Islam Makhachev the defending UFC Lightweight champion is back and his next title defense fight is against Brazil fighter Renato Moicano in UFC 311. Before this fight, just a day before pay-per-view Arman Tsarukyan, the challenger for the title is withdrew due to injury issue. It's Renato Moicano who replace the challenger Arman Tsarukyan and get the title fight instead.
Boxers | Purses |
---|---|
Islam Makhachev | $1 million show, $42k sponsorship |
Renato Moicano | $500k show, $32k sponsorship |
Islam Makhachev, the defending champion of UFC lightweight title will earn guaranteed purse $1 million for the fight and his earnings will rise to $3.5 million based on UFC pay-per-view revenue share the figure reported based on more than 750k ppv sales on fight day. Before this fight, Islam Makhachev earn $2.64m for his fight against Dustin Poirier.
Renato Moicano, purse will remain $300k if his fight re-main part of the main-card with opponent Beneil Dariush. However just a day before there two major changes, the fight between Dariush and Moicano will not be part of the pay-per-view, instead of this, Renato Moicano fight Islam Makhachev and his purse will increase to $500k and further earnings based on pay-per-view revenue share which will hike maximum $1.8m based on ppv share.