Retired MMA legend Georges St-Pierre says the UFC’s new broadcast take care of Paramount might be “horrible” for fighters.

The UFC introduced on Monday it had signed a seven-year take care of Paramount which might convey most pay-per-views to an finish within the US – with occasions showing on Paramount’s streaming service or on CBS TV community.

The deal is reportedly price greater than £700m a yr, or £5.7bn in whole, an unbelievable improve from the £370m five-year deal the UFC had with ESPN beforehand.

St-Pierre, a two-weight UFC champion and an all-time nice, questioned the place the deal leaves fighters – particularly those that negotiated a lower of pay-per-view gross sales.

“It might be good for the UFC, as a promoter, [but] horrible for the fighters as a result of after I was competing I used to be in a position to have an incredible argument to barter on my contract,” St-Pierre instructed Covers.

“I might inform the UFC, ‘hey, if you need me to do all of the promotion, I wish to turn out to be a companion. I desire a piece of the pie to barter part of the pay-per-view income’.

“As a result of if I am doing all of the promotion, I am serving to you, however it is advisable assist me. It’s essential to make me a companion.

“So it is likely to be a foul factor for the fighters in a manner that they’ve much less leverage [to negotiate more money].”

Jake Paul, who has publicly feuded with UFC president Dana White over fighter pay since swapping YouTube for boxing, stated athletes now have a “clear image” of what the UFC’s income is.

“No extra PPV excuses. Get your price girls and boys,” he added.

Talking about fighter pay, White would not be drawn into an in depth dialogue on Tuesday.

“The fighters are going to get tons of promotion,” White stated.

“I am not going to have any feedback on that but (fighter pay) as a result of we have nonetheless bought to get collectively and determine these items out. It is August, we now have until January.

“The low hanging fruit which is straightforward to reply, bonuses are clearly going up.”

Combat bonuses are at present capped at £37,000.

The largest stars like Ronda Rousey, St-Pierre and Jon Jones had been usually given ‘PPV factors’ on high of their combat purse, permitting them to take a lower of the general gross sales from any combat night time they had been concerned with.