Costa said he needs to be paid higher than the current basic money and also said he has never signed a contract for the 5 -round event match will take place on August 21.
The content of the tweets is as follows:
“UFC needs to pay for me as a fingerprint of the point, I will fight the focus. YouTuber is showing the humiliation of this industry.”
“I want to say this clearly. I have not signed or read the contract carefully. Why does UFC announce this match? That's my question.”
“The hard remuneration below 350,000 USD is a joke.”
UFC President Dana White rejected Costa's statement that he had never signed a contract for the match in an interview.
“I don't think it's true. I think he has signed it, because we extended him. We extended his contract for him to refuse the war.
“But listen, don't play. I have to provide him with three matches a year. This is my situation with all these people. I provide you with three matches every year, he doesn't need to play. If you don't like it, don't fight.
“Guess what? You should have opened a YouTube at the age of 13, built his name and many other things and he might be playing on Sunday night.
“But I didn't do that. You are not a YouTuber, you are a boxer and this is what you do to make a living. Or you don't. It depends on you and you are not the right to say about the terrible remuneration after your recent play, okay? So you want to play or you don't want to fight. No problem.”