Conor McGregor är en av UFCs absolut största stjärnor, och den 12 december tar han sig an fjäderviktsmästaren Jose Aldo då de möts under UFC 194. McGregor har dock inte bara bältet i sikte, han har även planer på att kamma hem ett kontrakt i 100 miljoner dollar-klassen. Detta hade McGregor att säga via ”The MMA Hour”:
Fights that have linked to my name are main event status. There is no other fighter in the game that has that. When fighters lose to a fighter, they are not a draw. But, when they lose to me they are draws. They can go to different regions and headline and make seven-figure revenues on the gate. That’s what I’m doing, they’re offspring numbers and nobody else would know about or really pay attention to.
I pay attention to it and my name brings the numbers. If you have an association with my name, whatever the result, you will be main event slots after that because that’s what my name brings. It puts you into that spotlight. It gives you that status. I am well aware of that. The numbers rule, all the belts and that other shit, mean nothing. Everyone was handed a belt, Jose was handed a belt, they mean nothing, numbers rule in this game. I’m the ruler of the number and I let that be known.
The contract that I’m talking now is nine figures, nine figures I’m talking. Nobody in the game has talked nine figures. That’s $100 million plus. That’s my contract, so, that’s where I’m at and I’ve done it the way I’ve done it. Either learn from it or don’t. When you’re bringing in $60 million revenue on a fight where the main event guy has pulled out two weeks before, you think anyone else can do that?
I came at them with fact, numbers and I didn’t go round about. I looked them dead in the eye with straight facts. When someone comes at you with clear facts, there’s only one thing you can do and that’s respect it. You got to respect good business, if you don’t respect good business, then that’s on you. I am very confident we will come to a deal and it will be in the nine-figure mark, and rightfully so.
Sist vi såg Conor inne i buren besegrade han Chad Mendes via TKO i andra ronden då de möttes under UFC 189, hans 14:e raka seger där 13 av dem tillkommit via avslut.
