Conor McGregor har på kort tid stigit enormt mycket i popularitet efter sina vinster mot Diego Brandao och Dustin Poirier, men det är dock inte alla som tycker om honom. Många av hans kollegor känner nu stort avund över de senaste intäkterna som McGregor lyckats dra in och tycker att han blir särbehandlad.
Det här berättar UFC:s Lorenzo Fertitta om det, via ”MMAFighting”:
At the end of the day, it’s a business. The guy can literally drive numbers from an entire country. When Conor fights the entire country of Ireland shuts down. We get like a 60 share of the TV market there. Over 11 percent of the tickets sold in Las Vegas were from Ireland. He moves the needle on Pay-Per-View. He headlined his first event in Ireland, did a $1.4 million gate.
Of course, we’re going to reward guys that are successful in the Octagon and have a lot of wins and things like that, but if you can be like a [Georges St-Pierre] or be like a Brock Lesnar, who people are now comparing Conor to with the excitement that he’s bringing, then you’re going to have the ability to potentially drive a little bit harder of a negotiating bargain because you do bring that to the UFC.
McGregor vann senast över Poirier via knockout i första ronden under UFC 178, i slutet av september.
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