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Published 13:37 23 May 2017 BST
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"Rory MacDonald isn't on that kind of hustle that I am. And also, he's making $400,000 from Bellator. Why would he have to go and chase sponsorship?"https://www.instagram.com/p/BQS7ED-Aax2/?taken-by=sportsjoedotie $400,000 is an astoundingly high return from a solitary night's work especially when you look at his highest disclosed payouts from his UFC career. That's not even including sponsorship revenue, although he admitted that he deliberately took a hit in that area to pursue more lucrative long-term deals for future fights. One might think his highest ever payday would be the one that Dana White described as the 'best fight of... ever' against Robbie Lawler at UFC 189. This may be the case when you take into account locker room bonuses, but the disclosed payout of that title fight loss was only $139,000 ($59,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus, $30,000 Reebok sponsorship). MacDonald's highest disclosed payout was his $162,000 knockout victory over Tarec Saffiedine, followed closely by his unanimous decision win over grappling master Demian Maia which banked him a cool $150,000. For his UFC swansong, the title eliminator loss to Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson, MacDonald earned just $69,000 ($59,000 to show, $10,000 Reebok sponsorship).
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