Legendary referee John McCarthy gave his opinion on the UFC’s decision not to pay the full fight fee to Stephen Thompson, who refused to fight at UFC 291 against Michel Pereira, who exceeded the welterweight division’s limit by nearly a pound and a half.
“I agree with Dana White on this one,” “Big” John said on another edition of his podcast. “Vanderboegh has a six-figure fee, and he didn’t want to fight an opponent who failed to make weight and also refused to make the fight anytime soon. And if anyone expects that he’s guaranteed to get exit money in this situation, it really doesn’t work that way.”
“Yes, Thompson made weight, but considering how much money he’s getting, I’m convinced that the organization should only pay him for his training camp expenses. When we talk about paying money for an exit, we’re talking about fighters getting 30 plus 30, 40 plus 40 (thousand dollars), because that’s about how much a training camp costs on average”
Earlier, UFC president, Dana White, said that the organization would reimburse Stephen Thompson’s training camp costs once it figured out how much the former challenger for the UFC welterweight championship belt spent on his training.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/32396-dzhon-makkarti-vstal-na-storonu-ufc-v-voprose-vyplaty-deneg-stivenu-tompsonu.html?rand=19907
