Israel Adesanya returned to a thorny subject in the UFC, the bonuses.
And he would like the UFC to make an effort on that side.
Israel Adesanya currently has no official fight scheduled, although logic dictates that he will face the winner of the fight between Robert Whittaker and Dricus du Plessis at UFC 290 in July. And for this fight, the ‘Last Stylebender’ has even already made his prediction.
In a recent interview given to the Impaulsive podcast, Israel Adesanya talked about his daily life, his training alongside Logan Paul and many other things. He even touched on a sensitive subject: UFC bonuses.
Indeed, the UFC gives out four post-fight bonuses per night, with $50,000 each, and Adesanya thinks the UFC could change this amount, which dates from a very long time ago:
“My knockouts alone are worth $50,000. Alone, they are knockouts. Like my last, bonus, $50,000. I’m paid…I’ve said it before. UFC sometimes go up to $100,000 for certain cards, UFC 200, UFC 100 they did, bonuses were $100,000. When I knock someone out, I normally get a bonus, so I know my knockouts are worth $50,000. »
“But with the merger of UFC and WWE, the company is worth $21.4 billion. I tell myself that they can increase these bonuses. Inflation has been rising for a few years. Premiums need to go up, that’s what I think. I told them, I said it publicly, there’s nothing crazy.”
The middleweight champion therefore believes that the UFC has the power and the means to increase the post-fight bonuses of the fighters. Last year, the UFC had tried to set up cryptocurrency bounties, but the experiment failed very quickly and stopped quietly…
