No one HAS to make a living as a pro fighter. This is these guys’ CHOSEN profession, if they aren’t happy with what they are getting paid they need to find another way to make money. No one is guaranteed from anyone anywhere that they will be able to make enough money to live life doing what they want to do. I mean, lets be honest, most people’s “dream job” would be to not have a job and go do fun stuff all the time. That doesn’t pay the bills, so we all choose other professions that pay better, well most of us anyways. My first job at age 14 I made $6/hr as a seasonal employee for a recreation area, I didn’t mind the job, but the next summer I wanted to make more money, so I got a job doing something else that paid better.

Shane Carwin still CHOOSES to work as an engineer in addition to training and fighting, Brett Rogers CHOSE to quit his job at Sam’s Club and go full time as a fighter. All the other fighters in the UFC (or any other org) that are “full time” fighters CHOSE that path, no one forced it on them. Where they are in life is a direct result of the choices they have made (and likewise for pretty much anyone else for that matter). If they are not happy with the amount of income their choices garnered them, then they need to make different choices (again, likewise for pretty much anyone else in any other profession).