Jose Aldo Hasn’t Seen A Dime Of UFC 194 PPV Cut

Jose Aldo said he hasn’t seen his cut of the UFC PPV sales, but that wouldn’t make up for his devastating loss to Conor McGregor anyway…

Fighter pay has understandably been one of the hottest topics of discussion in MMA throughout 2015 and heading into 2016.

The debate was in no small part amplified by the UFC’s heavily criticized uniform sponsorship deal with Reebok, and many well known fighters have let their not-so-positive feelings about it be known. The most high-profile of those names has undoubtedly been former featherweight champion Jose Aldo, who’s criticized everything from the supposedly low pay for his training partners to the Reebok fight kits, to which he hilariously compared to those of children’s TV show ‘Power Rangers’.

Yet even though he was knocked out by archrival Conor McGregor in 13 seconds at December 12’s UFC 194, Aldo was expected to be headed for a huge payday apart from his 0,000 base salary thanks to his perceived pay-per-view (PPV) cut from the massively awaited event, which is expected to have drawn well north of 1 million buys.

But Aldo curiously hasn’t seen a dime of that money.

Speaking at the opening of his new hamburger restaurant in Brazil (via MMA Fighting), Aldo said that the thought of that money doesn’t make him feel better about the loss, partly because he hasn’t seen it anyway.

And as usual, he didn’t seem too happy with his employers. Jump to the next page to find out what the seemingly disgruntled champ had to say about his UFC 194 backend profits….

“Fuck no, no way. I haven’t seen any of it. I still don’t know how they did in pay-per-view. I hope it sold well so we can at least win in that area, but I never thought about money or anything. We talk about this because people ask, but on my daily basis I leave that aside.”

The onetime pound-for-pound kingpin is focused on running through McGregor in the rematch, so while ‘Notorious’ attempts to win the lightweight belt from Rafael dos Anjos, Aldo is focusing on some business opportunities outside the cage while he waits for his cut of the UFC 194 PPV haul.

That money isn’t going to soften the blow of his first loss in 10 years, however, and Aldo still thinks his one-punch defeat to McGregor was a fluke. We’ve seen several immediate rematches granted to former champions in the UFC lately, and most of the titleholders who lost weren’t nearly as accomplished or decorated as Aldo.

But ‘Junior’ still has a tall mountain to climb in order to get back his belt from McGregor. With the brash Irishman now fighting at lightweight, the 145-pound belt could be held up for a while depending on what happens in his fight with ‘RDA,’ so Aldo could find himself rematching another featherweight who feels he’s been left out in the cold in Frankie Edgar.

For the once-thought-to-be invincible champion from Brazil, anything less than avenging his devastating loss to McGregor just won’t do, however.