Ariel Helwani is a well known Canadian-American MMA sports journalist, known for his personal coverage style. He has been awarded MMA Journalist of the Year every year since 2010.

His sharp comments and questioning have made him countless fans but his behavior has also irked many MMA fighters, trainers, managers and organizers the wrong way.

Ariel Helwani’s Income and UFC

On June 4, 2016, Ariel reported the return of Brock Lesnar at UFC 200, well before UFC could announce it themselves on their broadcast, without first checking this with the UFC organization. Dave Sholler, representative of UFC said that such reporting was against the deontology of journalism. According to UFC, Helwani was asked to not report this news, as management suspected a person at UFC had leaked it to him and, because they would not be able to find out who leaked it, would have to fire every possible employee who could have leaked it.

As a consequence Helwani and two colleagues got their press cards taken from them and were sent out of UFC 199 before the main event began. UFC president Dana White stated that the ban would last for as long as he would be in charge of UFC. Helwani, however, was later allowed to cover their events but he could not get a press card to attend any events.

Helwani from his site, however, later claimed that UFC’s statements were non-factual.

Does Ariel Have Money?

Seeing from his intensive journalism all around and his enormous following on social media we can’t help but think that Ariel has amassed a serious net worth.

Apparently what is disturbing for managers and athletes in sports, can be good for showbiz. Ariel surely attracts viewers with his stubborn approach.

Let’s put in a row what we have found on him.

Keep in mind that these are estimations. We have to rely on secondary information and our own common sense here. But we have quite some signs to go by in the case of Helwani.

In MMA Fighting and BT Sport, salaries are not as high as in the UFC. The athlete does not disclose the details of the contracts, but each report replenishes his account with a fairly good amount. This is due to its popularity on social media, so it can attract a good audience.

Ariel Helwani’s Actual Net worth

This is what we have on him:

Ariel Helwani surely shows a lot of daring when it comes to interviewing the strong men of this world and he is getting well rewarded for it. The amount of 8 million dollars is a fairly fair indicator of the net worth of an athlete. Monetizing public interest in his social networks is the main secret of his wealth.