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Until last week, surging welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal was involved in a heated contract dispute with the UFC.<\/p>\n

When Gilbert Burns withdrew from his welterweight title fight with Kamaru Usman due to a positive COVID-19 test, Masvidal was offered the opportunity to step in. Miraculously, he and the UFC were able to squash their differences and negotiate a new UFC contract<\/a>. It wasn’t quite what he had in mind, but he admits he’s satisfied for the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and my team know what I deserve,\u201d Masvidal told\u00a0ESPN<\/a> after striking his new deal with the UFC. \u201cSo when I got undercut and lowballed, alright, cool, no problem. We\u2019ll see what happens. I told my manager and several people [\u2026] \u2018watch, at the last moment, they\u2019re going to call me back and some craziness is going to happen.\u2019 I told several people that are very, very close to me, and bam, that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I didn\u2019t get exactly what I wanted, but it\u2019s very, very close,\u201d Masvidal added. \u201cI\u2019m happy, more than anything, because I get to break this guy\u2019s face, then get paid for it. But one thing that I\u2019m not gonna do, which I\u2019ve done through a long part of my career is get underpaid. That\u2019s not going to happen no more. Not from here going forward.”<\/p>\n

During a scrum with the media shortly after completing his grueling, short-notice weight cut for UFC 251, Masvidal was asked if he had any advice for young fighters who might find themselves in similar situations.<\/p>\n

While he admitted a proper answer would require more time and thought than he was able to give at that particular moment, he did have some advice off the cuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna need a lot longer than five minutes for that answer, but I\u2019ll give you a short one,\u201d Masvidal said (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cStick to your guns, don\u2019t let none of these devils and demons hold you down. I\u2019ve been here for a while, it\u2019s taken me a while, but I don\u2019t let no oppressor get the better of me. If they didn\u2019t come to the numbers that I wanted [for the short-notice Usman fight], I would have been right in Miami, Florida, sitting on my couch, eating sushi, playing video games. They came correct and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. That\u2019s the only thing I can tell young fighters coming up, know your value.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the young guys just don\u2019t know their value,” Masvidal added. “It\u2019s not their fault. I didn\u2019t know my value when I was 19, 20 years old. Someone offered me $2,000, I\u2019d kill a gorilla. It\u2019s tough as these kids are coming up, but all I can tell them is know your value and stick to your guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of this advice from Jorge Masvidal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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