Six million greenback man: Khabib Nurmagomedov will get career-high payout in remaining UFC struggle – report

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s second spherical submission win towards Justin Gaethje earned the Russian UFC champion a career-high purse of $ 6 million – however his remaining payout will probably be far larger for the final struggle of his profession.

Per estimates on-line, Khabib will take house disclosed pay of $ 6 million along with post-fight bonuses of $ 90,000 after his 13th successive win within the UFC and 29th total profession victory.

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Ought to these estimates be correct, it matches the tally he obtained for his UFC 242 win towards Dustin Poirier final 12 months.

Nonetheless, Nurmagomedov will nearly actually obtain extra this time round because of the pay-per-view factors in his contract after UFC president Dana White confirmed to the media throughout struggle week the UFC 254 was trending in direction of turning into one of many UFC’s most worthwhile field workplace occasions of their historical past.

The $ 6 million purse awarded to Nurmagomedov for his two most up-to-date wins eclipses the career-high payouts of $ three million given to Conor McGregor for his UFC 229 loss to Nurmagomedov (who earned $ 2 million for that struggle). McGregor additionally obtained an identical sum for his January win towards Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone earlier this 12 months.

Regardless of incomes extra in his final two fights than McGregor, the Irishman probably stays the game’s greatest pay-per-view commodity as he added additional hundreds of thousands to his price as a consequence of further funds from his highly-lucrative record of sponsors.

Justin Gaethje, in the meantime, is believed to have earned just a little over $ 400,000 for his efforts in Abu Dhabi.

Nurmagomedov’s retirement guidelines out a probably vital payday for what would have been his 30th profession struggle.

He had been linked within the media with a “legacy struggle” with former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre is a contest which might have probably been a field workplace bonanza for all concerned, whereas a rematch with Conor McGregor would have additionally earned Nurmagomedov one other career-high payout.

In fact, regardless of his blended martial arts profession being over Nurmagomedov nonetheless has a number of additional avenues wherein to extend his wealth. His model is as sturdy as any fighter in international fight sports activities and it stays to be seen if he would contemplate an exhibition boxing match with Floyd Mayweather in his future as has been mooted within the press a number of occasions previously couple of years. 

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However, as ever with Nurmagomedov, the attract of cash was by no means his prime motivation contained in the cage and together with his legacy now solidly enshrined in MMA historical past, he might be assured that not solely is his personal future secured however so too is the way forward for his household – some extent which can little doubt fulfill the famously loyal champion.