“I have a very good contract” – Koreshkov about participating in the PFL Grand Prix with a million dollar prize pool

Russian welterweight Andrei Koreshkov in an interview with , he spoke about the financial terms of the contract with the PFL league after the organization acquired the Bellator promotion and reached new deals with fighters.

Koreshkov, 33, competed in the Bellator promotion from 2012 to 2023, winning the organization’s Welterweight Grand Prix twice and capturing the championship belt. In 2023, it became known that the PFL league was purchasing Bellator and would offer new deals to most of the fighters. Koreshkov competed in the Welterweight Grand Prix and will have his first fight against Gasan Umalatov in Chicago on April 19.

—Are you starting to fight in the Grand Prix, where the winner can win a million dollars?

– Yes.

— Can you imagine this amount in rubles and where to spend it in principle?

– Yes, I’m not going to do that for now. For what? It’s too early to think about it, to imagine anything.

— Let’s be clear, some fighters entered the PFL from the Russian leagues and their base contract for the first Grand Prix fight called for a payment of around 10 or 12 thousand dollars. You had a very good cachet for fighting in Bellator. Have these conditions remained?

— I won’t divulge the details of the contract, but I will say that the contract is good.

— That is, do not think that you will receive 10+10 thousand dollars for the first fight, but that you will have a chance to win a million?

– No, you don’t need to think like that. My contract is very good. As I understand it, in principle, more or less famous Bellator fighters with some results, former champions were re-signed to the PFL with decent contracts. Alexey Zhernakov, my manager, did this for me, he tried and did everything very well,” Koreshkov told .

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