WWE President Nick Khan spoke to Max Kellerman in an interview for Ring Magazine's Inside the Ring.
During the interview, the topic of boxing's pay structure emerged where Khan pointed out that traditionally in boxing, there are two groups of fighters: those that are at the top who are "rich" and everyone else who isn't. Khan opined that in WWE, it isn't split in the same manner.
"It’s a meritocracy. If you make it to the top and you’re marketable, you get paid. That’s how any job should be. Your job, my job, any job. Similarly in WWE, if you’re Roman Reigns, if you’re Brock Lesnar, if you’re Cody Rhodes, all the guys at the top of our game, CM Punk. They’re getting rich. If you’re in the middle, you’re not getting rich but you have a really good life. In boxing, to your point, it’s not that way. It’s not that way. There’s really only rich or not rich."
Khan, along with UFC Dana White, are two of three people heading up Zuffa Boxing, which will be run under the TKO umbrella and the company's answer into breaking into boxing as they have with properties WWE (wrestling) and UFC (mixed martial arts).
