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UFC fighter Antonio Trocoli made a ton of money in the 2025 World Series of Poker.
While playing in the $500 buy-in Colossus tournament at the WSOP, Trocoli cashed $122,330 after finishing in sixth place.
Ravi Pyloore delivers the knockout blow to MMA fighter Antonio Trocoli in the @WSOP Colossus. Trocoli’s run ends in sixth place for $122,330.
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Trocoli spoke with MMA Fighting about his big win.
“That was the biggest hit of my career,” Trocoli told MMA Fighting. “I’ve had other prizes before in Brazilian real, like R$48,000 (approx. $8,600 USD), but not that much in dollars, right? Especially in the Colossus, the biggest field in WSOP. … Who doesn’t want to turn $500 into $500,000? This tournament pays a lot for the value [of the buy-in]. I had the dream and made it to the final.. It was incredible. There are many Brazilians playing this for a long time and never made it to the final table at the Colossus. It’s a historic feat.”
Trocoli says that he plans on pursuing a career playing poker after his UFC fighting career end.
“MMA is good, but you have to stop your life for two months and prepare to fight and break yourself for something that isn’t even that much. When you win a bonus, cool, but I don’t know. Today I don’t have that… It’s not because I won [at WSOP] or because I got to such a high prize, but I was already thinking about this.”
“I’m not that excited [about MMA] anymore. I had this injury and my back is kind of bad, fragile. I still want to be successful at both [MMA and poker] simultaneously. But I also have the desire to do only poker because like it or not, I’ve made more money in poker than fighting. It’s stupid if I don’t choose to live off poker after fighting.”
While Trocoli is excited about his poker prospects, he still expects to fight in August after suffering a back injury earlier this year.