$50 Million is the number Jon Jones’s management is looking for
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Jon Jones is fighting a war with UFC and Dana White to get the money he thinks he deserves for a super-fight against Francis Ngannou at the heavyweight division.
Many people have sided with Jones and believes and that he deserves that kind of money, this request also seems reasonable as other athletes from different sports who are equivalent to Jones are getting that kind of money, to put things in perspective, boxing champ Canelo Alvarez got 35 million dollars for his last fight, whereas Jones earned 540,000 dollars for his last fight.
Jones’s coach had an interview with Submission Radio where he expressed that Jones should get somewhere around 50 million dollars for this fight.
“Gosh, I look at the big fights … I think this fight can be easily as [big as] some of the big Mayweather fights out there. “What did Floyd Mayweather make? A hundred million? I don’t know. You know, that type of thing. He was kind of his own promoter.”
So, Jon (Jones) has gotta share that with the UFC as far as on pay-per-view buys. But I don’t see why it wouldn’t be a fifty-million-dollar fight. And the UFC still makes bank, and is able to pay off a lot of the debt they have and go forward. I think the UFC needs a superstar like Jon Jones. I think Conor was the guy for a while, and he’s fallen off. But those big names are what makes the UFC money, ultimately.”
Jon Jones pay-per-views has never hit the 1 million mark
With all the negotiations going on we need to understand that an athlete also has to be that big in terms of how much audience he attracts, Jon Jones is nowhere in the list of top 10 pay-per-view buys in UFC history.
Khabib vs Conor fight had 2.4 million buys, while Jones vs Cormier 2 had only 860,000 buys, Conor vs Diaz 2 had 1.65 million buys while Jones vs Gustafsson had 700,000 buys. This is something that UFC management can use while negotiating with Jones, but maybe all this attention would work in his favor.
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Suryansh Thakur
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