KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV has confirmed he is now one of UFC’s top three earners after penning a new deal with the promotion.
The unbeaten lightweight champion agreed his new contract last week.
And although the 30-year-old Russian refused to reveal the exact details of his agreement, he did admit it was one of the biggest packages in UFC history.
Speaking on his Youtube channel, Nurmagomedov said: “Frankly speaking, I would not like to disclose the terms of the contract.
“They are very good and most importantly, the brothers were extended, one was signed, the deadline was removed, we made some concessions, they went to some and came to some common denominator that is beneficial to all.
“If I say it is one of the best, it will somehow be wrong.
“I guess you can put it in the top three, some of the best conditions, contracts and agreements that have ever been concluded with the UFC.”
Nurmagomedov is in London tomorrow to promote his upcoming title defence against Dustin Poirier in Abu Dhabi on September 7.
He will be joined in the Middle East by his team-mates Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov after the Nevada State Athletic Commission reduced their one-year suspensions to just nine months following the shocking brawl that broke out after Nurmagomedov’s victory over Conor McGregor.
The punishments handed out to the MMA king and his friends were felt to be extremely unjust by the Russian and his camp.
He said he would refuse to compete until these suspensions were lifted – a wish granted when both were shortened following a review hearing by the NSAC, leading to his manager Ali Abdelaziz free to thrash out his new mega-money package to return to the octagon.
Nurmagomedov added: “They (contract negotiations) were complicated of course. Ali said they were light. I have not experienced such difficulties because I knew that here it is, one, two, three, four, five.
“I specified for them such conditions [and] I told them without these five conditions, I will not agree because I think that they were absolutely deserved not only by me but also by our team, the whole team, with what happened in the last battle, before and after the battle, and directly during the battle.
“I think that we deserved conditions, contracts, so let’s say all that we have.”
Nurmagomedov is on an 11-match winning streak in UFC.
He claimed the vacant lightweight title in April 2018 with a decision victory over Al Iaquinta before submitting Conor McGregor in his first defence.
