UFC to pay out fighter bonuses in Bitcoin for its upcoming PPV events

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the fashionable mixed martial arts organization, volition beryllium paying retired Fan bonuses to its fighters successful Bitcoin (BTC).

The instrumentality bonus volition beryllium paid retired to the top-three fighters of the pay-per-view lawsuit successful relation with its authoritative cryptocurrency level spouse Crypto.com. There volition beryllium a full of 3 Bitcoin instrumentality bonuses of the nighttime ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. Fans from astir the globe tin ballot for the BTC bonuses of the nighttime connected the authoritative Crypto.com website connected the time of the event.

The archetypal Bitcoin instrumentality bonus volition beryllium introduced during the upcoming “UFC 273: Volkanovski vs the Korean zombie” PPV lawsuit scheduled for April 9. The Bitcoin instrumentality bonus volition beryllium an summation to the accepted Fight of the Night and Performance bonuses awarded to UFC athletes.

UFC president Dana White lauded their caller relation with Crypto.com, saying:

"This caller Fan Bonus of the Night is an awesome mode to get fans much engaged successful our events portion rewarding the fighters for bad-ass performances.”

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Sports and crypto person shown 1 of the champion synergies implicit the past mates of years, with respective large sporting companies and events partnering with emerging crypto tech. UFC being a planetary sporting marque was among the archetypal to integrate crypto-based promotions and adjacent inked a $175 cardinal sponsorship woody with Crypto.com successful July past year.

UFC fighters rather akin to NFL stars person besides opted for BTC and crypto paychecks implicit fiat payouts. The large mixed martial creation sports institution has besides stake large connected nonfungible tokens arsenic the steadfast had launched its archetypal authoritative NFT successful November past year.

Apart from UFC, different large sporting companies specified arsenic Formula One, NBA and respective Soccer clubs astir the satellite person on-boarded crypto companies arsenic their large marque partners implicit the past fewer years.