Conor McGregor will get pleasure from one other $20million pay-day no matter the results of his trilogy battle with Dustin Poirier tonight.
The Irishman has lengthy been the best earner on the UFC roster regardless of his relative inactivity during the last 4 years.
And his checking account will swell as soon as once more after this weekend with the UFC 264 predicted to rank among the many highest-grossing within the promotion’s historical past.
Though no purse figures have but been launched, McGregor can count on to financial institution an identical assured sum as he did for his second battle with Poirier six months in the past.
On that event, the Dubliner earned $5m plus his share of the pay-per-view income which was anticipated to take his complete pay cheque previous $20m.
And if the pay-per-view gross sales high two million, McGregor may earn near his document pay-day of $30m, particularly with crowds returning to the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Poirier will earn considerably lower than McGregor however can count on a rise on his $1m assured purse from the rematch which he received by second-round stoppage in Abu Dhabi.
And the previous interim light-weight champion revealed he turned down a shot at recently-crowned 155lb ruler Charles Oliveira in order to make more cash from combating McGregor.
“I don’t how a lot you need to get into the precise contractual stuff with this, however me combating for the belt, I wouldn’t have gotten pay-per-view (factors),” he informed ESPN. “I might’ve gotten a base wage of most likely not even a 3rd of my base wage for this battle. It simply doesn’t make sense.
“|I’m a prizefighter. I don’t need to put the UFC on blast or the numbers and the way in which we do offers and make it an enormous factor like that… If I’m gonna make 5, six, seven, ten occasions the sum of money to battle Conor once more… like I stated, I’m a father and a husband and I’ve priorities.”
McGregor has come a great distance since his first assembly with Poirier in 2014 for which his purse was £55,000. He additionally earned a £55,000 win bonus and a £36,000 efficiency bonus.
The Dubliner’s biggest-ever purse got here away from the cage when he took on Floyd Mayweather on his skilled boxing debut.
McGregor earned round £100m as he was stopped within the tenth spherical by the ring legend and his web value has continued to develop.
He has invested nicely exterior of the cage and lately bought his stake in his Correct No.12 whiskey firm for a sum which may attain $700m.
However regardless of his fame and fortune, McGregor insists he’s as hungry as ever.
“That is my bread and butter, that is what wakes me up within the morning with hearth in my stomach,” he stated. “Errors to right, ways to organize for, I’ve had an excellent camp and an excellent give attention to the opponent.
“I am again on the constructing web site, I’ve a tough hat, a hi-vis and I’ve two hammers in my fingers.
“That is my mindset; I am not relishing my previous accomplishments; all the cash in my financial institution, all of the Forbes accomplishments, I do not care about that.”