“It was like a slap to the face. I did everything in my power that I could to show up on that scale, and that’s what I thought we were going to do. That’s why you call it show money. And to every fan that’s out there in the world, (UFC President) Dana (White), he said they cut me out a check, and I didn’t get a check, and then this morning I got my wire, and I’m looking at it and I’m like, ‘What the frick, man?’ I’m like, ‘Seriously?’”
“[White] said, ‘We budget for these fights.’ Those are his exact words. So then you had it, but you don’t want to fork it over. That’s like, all right … How am I supposed to like the company I work for if I’m short-changing me? He was telling me he was taking a loss from this, and I’ll bet you he’s somewhere out on his boat, or doing something on his jet, laying $250,000 down on a craps table.”
Top UFC lightweight Tony Ferguson tells MMAJunkie that he’s not exactly a happy UFC fighter.
He did his job by showing up and making weight for UFC 209. Yet, he didn’t get his contracted show money as Dana White told the media he would.
Instead, Ferguson received some other amount and it’s all due to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s missed weight. Something he feels isn’t fair.
Thoughts?
