Alistair Overeem thinks Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather are lying about how much they get paid

LOS ANGELES — Floyd Mayweather is the highest paid boxer of all time, banking hundreds of millions in fight purses. Conor McGregor is behind Mayweather in numbers of zeroes, but is doing well in his own right in MMA, saying he has made more than $10 million for his last two UFC fights.

There’s no doubt those two men are making bank. Just how much, though, Alistair Overeem isn’t sure. The UFC heavyweight thinks both Mayweather and McGregor are fudging the numbers — he doesn’t believe they’re making as much as they say they are.

“My answer to that, to Mayweather and to Conor, let me see some bank statements,” Overeem said Monday at a media lunch in Downtown LA. “You can talk, you can say it, you can put it out there in tweets, but let me see a bank statement that says UFC wired X amount of money, because it’s always going to be this way. People lie. It’s the 21st century. Social media is fake.”

Overeem, 36, will be competing for some gold next week in a UFC heavyweight title bout against champion Stipe Miocic at UFC 203 in Cleveland. It’ll be the second fight on his new contract with the UFC, which he signed in February.

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