Jim Miller says Dana White's five-fight deal "never happened" days before UFC 334
Miller told MMA Junkie he has not signed a bout agreement for his UFC 334 fight with Terrance McKinney: "At the moment, I think it's just all verbal."
Jim Miller has no signed contract going into his fight with Terrance McKinney at Madison Square Garden, and says the five-fight deal Dana White announced for him has yet to be done.
Asked by MMA Junkie whether he had a contract or a verbal agreement, Miller said: "At the moment, I think it's just all verbal." He confirmed he had not signed a bout agreement.
On the deal White announced, Miller said: "I'm gonna be perfectly honest, it never happened. It hasn't happened yet." He said he had been told backstage "we got to get you to 50", and that he thought White then spoke as if the contract had been agreed, although "we hadn't even really talked about it." Miller added that "nobody did anything, you know, wrong".
Miller said talks are ongoing and he is confident the deal will get done. He said he had renegotiated before, getting a new deal before his 40th UFC fight, against Donald Cerrone, "literally like at weigh-ins".
Miller made his UFC debut at UFC 89 in October 2008 and has fought at UFC 100, 200 and 300. His last fight was a first-round guillotine win over Jared Gordon at UFC 328 in May.
UFC 334 is headlined by Ciryl Gane against Josh Hokit. UK start times are on the UFC 334 event page.
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