The UFC has long gone above and beyond its contractual obligations to pay fighters when their bout is canceled through no fault of their own. But as we’ve already seen a handful of times in 2018, the amount the promotion pays in such situations can very dramatically. Onetime welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves on Thursday told MMAjunkie that like many fighters, he assumed that making weight for a fight was reason enough to claim the full contracted show money and was a bit surprised to only get half that amount when he recently found himself in such a predicament
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Thiago Alves OK with half-pay from canceled UFC bout, would like to see consistency – MMA Junkie