Raul Rosas Jr Reasons His Post-Fight Bonus Request: “It just came out”

In a candid interview with MMA Fighting, Raul Rosas Jr shed some light on asking for a bonus post-fight. As someone who enjoys finishing fights, Rosas said that he always asks for bonuses after finishing fights in a decisive fashion.

However, he noted that a unanimous decision did not fit in this context. Rosas did feel like what he showed in the octagon did not earn him a bonus, but it made sense when he said that an audience was present for the early prelims mainly because of him – no fighter had a fan following at such a young age.

Raul Rosas Jr on asking for a fight bonus

In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, Raul Rosas Jr explained why he asked for a bonus after only claiming a unanimous decision win.

“It was just the heat of the moment,” Rosas said, as quoted by mmafighting.com. “Since I’m used to getting finishes and asking for it after, it just came out. The way that my argument to say that I would deserve it — don’t get me wrong it was a unanimous decision so obviously I’m OK with not getting it because I should have got a finish — but if I would have got it, my argument would be the people showed up because of me,The event was packed because of me.

They were there early because I was on the prelims. I’m not trying to be cocky but a lot of people came to watch me fight. With them putting me on the first fight on the prelims, I made a lot of people show up and tune in on their TV’s right away.

That would have been my argument for the $50g’s but obviously I agreed, I didn’t do enough to get those $50g’s”. .