Georges St-Pierre is undoubtedly one of the greatest combat sports athletes to have ever stepped inside the octagon. Owing to the fact that The Canadian born welterweight fighter had a record of 20-2 and won world titles in different weight classes in his 14-year illustrious UFC career.
Consequently, The former UFC champion was amongst the top highest-paid fighters in the promotion. However, despite earning a tremendous amount of money from his MMA career, GSP had to beg for a coffee at McDonald’s. This incident took place a few days ago and the Canadian born fighter posted a video on Instagram where he narrated the entire story.
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“Earlier this week I’m going to the McDonald’s to order a vanilla coffee. And after I ordered it I realised that I forgot my wallet at home. So when it’s time to pay I look down and because I have no wallet I have like four dollars and a change. The woman looks at me and goes Hey, you’re Georges St Pierre and you’re begging for coffee. I was like yes it was freaking embarrassing and yeah now I have to go back and pay my debt.”
How much money did Georges St-Pierre earn from his UFC career?
Over the course of 14 years in the UFC, Georges St-Pierre had defeated several big names and made his way to the top of the UFC Pound for Pound rankings. Consequently, the Canadian fighter was a massive PPV star and earned a significant amount of money from his fights.
So let us take a look at some of GSP’s career earnings in the UFC. According to a report by Sportsdaily, the Canadian superstar made somewhere around $7,037,000 from his 22 fights in the UFC. However, in an interview GSP had revealed that those numbers are just for stepping inside the octagon and he has earned in millions after re-signing the contract in 2008.
He disclosed his purse details for his highly anticipated comeback fight against Michael Bisping in 2017. The former UFC champion revealed that he amassed $10 million for his middleweight title fight against Michael Bisping. This figure includes the sponsorship payout and the PPV sales cut.
From this statement it is certain that GSP has earned a significant amount of money from the UFC. However, the PPV sales cut and sponsorship payouts of each fights are not available.