{"id":37277,"date":"2026-03-18T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Mike-Perry-says-Nate-Diaz-fight-will-be-biggest-payday-of-career-200504"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:11:54","slug":"mike-perry-says-nate-diaz-fight-will-be-biggest-payday-of-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/mike-perry-says-nate-diaz-fight-will-be-biggest-payday-of-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Perry says Nate Diaz fight will be biggest payday of career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mike-perry-says-nate-diaz-fight-will-be-biggest-payday-of-career.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mike-Perry-176179\">Mike<br \/>\nPerry<\/a> is set to earn the biggest paycheck of his fighting<br \/>\ncareer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perry is scheduled to fight fellow <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> alum <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Nate-Diaz-11451\">Nate Diaz<\/a> on<br \/>\nMost Valuable Promotions\u2019 <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/Most-Valuable-Promotions-Rousey-vs-Carano-111723\"><br \/>\nfirst MMA card<\/a> on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles,<br \/>\nCalifornia. The event, which will be broadcast on Netflix, also<br \/>\nfeatures fights like <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ronda-Rousey-73073\">Ronda<br \/>\nRousey<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Gina-Carano-16535\">Gina Carano<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Francis-Ngannou-152341\">Francis<br \/>\nNgannou<\/a> vs. <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Philipe-Lins-61438\">Philipe<br \/>\nLins<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Next is Always Best<\/h2>\n<p>Perry revealed that the Diaz fight will be the biggest payday of<br \/>\nhis fighting career. The former UFC fighter <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jedigoodman\/status\/2033969935299580081\">answered in the affirmative<\/a> when Ariel Helwani asked<br \/>\nhim if it would be the biggest paycheck of his career so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next one\u2019s always the best one. This is the next one,\u201d Perry<br \/>\nsaid. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying this for 20 years.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perry fought in the UFC welterweight division from 2016 to 2021,<br \/>\ngoing 7-8. Perry parted ways with the promotion in 2021 and joined<br \/>\nBare Knuckle Fighting Championship, where he found the proverbial<br \/>\nsecond wind of his career. Perry has defeated the likes of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Page-91937\">Michael<br \/>\nPage<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Eddie-Alvarez-9265\">Eddie<br \/>\nAlvarez<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Luke-Rockhold-23345\">Luke<br \/>\nRockhold<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jeremy-Stephens-12179\">Jeremy<br \/>\nStephens<\/a> during his BKFC tenure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tahGQT3VIWQ?si=PZ7wHVuHWBXx44ke\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Perry is set to earn the biggest paycheck of his fighting career.&nbsp; Perry is scheduled to fight fellow UFC alum Nate Diaz on Most Valuable Promotions\u2019 first MMA card on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. The event, which will be broadcast on Netflix, also features fights like Ronda Rousey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}