Joanna Jedrzejczyk försvarar UFCs lönesystem

UFC har fått mycket kritik för att fighters inte får tillräckligt bra betalt, men en som försvarar UFC i denna fråga är stråviktsmästarinnan Joanna Jedrzejcyk (11-0).

Jedrzejczyk förklarar att UFC behandlar alla sina fighters bra och att det finns en jämställdhet i lönerna mellan kvinnliga och manliga fighters.

”I hear people say Dana [White, the UFC president] and Lorenzo [Fertitta, its CEO] should pay the fighters better. But they don’t know what they’re talking about. They really take good care of us. All of us, you know? They [the fans] don’t know anything about what is really going on. There are so many opportunities for all of the fighters. This is so different. You do your job and they’ll take care of you. In Muay Thai, the female fighters didn’t earn the same kind of money as [the men] despite doing the same job. But in UFC, all of us can earn good money, men and women. If you give 100 percent to the UFC, you’ll get 200 percent back.”

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