Israel Adesanya will bank $500,000 win or lose for his middleweight title defence against Yoel Romero tonight. Adesanya makes the first defence of the title he won by stopping Robert Whittaker in Melbourne last October.
He previously held the interim belt and has opted to face the dangerous Cuban Romero instead of waiting for likely next challenger Paulo Costa to recover from injury.
Romero will earn $350,000 from tonight's fight as he looks to halt a two-fight losing streak. In the co-main event, Weili Zhang will earn at least $100,000 from her strawweight title defence against Joanna Jedrzejzyk with that sum boosted to $200,000 if she retains her title.
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