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Conor McGregor is the sort of man you each love, or prefer to hate. You each love his brash, in-your-face, no nonsense mannequin, in any other case you hate him for being a loud mouth and a disrespectful jerk. Either method might be going advantageous by him because of followers will watch in hopes of seeing him be destroyed or to see him do the destroying.

When the followers watch, he makes money. A LOT of money (on the very least, so he claims)…

Compared to the widespread fighter, he on a regular basis has made some enormous money. When he beat Chad Mendes at UFC 189 he took residence $500,000. Mendes moreover made $500,000, nonetheless pay for the alternative fighters on the precept card ranged from $13,000 to $300,000. In the months following that wrestle he negotiated a model new contract, and whereas particulars of it normally usually are not extensively acknowledged (the UFC does not share particulars of contracts or full payout information) he made it no secret that he was demanding a nine-figure deal.

We have no idea exactly how these negotiations turned out. However, we do know that for destroying Jose Aldo at UFC 194, Conor reportedly made $12 million.

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So what's he going to make in opposition to Nate Diaz? When requested this question by a CNBC interviewer this week, Conor McGregor claimed that his paycheck tonight will EASILY surpass $10 million, perhaps as extreme as $15 million.

"I'm going to breeze earlier the $10 million mark."

$10 million? Really? How may that be doable?

He is getting a reasonably good start with a disclosed purse of $1 million, a model new UFC file. The base purse for a lot of fighters usually consists of 1 factor to point and one factor to win, nonetheless McGregor will get a flat base ($500,000 for his ultimate two fights; $1 million for UFC 196). Fighters might earn bonuses for points identical to the Knockout of the Night or Performance of the Night (which he was awarded for his ultimate 5 fights).

Fight bonuses are sometimes merely $50,000 which leaves him an excellent distance from $10 million. That leaves pretty a bit of money to be made up from pay-per-view revenue.

While the UFC does not share precise numbers, a fighter's reduce will improve primarily based totally on the pay-per-view buys a wrestle generates. For occasion, the minimal threshold may be set at 100,000 buys, nonetheless as quickly as that mark is hit, the fighter will get $1 per buy. As the entire grows and surpasses totally different benchmarks the fighter's reduce will improve.

This gives guys a pretty big incentive to promote the wrestle as quite a bit as doable, and no one does promotion pretty like McGregor. He is not going to be politically applicable in what he says and does, nonetheless with every reward he gives himself and the quite a few (and generally creative) insults he throws at his opponents the curiosity of followers reaches new heights.

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Fans pays merely to see him, nonetheless the overall pay-per-view numbers will acquire a substantial improve with Holly Holm defending the title she obtained from Ronda Rousey for the first time as properly.

McGregor might even get a bonus from Reebok, and will also be one in all many fighter's Reebok has a specific sponsorship deal with (rumored to be 20-30 p.c royalty on apparel product sales). He moreover has sponsorship gives with Bud Light and Monster Energy drink (values unknown).

So—may Conor breeze by $10 million as he talked about for Saturday night time time's wrestle? There isn't any objective to imagine he would lie regarding the threat. Especially when you concentrate on the reality that UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta overtly believes that McGregor could possibly be the primary UFC fighter to surpass $100 million in occupation earnings.