UFC Fan Questions: McGregor, Fighter Pay & Comebacks
The Big Brown Breakdown
Thiccc Boy Studios | PodcastOne
4.0 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Schaub Show, Brendan Schaub answers fan-submitted questions covering the biggest topics in the UFC and MMA right now.
Schaub breaks down the ongoing debate around UFC fighter pay vs boxing, and explains why organizations like Zuffa Boxing won’t mix with MMA fighters anytime soon. He also answers questions about Conor McGregor, potential comeback fights, and whether top stars should leave the UFC to make more money elsewhere.
Brendan dives into the evolution of MMA, including why jiu-jitsu isn’t as exciting for casual fans anymore, and why fighters from organizations like Rizin and KSW are finding success in the UFC.
He also shares his thoughts on potential matchups, rising prospects, and even what it would take for him to return to fighting.
Topics include:
• UFC fighter pay vs boxing
• Conor McGregor future
• UFC vs Zuffa Boxing
• MMA evolution & jiu-jitsu debate
• potential comeback fights
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| 0:00.0 | right through the city like brennishaw i'm on a mission to get it all right through the city like brinnon shaw |
| 0:06.6 | and you ain't thick please don't get involved and now brandon thick boy shot yes sir |
| 0:17.6 | come back to yeah ha uh Todd golden two Todd golden second. I love when guys are called the second. This is the boxing head who's telling me. He goes, the reason Zufa Boxing is paying Ben $15 million for the fight is supply and demand. Boxers make more money because there are more promotions and it's the going rate. Zufa has to pay up to sign these guys because if not, they get laughed out of the building. |
| 0:40.2 | The monopoly, quote, the UFC has on the MMA is the toxicity that keeps fighter paid down. |
| 0:46.5 | Maybe Netflix can truly challenge this enough to scare the UFC into paying these guys a little more unlikely. |
| 0:51.9 | However, agree, it's not happening. |
| 0:53.4 | Also, Danis simply would just ignore the commission issues if D is true. Yeah, that's what I said, bud. I like this guy. He's fucking smart. Dana simply would just ignore the commission issues in DC if true. He did it before, correct. Maybe the Tony fight. Oh, he's talking about versus um uh Randy Cotor fight because he |
| 1:13.3 | can't get sanctioned oh James Tony yep I can't remember who but I remember the commission |
| 1:18.0 | wouldn't sanction the fight for the title and Dana told him to F off and they told the fans |
| 1:21.8 | said fighter was in fact the champion yeah that's what I'm telling you this isn't this is a non-issue |
| 1:26.8 | uh j bunno how long before we see uh we see the first ufc fighter crossed into |
| 1:36.8 | zufa boxing uh and then he goes on about zufa boxing it's not happening uh dustin i |
| 1:42.2 | knew this before too dustin poor a alluded to it on the JRE with Rogan. He went to Dana. It was like, oh, me and Nate want to fight. You got Zufa Box, and Dana was like, absolutely not. I want to separate the two. I don't want this to be a mockery or a circus. It's actual boxers. So it's not happening. Joe underscore Velasco underscore two underscores |
| 2:03.2 | Yeah So it's not happening. Joe underscore Velasco underscore two underscores. |
| 2:05.6 | Do you agree? |
| 2:06.9 | Jiu-Jitsu ground game in MMA isn't boring. |
| 2:09.9 | Agree. |
| 2:10.9 | Casual fans only think so because of weight classes. |
| 2:14.0 | Originally, everyone fell in love with the idea of someone smaller, being able to defeat |
| 2:17.1 | someone bigger |
| 2:17.6 | using ground techniques when the UFC first hit the scene he's referring to like hoist gracie |
| 2:22.6 | that was because it's new we haven't seen anything so it was like holy shit this guy's an alien |
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