Daniel Cormier thinks UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones making $30 million to combat Tom Aspinall could be a stretch.
UFC commentator and in style podcaster Joe Rogan stated he heard that Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) is asking for $30 million to tackle interim champ Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) in a title-unification bout that Dana White ensures occurs in 2025.
Cormier, a former UFC dual-champion and two-time opponent of Jones, headlined loads of huge pay-per-view occasions throughout his profession. He shared perception on his paydays as champion and what UFC’s negotiations with Jones may appear like.
“I’ll inform you guys, as an individual who has been concerned in huge fights, an individual who has bought pay-per-views, an individual who at his time was on the prime of the pay scale within the UFC because the heavyweight and light-weight heavyweight champion, $30 million was actually a world away from something we have been making,” Cormier stated on his YouTube channel.
“I keep in mind after I received paid in New York, I received a giant bump to take a combat on three weeks’ discover, which finally grew to become my wage, and other people have been astounded with the quantity. However I’ll inform you it was a fraction of what that quantity that he’s asking for is. It was nowhere close to that. However I’ve heard now rumors that the higher-end guys are making extra. The Israel Adesanya, the Jon Jones, the Stipe Miocic. I heard that Stipe Miocic made huge cash for the final combat.”
Taking a look at Jones’ previous pay-per-view and gate numbers, Cormier thinks $30 million isn’t essentially an outlandish ask – though he doesn’t see him getting paid precisely that quantity.
“Rogan thinks that the UFC pays the $30 million to get Jon Jones in there with Tom Aspinall,” Cormier stated. “I’m undecided he will get to $30 (million), however in case you ask for 30 and you find yourself with 20 otherwise you get 15, that’s a win for Jon Jones on his manner out.”
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