Ethnic Kazakh UFC fighters and fighters from Kazakhstan earned a total of $288 thousand or 126.55 million tenge (before taxes). Such data was published by the SportsDaily.com and analyzed by Vesti.kz correspondents. They decided to include not only fighters who are citizens of Kazakhstan but ethnic Kazakhs living in other countries as well.
Damir Ismagulov from Russia never entered the UFC arena without a flag of Kazakhstan. Whereas Sairan Nurdanbek from China communicates to his fans on Instagram in English, Chinese, and Kazakh.
As for the world stars, Irishman McGregor has pulled off the biggest score of the year. He earned $10.02 million for his two early lost fights this year. And that's without counting the interest from TV broadcasts sold, as well as McGregor's own numerous sponsorship contracts.