Niko Price Biography
Niko Price is an American mixed martial artist as of 2019 competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
After going undefeated (9-0) as an amateur, he made his professional MMA debut in February 2012. Before joining the UFC Price amassed a record of 8-0 with 7 of his 8 wins coming by stoppages.
Niko Price Age
Niko Price is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He was born on September 29. 1989 in Cape Coral, FL. Niko Price is 29 years old as of 2019.
Niko Price Family
He is a native of the United States who was born in Cape Coral, Florida, United States. Niko holds American nationality and belongs to the white ethnic group.
Niko’s parents always supported him in his career growth. He has not disclosed more details regarding his’s father, mother, brothers, and sisters. The information is under review and will be updated soon.
Niko Price Wife
He is married to his lovely girlfriend Erica Price. The couple joined together in a lavish wedding ceremony which was attended by Niko friends and family.
Apart from this, the couple started dating a long time ago before their wedding. He and his wife are blessed with four children: Mia, 6, Ella, 5, Asher, 3 and Micah, eight months as of 2019.
Niko is very much passionate about his profession and once he told in an interview that “I’m not looking to kill anyone,” “I just want to beat somebody up and get a paycheck. He took six, unanswered hammer fists.”
Niko Price is an active user of social media and he connects with his fans via social media. He regularly updates about his professional and personal life on hos social media.
Don’t tell UFC on FOX 27’s Niko Price – or his four kids – what they can do
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Considering he has four kids and a desire to fight six times a year, Niko Price’s pre-fight quote seemingly works on two levels: “I’m down to bang, man.”
Price (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC), 28, meets fellow welterweight George Sullivan (17-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC) on Saturday’s UFC on FOX 27 fight card. It closes out the UFC Fight Pass-streamed early prelims prior to additional bouts on FS1 and FOX at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C.
It’s Price’s first fight since a late-October submission setback to Vicente Luque, which spoiled Price’s perfect 10-0 mark. However, Price said he didn’t balk at a fairly quick around. In fact, three months between fights may even be too long for him.
Niko Price Net Worth | Niko Price Salary
Niko Price is a professional mixed martial artist who as of 2019 competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s welterweight division.
He is known by his ring name “The Hybrid”. He is a brown belt holder in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Niko Price has an estimated Net Worth of $2 million dollars as of 2019.
Niko is receiving a salary of around $141,000 annually as of 2019. He also receives a decent amount from various sponsorships and endorsements.
There are different sources of income for MMA fighters like endorsement deals and they also receive a good bonus and incentives.
The bonus for the “fight of the night” and “performance of the night” gets $50,000. Price holds three times performance of the night so he has earned a sum of $150,000 from his “performance of the night”.
Apart from this, he is reported to possess several personal assets like cars and houses but the exact details are under review.
Niko Price BodyH Measurements |Niko Price Height
The famous MMA fighter stands at a height of 6 feet”1.83 m” tall and he currently has a weight of about 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st).
Niko Price Ultimate Fighting Championship
He made his promotional debut for the UFC at UFC 207 against Brandon Thatch. He won the fight via submission in the first round.
Price next fight came at UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie against Alex Morono. He won the fight via knockout in the second round; however, this was later overturned to a no-contest after he tested positive for marijuana.
Price next faced Alan Jouban at UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno on August 5. 2017. He won the fight via TKO in round one. The win also earned Price his first Performance of the Night bonus award.
Price was to face Luan Chagas on October 28. 2017, at UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Machida. On October 6, it was announced that Luan Chagas fractured his foot and pulled out of the bout, and is replaced by Vicente Luque.
Price lost the fight via D’Arce variation of the brabo in Brazil or D’Arce choke submission after a combination of strikes had him appearing out on his feet in round two.
Price faced George Sullivan January 27. 2018 at UFC on Fox: Jacaré vs. Brunson 2. He won the fight by rear-naked choke submission in the second round.
Price was expected to face Belal Muhammad on June 1. 2018 at UFC Fight Night 131. However, Price was removed from the bout on May 22 for undisclosed reasons and replaced by promotional newcomer Chance Rencountre.
Price faced Randy Brown on July 14. 2018 at UFC Fight Night 133. He won the fight via knockout in the second round after landing several hammer fists from the bottom to knock Brown out. This win earned him the Performance of the Night award.
Price faced Abdul Razak Alhassan on September 8. 2018 at UFC 228. He lost the fight via knockout in the first round.
Price faced Tim Means on March 9. 2019, at UFC on ESPN+ 4.He won via knockout in the first round, becoming the first man to finish Means by knockout in MMA competition. This win earned him the Performance of the Night award.
Price faced Geoff Neal on July 27. 2019 at UFC 240. He lost the fight via technical knockout in round two.
Niko Price VS Geoff Neal
Geoff Neal on ‘Wild One’ vs. Niko Price: ‘He’s Hard to Hit Without Getting One Back’
Neal (12-2), one of the hottest welterweight prospects in the sport, knocked out fellow contender Niko Price 2:39 into the second frame.
“Handz of Steel” rocked Price with punches and wound up finishing him off while within Price’s guard. That sort of power is hard to come by, but Neal has it spades.
The fight wasn’t perfect, though, as Price had Neal on wobbly legs more than once. The two swung wildly in spurts and each man had his adversary on the verge of being blasted into oblivion. But Neal’s chin held up and he got the stoppage win anyway.
“It was a wild one,” Neal said after his conquest. “I really kind of expected it fighting a guy like Niko. He’s hard to hit without getting one back. I couldn’t throw more than one shot without him throwing back. I decided to just throw some punches.
“I think he dropped me twice,” he added. “But I was able to get my wits together and put the fight where I wanted it. I knew he was only a couple more shots to being out and the ref stepped in.”
Neal’s corner didn’t want him to slug it out with Price and they made that clear during the fight. Even after he dropped his foe and landed some hellish punches in Price’s guard, his corner was loudly screaming for him to get out of that position.
They wanted him back upon his feet, to take his time and let the knockout happen, but either he didn’t hear them or knew what was about to happen.
“It’s good to get that experience against someone who’s going to try and take my head off at all times,” Neal said. “It was a good fight for me. The game plan was to stay on the outside and pick him apart. I had to take some shots to get in.”
The obvious question was who he wants next and when, but Neal, knowing he’s still far away from taking on the best there is at 170 pounds, played it cool.
Confident as always, the Fortis MMA pupil knows his time will come and he’ll be prepared. “Right now, I just want to heal up and get back in the gym,” he stated. “Whatever comes next, I’m ready for it.”
UFC 240 bonus winners: Geoff Neal’s vicious TKO finish leads $50K winners
The action delivered in waves last night (Sat., July 27, 2019) at UFC 240 live on ESPN+ PPV from inside Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as Max Holloway successfully defended his featherweight title for the third-straight time when he knocked off Frankie Edgar in the main event.
In addition to Holloway’s return to the UFC win column, Cris Cyborg avenged her recent loss with a hard-fought co-main event fight against Canadian contender Felicia Spencer, Geoff Neal continued his winning ways with a nasty TKO finish over welterweight Niko Price, promising featherweight striker Hakeem Dawodu made good on his ESPN
“Prelims” bid with a brutal finish over Yoshinori Horie, and flyweight contenders Deiveson Figueiredo and Alexandre Pantoja battled it out on the undercard in one of the most exciting 125-pound affairs of the year.
Niko Price VS Tim Means
Niko Price was excited to draw Tim Means, but for this money? ‘I’ll fight a heavyweight, who cares
WICHITA, Kan. – As you may have noticed, high-level athletes tend to not particularly enjoy the feeling of losing. And, for fighters who put on weeks of training into a camp, having that happen in mere seconds can be a particularly frustrating experience.
So how did Niko Price get over that 43-second knockout loss to Abdul Razak Alhassan at UFC 228?
Well, it’s quite simple, really.
“I’m not over it until I win again,” Price said today. “So, you know, I’m going to go work on that.”
And that is just what Price (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) is going to try to do when he meets Tim Means (28-10-1 MMA, 10-7 UFC) on Saturday at UFC on ESPN+ 4, six months after the quick loss.
The slight layoff, Price says, was intentional. After doing camps for his three 2018 bouts – and another one for a fight with Belal Muhammad that didn’t come to fruition – Price felt “sluggish” heading into his fight with Alhassan and decided to give his tired body some rest.
Taking the time to “rebuild me and get better” also meant changing some things in his camp. Other than getting new coaching staff and “bouncing around a bunch of gyms” other than his own, Price also decided to reassess his nutrition.
As a result, Price was only two pounds away from the 171-pound mark the day before weigh-ins– as opposed to the 186 pounds he sat at on the same stage of his previous fight week.
“I was always so confident because I can lose weight so easy,” Price said. “Right now, I’m 173. So I’m going to go eat some fish, some chicken, and some fruit and I’m going to be great. And then I’ll cut weight in the morning, for maybe 20 minutes in the jacuzzi.”
As you might be able to notice by watching the video, Price is excited about his return, which streams live on ESPN+ from INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita. And that also has to do with the person who’s going to be standing across the cage from him – so much so that Price didn’t even have to hear Means’ last name before immediately agreeing to it.
“This is going to be a great fight,” Price said. “We’re going to get in there, we’re both going to fight. That’s the great thing: It’s not going to be boring. When we get in there, we’re both going to meet in the center and then it’s going to go down.”
Considering both fighters’ styles and track records, “boring” really isn’t a word most would associate with the match-up. Price has been hearing the word “violence” from everyone and he also believes that it’s bound to happen – even if he isn’t planning on bleeding.
Even if this is not a match-up that most fans would complain about, though, it’s not necessarily one that many were expecting to happen right now. After all, Means is a veteran who just recently scored a big win, while Price is coming off a loss.
But results, Price points out, aren’t all that goes into this particular line of work.
“Oh, they (the UFC brass) like me,” Price said. “You know I’m going to get in there and bang. We’re going to put some shows on. You don’t have to win to be great in this sport. You’ve just got to show up and fight. I like fighting, so I’m going to fight anyone.
“I was telling my coaches in the back, I was like, ‘I’ll fight anybody. For this money? I’m getting there. I’ll fight a heavyweight. Who cares? As long as my kids eat, my family’s taken care of and God directs me that way, I’m doing it.”
Niko Price VS Abdul Razak Alhassan
Abdul Razak Alhassan: Niko Price being disrespectful at UFC 228 weigh-ins didn’t get to me
DALLAS – With 10 first-round knockouts in his 10 wins in professional MMA, we’ve yet to see the first part of Abdul Razak Alhassan’s “Judo Thunder” nickname in action inside a cage.
But Alhassan (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), who dispatched Niko Price (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) in a mere 43 seconds at Saturday’s UFC 228, has a perfectly good explanation for why that is.
Before making a move to MMA, the welterweight first went into kickboxing. There, he found out he had power in both his hands and his legs.
Maybe, Alhassan ponders, he could have used his judo more had he started MMA right away. But since that wasn’t the case?
“Nobody wants to fight for 15 minutes,” Alhassan said after his pay-per-view main card bout at American Airlines Center in Dallas. “Come on.
We all just want to get in there and get out. So if I know I can throw my hands and get you out quickly, I’ll just do it. But when the time comes, and I have to use my judo, I’ll use it.”
As it stands, it’s when things get a little crazy that Alhassan feels in his element. Sure, he trains to learn how to back away and move away from strikes.
But “when the person stands right there and I start throwing,” that’s when he finds his openings. And while that can be a dangerous strategy, it’s one that seems to be paying dividends.
That aggressiveness toward his opponents, however, seems to begin and end in a cage. Alhassan is uninterested in trash-talking and insulting his opponents before entering it. So when he went to shake Price’s hand during weigh-ins, only to have his opponent fail to do to the same, he took it as disrespect.
“He didn’t want to shake my hand, fine – I’m not going to say anything about it,” Alhassan said. “But I know all my coaches, my friends, everybody was really upset about that. They were sending me messages, you know: ‘Beat him up for disrespecting you.’
I’m like, ‘I’m for sure going to do that.’ When we got to the back, his coach actually came to me and he’s like, ‘No disrespect, that’s how he is, he doesn’t like shaking people’s hand before the fight. But he’s not trying to disrespect you or anything like that.”
But Alhassan says he didn’t take it personally. Afterward, he said, Price came up to him to congratulate him on the win and make sure he knew he wasn’t a sore loser and meant no disrespect. And as proof that there was no ill will, Alhassan said the two could even end up grabbing a bite to eat together that night.
In any case, it’s clear that whatever transpired outside the cage wasn’t enough to faze Alhassan inside of it.
“I know usually during the fight, everybody wants to intimidate people, or say something, or do something to get the person going,” Alhassan said. “But, after the fight, everybody is kind of – for me, I don’t care. You can insult me, you can try to intimidate me, I don’t care. Because I know, when we get in there, I’m definitely going to do what I have to do.
“For me, I feel like intimidation doesn’t work. Say whatever you’ve got to say. When we get in there, I’m going to punch you no matter what.”
We’ll see what the future holds for Alhassan after a 4-1 start to his octagon run, but he won’t give us any hints. He’s not one to call people out, he said and will take on whomever his coaches and manager see fit.
He can tell us one thing about his future, though: We’ll probably see him walking out to “Circle of Life” by Elton John from “The Lion King” again.
And the reason for that should warm your heart right up.
“I was watching ‘Lion King’ with my son and any time that song comes on, he kind of is excited,” Alhassan said. “And when I saw it I’m kind of smiling – I start getting goosebumps when the song was going on. And I was like, ‘OK, I’m definitely going to go with that song.’”
To hear more from Alhassan, check out the video above.
And for complete coverage of UFC 228, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
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