UFC 249 - Fighters Salaries

[siablo14]

According to The Sports Daily, Triple C took home $350,00 to show, as well as an additional $40,000 for fight week incentive pay to take his grand total to $390,000.

Henry Cejudo: $390,000 ($350,000 to show, $40,000 fight week incentive pay)

Justin Gaethje: $380,000 ($250,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus, $30,000 fight week incentive pay)

Tony Ferguson: $380,000 ($350,000 to show, $30,000 fight week incentive pay)

Fabricio Werdum: $340,000 ($325,000 to show, $15,000 fight week incentive pay)

Anthony Pettis: $330,000 ($155,000 to show, $155,000 win bonus, $20,000 fight week incentive pay)

Francis Ngannou: $320,000 ($130,000 to show, $130,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus, $10,000 fight week incentive pay)


Dominick Cruz: $280,000 ($250,000 to show, $30,000 fight week incentive pay)

Donald Cerrone: $220,000 ($200,000 to show, $20,000 fight week incentive pay)

Greg Hardy: $175,000 ($85,000 to show, $85,000 win bonus, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Aleksei Oleinik: $170,000 ($80,000 to show, $80,000 win bonus, $10,000 fight week incentive pay)

Carla Esparza: $111,000 ($53,000 to show, $53,000 win bonus, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Vicente Luque: $104,000 ($47,000 to show, $47,000 win bonus, $10,000 fight week incentive pay)

Michelle Waterson: $75,000 ($70,000 to show, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Jeremy Stephens: $66,900 ($67,000 to show, $20,100 fine for missing weight, $20,000 fight week incentive pay)

Calvin Kattar: $65,100 ($20,000 to show, $20,000 win bonus, $20,100 from Stephens for missing weight, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Sam Alvey: $65,000 ($50,000 to show, $15,000 fight week incentive pay)

Bryce Mitchell: $36,000 ($16,000 to show, $16,000 win bonus, $4,000 fight week incentive pay)

Ryan Spann: $36,000 ($16,000 to show, $16,000 win bonus, $4,000 fight week incentive pay)

Niko Price: $27,000 ($22,000 to show, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Charles Rosa: $27,000 ($22,000 to show, $5,000 fight week incentive pay)

Jairzinho Rozenstruik: $22,000 ($18,000 to show, $4,000 fight week incentive pay)

Yorgan De Castro: $15,500 ($12,000 to show, $3,500 fight week incentive pay)



A far cry from boxing purses giving to B list fighters. However UFC is putting out a better overall product every PPC. Dana is on to something.

Are boxers getting paid too much? Is the rising cost of PPV for boxers and their high demands are killing the sport ?

Are UFC figures paid too low? I think they are getting market value while Terrance Crawford is over valued.

I think Da La Hoya or Mayweather can do a lot of work in MMA if they entered into the market.

What are the viewership numbers for Saturday's card

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What are the viewership numbers for Saturday's card

Will answer in a new trend.

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What are the viewership numbers for Saturday's card

700k + buys.

[IceTrayDaGang]

ufc 249 made a total of $45mil.. the total amount to pay all the fighters came up to only $3.5mil.... mofos getting ripped off... cant the fighters do something about this? like if the fighters all come together and be like were not gonna fight for the ufc until we get paid what we deserves, cant they do something like this to put pressure on dana?

[siablo14]

700k + buys.

That's better than average?

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ufc 249 made a total of $45mil.. the total amount to pay all the fighters came up to only $3.5mil.... mofos getting ripped off... cant the fighters do something about this? like if the fighters all come together and be like were not gonna fight for the ufc until we get paid what we deserves, cant they do something like this to put pressure on dana?

Damn dude don’t ruin the UFC with this mindset .

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That's better than average?

Little bit lower than average but good numbers during a pandemic

[Albanianboxing]

It is shocking how low fighter pay is in the ufc. The last article that I read said that the fighters only recieve 14% of the revenue coming in. That is criminal.

Boxing usually has about 5 fighters on the Forbes 100 Highest Paid Athletes List and mma only ever has one in Conor but he is always making less than the top boxing stars. Canelo, Anthony Joshua, Mayweather, Pacquiao etc.

[sammy2020]

I tend to prefer UFC to boxing these days - but these salaries are grossly unjust.