Report: GSP wants $50 million to fight Anderson Silva

  • Wanna Join? New users you can now register lightning fast using your Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Nov 21, 2012
489
497
63
#1
During the latest episode of The MMA Beat, Mike Straka dropped some news via "somebody close to St. Pierre" that the French-Canadian wants to get paid a significant amount of cash to battle the 185-pound king.

"I was told by somebody very close to Georges that Georges today makes close to $8 million a fight. So to fight Anderson Silva he's going to ask for $50 million."

I'm no mathematician nor an economist but I do know for a fact that that's a sh-t ton of money. Now how did that number come to be?

"Because he said that Georges has 10 fights left in his career at $8 million a fight. But he believes that Anderson could actually hurt him, could physically hurt him and end his career. So to take that chance he wants $50 million and that's exactly the number he's going to go to Dana White with."

That's some compellingly cold logic. "I'll take the fight but because he might kill my career, I want to be paid as though I never took the fight and went about my career as it was" makes sense here.


Report: GSP wants $50 million to fight Anderson Silva - Mixed Martial Arts News
 
Props: IronLungs420

WXS STOMP3R

SENIOR GANG MEMBER
Feb 27, 2006
6,313
1,454
113
48
#3
im sure hes just trying to leverage...and cant hate on a motherfucker trying to get paid...but 50 million for an mma fight aint gonna happen...ironlungs is right...he aint trying to lock horns with Andy
 
Props: IronLungs420

CZAR

Sicc OG
Aug 25, 2003
7,269
1,375
0
52
#4
I knew that mark PSG didnt want to see Da Spider! He would get his cranium cracked! What a beeitch! He know aint no way in hell he getting anything close to fitty mill! Got Em!!
 

K.C.

Sicc OG
Jul 28, 2012
176
519
93
43
#12
The Silva vs GSP fight has never interested me, Silva is a huge MW and is already at a huge advantage as it is in his own weight class. Why should he be calling out a welterweight? Especially with Jon Jones in the picture? To me it seems absolutely ridiculous that he isn't frothing at the mouth over a fight with Jones. That would further immortalize his legacy as the greatest MMA fighter ever and probably be the greatest fight ever in the UFC, on some Ali Frazier type shit.

If the Jones vs Silva fight never happens I think I might be done with mma, it has turned into a fucking circus and has become rather stale anymore.