Israel Adesanya has professional boxing experience, going 5-1 from 2014-2015, but don’t expect him to ever return to the squared circle again. According to the interim UFC middleweight champion, he can make the big boxing purses in mixed martial arts and wouldn’t need to switch sports like Conor McGregor did to make bank.
“I’ll make that purse in MMA, guaranteed. I’ll make that purse in the UFC,” Adesanya said ahead of UFC 243. “You can make $100 million in the UFC. You don’t have to go to boxing. Only Mayweather is going to make that. Only McGregor is going to make that, when he fought Mayweather, so that’s the Mayweather effect.