Former UFC heavyweight contender, Brendan Schaub has revealed any promoter seeking to guide him in a single closing struggle, must cough up at the least $5,000,000 to ensure that him to snap his 2015 retirement from fight sports activities.
Schaub, a finalist on The Final Fighter, and a ranked contender throughout his heavyweight tenure with the UFC, most lately featured 10 years in the past in a primary spherical knockout loss to Hawaiian heavyweight veteran, Travis Browne within the pair’s grudge match.
The defeat got here as his second consecutively, following a controversial break up determination loss to former undisputed champion, Andrei Arlovski.
And infamously urged by shut good friend and long-time color-commentator, Joe Rogan to contemplate his future in fight sports activities, Schaub has but to struggle since confirming his retirement again in 2015.
Brendan Schaub reveals struggle purse which might make him think about return
Nevertheless, this week, the newly-minted GFL color-commentator claimed he would entertain a return to combating if he netted a struggle purse within the area of $5,000,000.
“$5 million, $5 million would be the marker.” Brendan Schaub stated on his podcast a couple of potential return to combating.. “$5 million to fight. $5 million, just $5 million. It’d be a lot longer than [six months for me to get ready], I haven’t fought in how many years? Six months ain’t enough, bubba. [A year of training] at least. I also have to get off all the sh*t I’m on, so you have to get off that and get your system back. That’s what I’m saying, I’d have to stop everything and get off all the sh*t I’m on.”
“Promoters are going, ‘Oh, we’re good’. It’s tough to get punched in the face,” Brendan Schaub continued. “The CTE, what does that look like? I’d have to spar with professionals…It would have to be in MMA, I wouldn’t do boxing.”
