‘Cease enjoying us and the followers’: Jorge Masvidal BLASTS UFC over pay, saying ‘If I am not price it let me go’

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UFC star and BMF champion Jorge Masvidal has referred to as out the UFC over fighter pay as negotiations over a possible welterweight title combat with champion Kamaru Usman hit impasse.

Masvidal, who captured the one-off BMF belt with a stoppage win over Nate Diaz at UFC 244 final 12 months, the No. 1 contender for the UFC welterweight title presently held by Kamaru Usman.

However after a prolonged interval with no combat booked, and accusations going backwards and forwards between the pair over the non-booking of the combat, Masvidal has now turned his consideration to the UFC by way of a collection of tweets.

“If I am not price it leg me go,” he started, earlier than replying to a fan who posted “Simply when everybody thought it was Usman holding up the combat.”

“They instructed me requested for manner an excessive amount of,” Masvidal replied. “They enjoying us.”

The welterweight star, who was one of many UFC’s greatest stars in 2019, later hinted that negotiations for a combat with Usman have fallen flat over cash, saying, “Why make me combat for half of what I made on my final combat trigger the opposite dude cannot draw?”

He additionally replied to a fan who steered followers are getting aggravated that he hasn’t signed a combat contract.

Responding to the fan/troll, who instructed him, “Sufficient dancing and simply combat,” Masvidal fired again, “I have been preventing for 16 years and by no means took a pay lower to entertain the followers. I’ve to take a pay lower for a title shot Wtf is mistaken with you?”

And he additionally hinted on the UFC’s line of rationalization for the decrease provide when he tweeted, “Do not inform me a couple of pandemic when studies right this moment present highest inventory market has ever been. All people getting again to work and also you shopping for an island. Cease enjoying us and the followers.”

Clearly Masvidal, who’s a veteran of the combat sport and on the peak of his preventing profession, is aware of his worth and is not ready to promote himself brief.

Curiously, the Miami native is represented by the identical managerial firm that appears after Jon Jones, who turned embroiled in the same row with the UFC over cash relating to a possible heavyweight matchup with Francis Ngannou.

Jones threatened to relinquish his gentle heavyweight title and stroll away from the UFC. And it appears Masvidal can also be completely happy to be handed his launch by the UFC if they will not pay what he considers a good charge for his subsequent combat.

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