Conor McGregor was knocked down for the first time throughout all their race to UFC, As his previous four defeats had all been by submission. But Dustin Poirier he found the precise and powerful blows in the second assault to send him to the ground and then liquidate him in a matter of seconds.
A painful defeat in the octagon, no doubt. But it is impossible to overlook that for the Irishman it was a great victory in finance, because he pocketed nothing more and nothing less than five million dollars to be less than two full rounds in combat. Poirier, the winner, took a million.
But there is still the most extraordinary figure and it has to do with the money corresponding to each fighter for the amount of fans who have paid to watch the event live and in person. Everything indicates that in this section they would be around $ 20 million more for McGregor.
It is clear that at once the two-time UFC champion could have missed the opportunity to face Manny Pacquiao in the short term, as this event no longer generates the same interest after its stumble.
There it is that he could quite understand the weight of McGregor’s defeat to Poirier, if one considers that the only time he braided in combat with a boxing superstar, as is the case with Floyd Mayweather, he took about $ 85 million which constitutes the highest stock market he has achieved in his entire career.