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14th December 2015
11:31am GMT

The people at Forbes have been doing the maths and here are their estimates on the lowest and highest amount of money McGregor earned on Saturday night:
'McGregor's contract gives him a cut of pay-per-view shares: a reported $3-$5 for each purchase. While we don't know exactly how many buys UFC 194 will total — most outlets predict well over one million.
'Going off the lowest figures in that equation, one million PPV buys with a $3 cut, McGregor would already be getting paid more than $230,000 per second.
'Add in his $580,000 combined fight and sponsor pay, and that number rises to over $275,000 per second ($3.5 million total). In case you’re curious, a more optimistic estimate for McGregor — say, a $5 PPV cut and 1.5 million PPV buys — would equate to nearly $622,000 per second ($8 million total).'
So that's somewhere between £152,000 and £410,000 per second in that fight. Incredible.Explore more on these topics: