Att vinna hela The Ultimate Fighter genererar en stor summa pengar, men inte på en gång. Det fick Nate Diaz lära sig efter vinsten av The Ultimate Fighter 5.
Den sexsiffriga summan man får när man vinner The Ultimate Fighter ser väldigt fin ut men den summan får man inte på en gång, vilket Nate Diaz (20-10) inte tänkte på när han vann The Ultimate Fighter 5 för nio år sedan.
“My first UFC contract, I believed I was rich,” sade Diaz till Andy Nesbitt på Fox Sports.
Denna summa betalas ut för varje fight man går, vilket kan ta ett tag. Diaz berättade om hur det gick till då han insåg att han inte var så rik som han trodde att han hade blivit. Han hade bestämt sig för att köpa ett hus till sin mamma och en helt ny Cadillac och det är en ganska underhållande historia.
“If you watch ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ when I won, I look at (UFC President) Dana White and go, ‘I’m rich.’And I really, actually believed that.
I went home, and I had a plan to buy my mom a house and buy a Cadillac. I went home, and I went straight to the dealership, and when I got to the dealership, I was like, ‘Yo, I want a Cadillac, woo-woo-woo.’ I’m talking to this guy who works at the dealership who’s my friend. (I said), ‘I want to buy a Cadillac; we’re looking at houses right now.’ He’s like, ‘I’m proud of you. Cool.’ And then he’s like, ‘This is a Chevy dealership.’”
Man kommer inte långt med $16 000 om man vill ha en ny fin Cadillac. Istället blev det en bil av ett lite mindre fint märke.
“He takes me to this old lady’s Cadillac, and I’m like, ‘I don’t want that Cadillac.’ And he’s like, ‘Well, how much money are you looking to spend?’ I was like, ‘Well, I’ve got $16,000, and I want to spend like, probably ($10,000).’ And he was like, ‘Alright, come over here.’ And we looked at this little Honda Civic.
I was like, dude, I want a Cadillac. I don’t want no Honda Civic. That’s not even cool to me. And then he was like, ‘Nah, we’ll tint the windows, and I’ll get you a DVD player.’ Remember when DVD players came out in cars and they were the (expletive)? I was visualizing it. He was like, ‘We’ll put rims on it, and we’ll get you a thump in the (sound) system).’ I was like, ‘Yeah, that sounds tight. All right, let’s do that.’
So I came back a couple days later, and we had this dorky looking Honda just turned out with tinted windows and 12 (inch speakers) – it thumped hard – and rims on it, and I left with the card … and I was like, ‘Yeah. This is tight. How much is the house?’ I looked at the house, and I had like, $4,000 left. I was like, ‘Wait a minute, this isn’t working out like I planned.’”
Det enda han nu kunde göra var att fixa nya matcher och med tiden lyckades han skapa sig ett rykte om att han var en lika tuff fighter som sin storebror Nick Diaz (26-9, 2 NC) och efter vinsten mot Conor McGregor (19-3) har han blivit större än någonsin och nu väntar returmatchen mot ”Notorious” på UFC 202.
Foto: Vince Cachero
