{"id":458365,"date":"2025-09-28T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:18:10","slug":"mcgregor-negotiating-with-u-s-government-for-100-million-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458365\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor \u2018negotiating with U.S. government\u2019 for $100 million purse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor raised a whole lot of eyebrows when he suggested his price for a White House fight was $100 million.<\/a> That\u2019s not a number anyone, not even the biggest star in the sport\u2019s history, is likely to get out of the UFC. But in a new short interview, \u201cThe Notorious\u201d explained that he\u2019s not really dealing with the UFC this time around \u2026 he\u2019s dealing with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not negotiating on behalf of myself for this fight like usual,\u201d McGregor said at last night\u2019s BKFC Manchester event. \u201cI\u2019m negotiating with the United States of America on behalf of Ireland for this fight. So it\u2019s a peculiar one. But Trump and the administration have been fully supportive and backing, and I cannot wait to put on a show.\u201d<\/p>\n

While specifics are cloudy regarding how big McGregor\u2019s recent purses actually are, the Mac himself has claimed he made $100 million<\/a> fighting Floyd Mayweather and predicted an $80 million purse<\/a> for his fight against Donald Cerrone. So $100 million seems in step for a Conor fight of this magnitude, when you take into account whatever inflation the Irish sports star applies to his paychecks in public.<\/p>\n

$100 million is also right around the rumored number<\/a> that Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez made to fight Terence Crawford just weeks ago in a Saudi-funded fight promoted by UFC CEO Dana White. No one in boxing even blinks any more at those numbers, given Saudi Arabia\u2019s deep pockets. We have to wonder now if McGregor is hoping to become the first fighter to receive a similar pay bump thanks to U.S. government money.<\/p>\n

The UFC\u2019s big America 250 event is set to land in Washington D.C. at the end of June, one week before the 4th of July. According to Dana White, the promotion will move International Fight Week from its home in Las Vegas to D.C. where it expects over 85,000 fans<\/a> to watch the White House card on screens from President\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s undoubtedly going to be the biggest event the UFC has ever held, but will parent company TKO be okay with allowing one of their fighters to make so much money considering their entire business model is predicated on an 80\/20 split going their way? We still have several months to go before the UFC even starts booking this card in earnest. We\u2019ll see how negotiations between McGregor, the UFC, and the U.S. government develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor raised a whole lot of eyebrows when he suggested his price for a White House fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[12137,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-458365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ufc-news","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}