{"id":39068,"date":"2026-07-01T03:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Eddie-Hearn-vs-Michael-Bisping-UFC-pay-debate-over-Tom-Aspinall-201704"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:35:56","slug":"eddie-hearn-vs-michael-bisping-ufc-pay-debate-over-tom-aspinall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/eddie-hearn-vs-michael-bisping-ufc-pay-debate-over-tom-aspinall\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn vs. Michael Bisping: UFC pay debate over Tom Aspinall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eddie-hearn-vs-michael-bisping-ufc-pay-debate-over-tom-aspinall.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn and former <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> champ <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michael-Bisping-10196\">Michael<br \/>\nBisping<\/a> have engaged in a war of words over the UFC\u2019s pay<br \/>\nstructure. With Hearn now working with heavyweight champion<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tom-Aspinall-65231\">Tom<br \/>\nAspinall<\/a>, his recent comments have drawn a reaction from<br \/>\nBisping.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, 2026, during an <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hodDZNoNChc\">appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>, Hearn accused<br \/>\nBisping of being too close to the UFC to fairly talk about fighter<br \/>\npay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people that are on the payroll,\u201d Hearn said, \u201cThese are<br \/>\npeople who have been suppressed themselves, and these are people<br \/>\nwho don\u2019t have any backbone about them. Michael Bisping should be<br \/>\nashamed of what is being proposed to Tom Aspinall to be in a fight<br \/>\nlike <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ciryl-Gane-293973\">Ciryl Gane<\/a><br \/>\nwith that amount of money that is in the pot. He is a fighter. He<br \/>\nshould stand up for what\u2019s right for fighters.\u201d He added, \u201cSo what<br \/>\nare you saying, Bisping? \u2018Do as you\u2019re told, shut up, take your<br \/>\nmoney. That\u2019s all you\u2019re worth?\u2019\u201d He proceeded to challenge Bisping<br \/>\nto debate.<\/p>\n<p>Bisping has now responded to Hearn\u2019s comments. Speaking on his<br \/>\npodcast, the commentator said that he did not know what Aspinall<br \/>\nwas getting paid and called out Hearn for his comments.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ywlK7hl56w?si=8_a_je-NS_jLbWaq&amp;start=3714\" 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<h2>Michael Bisping responds to Eddie Hearn over UFC fighter pay<br \/>\ncomments<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to have a debate? I\u2019m not having a debate online, but I\u2019m<br \/>\nvery happy, next time I\u2019m in London, to sit down face-to-face,<br \/>\nman-to-man, and have a conversation like that,\u201d Bisping said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie Hearn was talking s**t about me and about Felder too,<br \/>\nreally, but he only named me,\u201d he continued, \u201cWhy should I be<br \/>\nashamed? I have no idea the money that Tom is getting paid. I\u2019m not<br \/>\na part of that. All I ever said, and I think anyone with half an<br \/>\nounce of intelligence can see it, is that Eddie Hearn is muddying<br \/>\nthe waters with something between him and Dana White and his<br \/>\nperceived war and beef that he has with Dana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asserting that he did not mention a word about Aspinall\u2019s<br \/>\ncompensation and hoped that the fighter got more than his fair<br \/>\nshare, Bisping added, \u201cIt\u2019s absolute horse s**t what Eddie Hearn is<br \/>\nsaying. And he wants to have a debate? Eddie, all you little s**ts<br \/>\nout there, I don\u2019t want you to get it twisted: I care about<br \/>\nfighters. We care deeply about this sport, and this is why we are<br \/>\ncommentators. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall will look to unify the heavyweight titles when he returns<br \/>\nagainst Gane, but no official announcement has been made about the<br \/>\ntitle unification bout as yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn and former Ultimate Fighting Championship champ Michael Bisping have engaged in a war of words over the UFC\u2019s pay structure. With Hearn now working with heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, his recent comments have drawn a reaction from Bisping. On June 24, 2026, during an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, Hearn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39068","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\/39068","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=39068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}