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It was recently announced by Zuffa Boxing that Conor Benn has signed a one fight deal with the promotion worth approximately $15 million.
Former UFC Bantamweight Champion Sean O’Malley wasn’t too thrilled with how much Benn was being paid and now Michael Page can be added to the list.
"It’s not something that I'm happy about," Page told Yahoo! Sports (transcript via Tristen Critchfield of Sherdog). "What I would say is when the announcement of the Paramount, big-money partnership [with the UFC] came, people were asking me, 'Are you excited about this?' And my answer was, 'Well, what does that mean for the fighters? Until we understand how that's going to translate to the fighters, there's nothing to really be excited about.’"
Conor McGregor is the record holder for the highest paid UFC fighter to compete in a single fight, as he made $3 million for the rematch with Nate Diaz.
Page is also disappointed in how UFC CEO Dana White has conducted himself around other UFC fighters.
“Then I heard about the, if you want to call it an increase, in bonus structure,” he added. “This is why I wasn’t bothered to be excited initially. Because for me, that doesn’t do enough comparatively to the amount of money that they’ve just brought in for themselves. ... Then to see it and how quickly [Dana White] values people — or how highly he values people away from the sport that kind of built his reputation — it's just upsetting, to be fair. It's disappointing more than anything.”
