“My whole fight purse was gone,” Miesha Tate reveals that 98 percent of her fight purse was spent towards training camp
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UFC superstar Miesha Tate made a comeback into the UFC and she barely got to enjoy her fighter’s purse at UFC Vegas 31.
Miesha Tate is a former UFC bantamweight champion and took a 5 year lay-off before she made her comeback in the year 2021 at UFC Vegas 31. She fought Marion Reneau and won the fight in champion style as she won via TKO in the third round of the fight. “Cupcake” also won a $200,000 bonus for her TKO along with her paycheck. Despite being one of the highest paid fighters that night on the card, Tate reveals that she could barely scrape something for her expenses from the check.
Miesha co-hosts a show on the SiriusXM, called MMA on SiriusXM with Ryan McKinnel. “My whole fight purse was gone; show and win, for this fight,” Tate told McKinnell. “I at least spent, it had to be about 98 percent at least. So, maybe I walked away with a little bit. But, out of $200,000? Yeah, I’m just lucky I made a bonus, to be honest.”
“I’m serious, that’s how much it costs. Because you take taxes off the top. 70 percent of my fight purse is gone immediately, right off the top. So I have 30 percent to work with. And that 30 percent I take to buy my organic foods, to get my – whatever – training gear, heart rate monitors, whatever other things that I need to invest in to make the camp go well. And it’s expensive. You know, it’s very expensive to eat like that.”
Miesha Tate says she came back purely for her love for the sport
In the podcast, Miesha Tate explained in detail where most of her money was spent. “It’s very expensive to just facilitate the things that I need to do…travel to training different places,” she said. “Especially when you have your head coach is remote, is in Spokane, you know? So I fly him down, fly him back. Flying out to Denver to go and train with Trevor Wittman, getting to Southern California to train with Treigning Labs; all the supplements I’ve had to invest in and things like that as well. It’s just, yeah, it’s a lot more expensive than people would think. It’s not as glorious.”
“And that’s why it’s like, you cannot set out to do this for the money. And if you really want to be the best, investing in yourself is pricey. It’s very, very, very pricey. But, I’m doubling down on myself, because I know the money is when you have the belt, when you get those pay-per-view dollars. That’s real money, then we’re talking. The rest of this fighting stuff is just, like, we’re not making a killing, you know? We’re not making a killing. But, I’m investing in myself because I believe in myself, I know I can become a champion again, and I’m doing this because I want to, you know what I mean?,” said Miesha Tate.
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