Mendes to be paid for UFC 189 fight or no
For the record, White said Thursday that Mendes will be paid, regardless of whether he fights Conor McGregor at UFC 189 on July 11.
UFC featherweight Chad Mendes took a potential fight with Conor McGregor at UFC 189 without knowing they pay, if any, should the fight not happen.
“I don’t really know,” said Mendes to Kevin Iole for Yahoo Sports. “But they offered me the chance to be the stand-by fighter for UFC and, paid or not, I was all over it. I was 100 percent going to do it.”
However, UFC president Dana White said that the fighter will be paid for showing up at fighting weight.
For the record, White said Thursday that Mendes will be paid, regardless of whether he fights. White said the UFC does that frequently, and said it paid Jessica Eye to train and be ready as a backup to fight Ronda Rousey at UFC 184 in February if Cat Zingano wasn’t able to make it.