{"id":265498,"date":"2017-12-11T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265498"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:48:42","slug":"former-ufc-title-challenger-turned-bellator-fighter-michael-mcdonald-dont-win-ufc-bonus-youre-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-mcdonald\/former-ufc-title-challenger-turned-bellator-fighter-michael-mcdonald-dont-win-ufc-bonus-youre-starving\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC Title Challenger turned Bellator Fighter, Michael McDonald: &#8220;If you don\u2019t win a UFC bonus, you\u2019re starving.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;Mayday&#8221; McDonald was at a time one of the UFC&#8217;s brightest young stars. At 135 lbs, his power and speed seemed unmatched for almost everyone he fought. McDonald went on an impressive eight-fight winning that consisted of six finishes(five KO\/TKOs and one submission) before earning his first and only UFC title shot against the then interim champion, Renan Barao. McDonald would alternate wins and losses following his loss to Barao before asking for and receiving his release from the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Still just the young age of twenty-six years old, McDonald is seeming much happier with his new Bellator deal than he was with his UFC deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/12\/11\/16750922\/michael-mcdonald-ufc-uses-bonus-system-like-a-gun-to-your-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He spoke to MMA Fighting<\/a> recently and didn&#8217;t hold back when discussing the difference in their contracts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFrom my very first interaction with Bellator they\u2019ve made it clear that they believe in me and they\u2019re willing to show it, and I\u2019m very appreciative of that,\u201d McDonald told MMAFighting.com. They believed in me and were willing to give me what the UFC wasn\u2019t and because of that, I feel very valued. I don\u2019t feel pressure in the sense that I have to show them <\/em>that<em> I\u2019m good and that they were right to hire me. I\u2019m really not feeling a whole lot of pressure coming into this, even personally.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith the UFC\u2019s bonus system and how it\u2019s structured, if you win and you get a bonus you\u2019re doing good, you\u2019re comfortable in life. If you don\u2019t win it, you\u2019re starving. A lot of the guys in the UFC are at that place and it\u2019s not a very good place to be,\u201d he explained. \u201cNow I\u2019m with Bellator and it\u2019s not the way it is and I\u2019m very happy about that. The bonus structure isn\u2019t applied here with Bellator and because of <\/em>that<em> the base payments can be a bit better. \u201cIn the UFC, they used to use the bonuses against you, they used them like a gun to your head. They would say, \u2018We don\u2019t want to raise your contract because your last fight was this or that\u2019 or, \u2018all you have to do is win some bonuses, if you win some bonuses you\u2019ll be fine&#8217;. It was used more <\/em>like<em> a weapon than a reward, and I\u2019m honestly glad that I don\u2019t have to deal with that anymore.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McDonald even mentioned how it may have affected him in his last fight with John Lineker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m happy I made the decision but I guess part of that is me putting away my pride as a competitor, but sometimes that still comes out,\u201d stated McDonald. In my fight with John Lineker, I didn\u2019t want to take him down. I wanted to show the world that my hands were better than John\u2019s. The fight showed his chin was better than mine, we were both hitting each other. My pride as a competitor can still come out, but as a businessman, if I did that over again I would have thought, \u2018Mike, you\u2019re a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a fantastic wrestler \u2013 put this guy down and put him where he is least comfortable.\u2019&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mymmanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-12.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Modesto, California native, McDonald is set to make his Bellator debut this Friday at Bellator 191 when he takes on Peter Ligier in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 12\/11\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;Mayday&#8221; McDonald was at a time one of the UFC&#8217;s brightest young stars. 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