Chad Mendes Net Worth
Do you know the popular American martial artist Chad Mendes is net worth $1.5 Millions. Let’s find out some of the interesting and unknown facts about Chad Mendes.
Chad Edward Mendes, born on May 1, 1985 is an American mixed martial artist. Mendes owns a net worth of $1.5 Million as he is popularly known for competing as a Featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. From the 8th grade, he involved in wrestling for Hanford High School. After he finished his college, he started to train with the mixed martial arts team Team Alpha Male. He started to fight for the Palace Fighting Championship.
Chad Mendes made his first World Extreme Cagefighting debut against Erik Koch on March 6, 2010. He won the match through unanimous decision. In World Extreme Cagefighting, he had total 4 matches. World Extreme Cagefighting in 2010 October merged with Ultimate Fighting Championship. After the merging, all of the WEC fighters were transferred to UFC. In UFC, he had his first match with Judo black belt Michihiro Omaigawa. Mendes won the match with him through unanimous decision. In another match, he faced with Rani Yahna. He won these match through unanimous decision like before. Third match of him was with UFC Featherweight Champison Jose Aldo. He lose the match with him at 4:59. His loss in this match was his first professional loss. He next faced with Cody McKenzie, winning the match with a body punch. After match with McKenzie, his match was supposed to be with Hacran Dias. But due to the shoulder injury, he pulled out of the match. So, Mendes had to fight with Yaotzin Meza. He defeat Meza at duration of 3:38. Similarly, Mendes had a match with Manvel Gamburyan, Darren Elkins, Clay Guida, Nik Lentz, Ricardo Lamas.
In UFC, he was awarded his first award “Fight of the Night” bonus award. Also, he won World MMA Awards 2015 fight of the year award. Profession as a mixed martial artist had made him to earn a net worth of $1.5 million. Mendes has over 296k Instagram followers, 171k Twitter followers and 81k fans on his Facebook Fanpage.
