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Conor McGregor was already worth an estimated $ 120 million, but the UFC star may have a chance to make that jump significantly with a single fight.
The Irish brawler returns to the octagon for the first time since October 2018, fighting on Saturday against Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in a highly anticipated bout. The headline match of UFC 246 is also expected to generate a massive payday for McGregor, The Sporting News reported.
As the report noted, McGregor is set to earn at least a $ 3 million purse for the bout itself, but believed he would actually be making a huge windfall. In an interview with ESPN, McGregor predicted that his total earnings would reach about $ 80 million. As The Sporting News noted, that would not be too outlandish a prediction given that McGregor earned an estimated $ 50 million for his last fight, a loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov. He earned another estimated $ 100 million for his first and only jaunt into the boxing ring, an August 2017 loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr.