{"id":340779,"date":"2026-05-26T05:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=340779"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:26:51","slug":"sean-strickland-teases-leaving-promotion-for-money-and-to-fight-jake-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/sean-strickland-teases-leaving-promotion-for-money-and-to-fight-jake-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland teases leaving promotion for money and to fight Jake Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-3814805\">\n<p>Probably the most outstanding UFC fighters of the present era, Sean Strickland, has now teased a surprising jump. Just days after his win over Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328, Strickland has suggested moving to Jake Paul&#8217;s MVP for a financial raise.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland has once more brought up the difficulty of UFC fighter compensation, this time in response to Forbes&#8217; 2026 rating of the highest 50 highest-earning athletes globally. Recently, Forbes released the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nakisa_bidarian\/status\/2058684974237151688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of the highest-paid athletes<\/a> of 2026, where Cristiano Ronaldo topped the list with $235M, and Canelo Alvarez stood second with $160M. The list also had Jake Paul at number 13 with $60M.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a few of the top boxing, soccer, or F1 stars, no UFC athlete was a part of the list. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MostVpromotions\/status\/2058733276706095485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Responding to the situation<\/a>, Strickland suggested making a move to MVP, also often called Most Invaluable Promotions, a boxing and MMA production company founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta leave the UFC and go beat up Jake Paul. That\u2019s it. Cut my contract, UFC. It\u2019s time for me to go away,\u201d Strickland said during a livestream with Nina Drama last Saturday in May. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, when Nina Drama identified that none of Paul&#8217;s opponents made it to the list, Strickland responded, \u201cI&#8217;d make him pay me. But even when I make a fraction of that, I\u2019d be making greater than the UFC is paying me. \u201cI\u2019d f***ing beat the s**t out of Jake Paul. Jake Paul lost against just about a reality star named Tommy [Fury]. He\u2019s not an actual boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strickland, 35, currently holds the UFC Middleweight Championship, and there aren&#8217;t any immediate plans for him to leap promotions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Probably the most outstanding UFC fighters of the present era, Sean Strickland, has now teased a surprising jump.  Just days after his win over Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328, Strickland has suggested moving to Jake Paul&#8217;s MVP for a financial raise.  Strickland has once more brought up the difficulty of UFC fighter compensation, this time in response to Forbes&#8217; 2026 rating of the highest 50 highest-earning athletes globally.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most outstanding UFC fighters of the present era, Sean Strickland, has now teased a surprising jump. Just days after his win over Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 328, Strickland has suggested moving to Jake Paul&#8217;s MVP for a financial raise. Strickland has once more brought up the difficulty of UFC fighter compensation, this time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21048],"tags":[1253,5388,2217,1113,4546,423,3930,3931,888],"class_list":["post-340779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mma","tag-fight","tag-jake","tag-leaving","tag-money","tag-paul","tag-promotion","tag-sean","tag-strickland","tag-teases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340782,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340779\/revisions\/340782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}