 This was the last fight on Alvarez's contract with Bellator and he passed the organization's contractual period of exclusive negotiation.Alvarez agreed on principle to a new contract with the UFC, reportedly including a share of pay-per-view revenue in addition to show and win money.Bellator, however, invoked a clause in the original contract to match the UFC's offer and re-sign Alvarez, matching the show and win purse and alleging that the pay-per-view cut in the UFC's offer to be strictly hypothetical.