Nate Diaz On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," UFC 201 Fighter Salaries, RDA-Ferguson Set For November
- If you are a fan of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," then you have likely seen his "What's Up?" segment where they hit the streets and ask people questions. Well, UFC 202 main event fighter Nate Diaz joined the show to take part in this edition.
Diaz came up on unsuspecting people after they offered up their thoughts on his fight vs. Conor McGregor later this month. Diaz won the first contest via second round submission. The two meet August 20 from Las Vegas and the T-Mobile Arena.
- Former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos will try to get right back into title contention when he meets Tony Ferguson this November in Mexico City. The card, which features the finals of The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 3, goes down on November 5 from the Arena Ciudad de Mexico and airs live on FOX Sports 1.
Last month, dos Anjos (25-8) shaw his five-fight win streak come to an end with a first round knockout loss to Eddie Alvarez for the title. Prior to that, he had picked up wins over notables Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Nate Diaz and Benson Henderson.
Ferguson (21-3), meanwhile, sports an eight-fight win streak and is a former winner of The Ultimate Fighter. He was scheduled to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov earlier this year, but an injury sidelined Ferguson. Then, a scheduled match with Michael Chiesa was scrapped when Chiesa went down with an injury. Ferguson remained on that card and submitted Lando Vannata.
- Despite losing the UFC welterweight title, Robbie Lawler was still the big winner from UFC 201, walking away with $500,000 in disclosed salary. The numbers were released earlier this week from the event which featured Tyron Woodley knocking out Lawler to win the belt.
*Tyron Woodley: $340,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus)
*Robbie Lawler: $500,000
*Karolina Kowalkiewicz: $38,000 (includes $19,000 win bonus)
*Rose Namajunas: $46,000
*Jake Ellenberger: $150,000 (includes $75,000 win bonus)
*Matt Brown: $73,000
*Erik Perez: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)
*Francisco Rivera: $23,000
*Ryan Benoit: $26,000 (includes $13,000 win bonus)
*Fredy Serrano: $12,000
*Nikita Krylov: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)
*Ed Herman: $51,000
*Jorge Masvidal: $114,000 (includes $57,000 win bonus)
*Ross Pearson: $54,000
*Anthony Hamilton: $32,000 (includes $16,000 win bonus)
*Damian Grabowski: $18,000
*Wilson Reis: $50,000 (includes $25,000 win bonus)
*Hector Sandoval: $12,000
*Michael Graves: $12,000
*Bojan Velickovic: $14,000 (fight was declared a majority draw)
*Damien Brown: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
*Cesar Arzamendia: $10,000