Fight for a $1? Hermes Franca once did

Hermes Franca recently retired after losing a Max Fights bout in Des Moines, Iowa. He took a look back at his career with Cage Potato and shared a bizarre story about fighting for one dollar and to shut up a trash talker from the Underground Forum. When I did go [to the Underground] and leave some messages they think it was funny and they love that. So this guy Manny Reyes was writing some trash around 2004. He was saying he was the UFC champion and I thought this guy is crazy. He was challenging me for some reason and one of the promoters said, “Ok Hermes you want to fight?” I say “I don’t want to fight this guy, he’s nobody.”The promoter said that the fans want someone to kill him ... They were selling a lot of tickets so he wanted like $2-3,000. Because he was so expensive the promoter asked me if I would fight for one dollar. I said, “What the [expletive]?” The promoter said, “Come on, do it for me, you’re a good friend...