters more when it comes to pay per view fights. There are some fighters not near the popularity as McGregor but are getting paid just as much as he is and sometimes more.

Likewise, why do boxers get paid more than MMA fighters? Gennady Golovkin's promoter Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1) The top boxers make more money than MMA fighters because they participate in upside for ticket sales and PPV, for example. But UFC fighter's purses have increased and we see fighters like Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor and Jon Jones making very good purses now.”

Correspondingly, does MMA or boxing make more money?

The mean average is the median average of what most boxers earn, and the median average for a boxer was $3,250 in 2015. The mean average for the mixed martial arts or MMA was $21,714. This shows that the median average for MMA fighters is slightly lower than the boxers.

Is boxing better than MMA?

The real fight is in the cage with MMA warriors. To the untrained eye, mixed martial arts looks like desperate street fight. Leagues like the UFC have consistently churned out better fight cards from the bottom up than boxing does nowadays. The best combat sport is MMA and it's not even close.