In a conversation with Charlie Mack, former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson noted that UFC fighters don't receive the money that top-flight boxers do despite mixed martial arts receiving higher ratings:
UFC light heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones, who has voiced his concerns over fighters' pay (including his own), provided the following response to Tyson.
In the video, Tyson said, "UFC is more popular than boxing, right? Got higher ratings, right? Right? But a UFC [fighter] will never be richer than a first-class fighter."
The 53-year-old noted that Conor McGregor made $100 million to fight Floyd Mayweather but that the former two-division world champion wouldn't get nearly that amount if he fought UFC light heavyweight title holder Jon Jones.