After Israel Adesanya’s impressive win over the legendary Anderson Silva at UFC 234 earlier this month, he said in his post-fight interview that he should receive a percentage of the pay-per-view sales. After some time to think about it, he's standing by that assertion.
UFC 234 was originally meant to be headlined by Australian middleweight champion Robert Whittaker who was scheduled to defend his 185-pound belt against Kelvin Gastelum, but Whittaker was forced to withdraw just a day before the fight to undergo surgery on a hernia. The last-minute withdrawal left the Nigerian-born New Zealander Adesanya as half of the main event, opposite Silva, the greatest middleweight of all time.