MMA as a means to get rich? Ninety percent of guys are more in the negative than in the plus, Martinek said

Many fans think that making a living in MMA is easy and fighters are often millionaires. However, the opposite is true, making a living in this sport is really difficult due to the financial demands. What did former Octagon champion Michal Martinek have to say about it?

MMA continues to grow in popularity, allowing fighters to earn more than in the past. But does that mean they have to worry about money? No.

In fact, the training of an MMA fighter is so financially demanding that it’s hard to make a living from the sport itself. Or rather, only about a dozen people can do it in domestic waters.

The rest of them have to swing, get cooperation on social networks, or simply make money in other ways. This has now been confirmed by Michal Martínek, who until recently wrestled under the ACA banner.

“If the fans knew that ninety percent of the guys are more in the minus than in the plus, there probably wouldn’t be so many haters. People think the guys are making hundreds of thousands, but they’re making maybe two thousand on the card,” he said in an interview with Nova.

“For the last four years I’ve been able to operate financially purely from matches. But I’ve been on the scene for twelve years and if I didn’t have any backdoor, I wouldn’t be able to make it, or at most I’d be eating rolls with butter. You either make it or you don’t. And if not, he must have a side income,” he added.

Martinek now fights in KSW, where he won his first fight against Filip Stawowy of Poland. He now has a 10:3 record at the age of thirty-two.

Source: Nova