Highest fighter salaries of 2019 (show money)

[mikesparrow]

Conrat made 2 mil+ fighting khabgoat.

It was for 2019. Conor fought in 18.

 

[Spookv]

Aldo deserves much more. I'm never usually mad at how the UFC pays it's fighters, it is their company and they choose what they want to do. But fuck seeing Aldo's payout makes me sick.

 

[JS123JJ]

Overeem got 850k to show against Oleinik, he should be in second place but he's not on the list?

how much is he going to make for getting KO'ed in 10 seconds by jairzinho?

 

[TheChance]

Its a proven fact that fighters make more than just show money. Look at the whole Randy case with the UFC

Not only that but they do get paid outside of just their fight night pay aside from just the lockeroom bunus payouts

 

[Dana's Moonface]

Why are you guys complaining?

Aren't you always going on about how shit boxing cards are, compared to the ufc?

If you start paying everyone millions, then cards will have one or maybe 2 good fights at most, as they won't be able to afford to stack them

Yes fighters will earn much more, but the actual cards will suck and a lot of fighters will likely get cut due to costs.

 

[LEXER1]

Khabib is overpayed

 

[Vegeta]

how much is he going to make for getting KO'ed in 10 seconds by jairzinho?

So what?
Overeem is a legend.

 

[MigitAs]

Wonder what Woodley’s show $$$ will be now that he’s not champ?

 

[TonyF2020]

A combination of sportsbible, mmamania, forbes and thesportsdaily.
Pretty much just took the first article I could find by googling the event name + "salaries"
https://www.google.com/search?q=ufc+244+salaries

One example:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trentr...srael-adesanya-each-earn-350000/#2fd88a217b78

The UFC 242 salaries were wrong. Islam Machacehv said and also Rizwan the manager of Khabib confirmed this. This 6 million figure was taken from an estimate, which estimate number based on previous salaries

Even the same UFC 242 estimate had Dustin earning which he disputed in the tweet


-Khabibs manager disputes the earnings, says it was more then UFC 229, more then 10 million
-Islam says figures were wrong
-Dustin disputes the figure

Cliffs-your source is #1 Bullshit mate. Not hating, just saying.

 

[MigitAs]

Cyborg 500k??
It's wmma Dana, please.

Dana saw this as a necessary evil. On one hand, sure you pay Cyborg 500K, on the other hand, she got Brutally Ko’d and smashed for the first time in her career, thus her leveraging power decreased greatly. Now she is in Bellator, and many Believe the UFC Champion Amanda, to be better than Cyborg and GOAT WMMA fighter. Baldfather remains Undefeated and Undisputed.

 

[bigmacbub]

Why are you guys complaining?

Aren't you always going on about how shit boxing cards are, compared to the ufc?

If you start paying everyone millions, then cards will have one or maybe 2 good fights at most, as they won't be able to afford to stack them

Yes fighters will earn much more, but the actual cards will suck and a lot of fighters will likely get cut due to costs.

Lol
1 they have enough money to pay better
2 the cards are sucking already

 

[JS123JJ]

So what?
Overeem is a legend.

no just really curious cause he likely beats asscream's record

 

[JustAkidFrom209]

Khabib's show money against Conor was 2 mil while Conor was 3 mil. I doubt Khabib made 6 mil.

He did, because UFC has struck a deal with the largest TV channel in Russia to broadcast this fight only, not the whole card just the Khabib fight and the views were insane I think about 26 million TVs in Russia were watching this fight live.

 

[JS123JJ]

He did, because UFC has struck a deal with the largest TV channel in Russia to broadcast this fight only, not the whole card just the Khabib fight and the views were insane I think about 26 million TVs in Russia were watching this fight live.

confirmed...khabib much more popular in the world than mcrapist

 

[Nelly]

He did, because UFC has struck a deal with the largest TV channel in Russia to broadcast this fight only, not the whole card just the Khabib fight and the views were insane I think about 26 million TVs in Russia were watching this fight live.

I doubt that would directly translate to a higher show pay but I could be wrong. Anyways a source was already provided.

 

[Dr. Now]

I Dnno why Overeem makes so much.

 

[Askafan]

Unless there was a leak most of these figures are guesstimates from mainly wannabe websites. Only a few commissions publish purse details, Nevada and California for example. Florida just recently stopped giving figures so the number is actually going down.

Of course even the published figures don't cover ppv's or under the table payments. For example Rousey earned $8.6 million in 2015 according to papers lodged as part of the big court case, yet she was supposedly on just $65k show money for facing Zingano.

 

[czitos188]

Dana saw this as a necessary evil. On one hand, sure you pay Cyborg 500K, on the other hand, she got Brutally Ko’d and smashed for the first time in her career, thus her leveraging power decreased greatly. Now she is in Bellator, and many Believe the UFC Champion Amanda, to be better than Cyborg and GOAT WMMA fighter. Baldfather remains Undefeated and Undisputed.

baldfather always win in the end.

 

[Hirashin]

Romero, TOny, Gaedje, Ngannou, Aldo, Glover are getting robbed.

Once P4P #1 Barao (as per Dana) is down to 50k.

 

[Willie]

Based on UFC events of 2019 here's a list of
fighters who make the most official show money per fight

Update: list now inludes all events, not just main events

Khabib - 6 Mil (no win bonus)
Ovreem - 850K (no win bonus)
Stipe - 750K (no win bonus)
Silva - 600K both times
Jones - 500K both times (no win bonus)
DC - 500K
T Wood - 500K
Cyborg - 500K for Nunes, 70K for Spencer
Diaz - 500K against Masvidal, 250K against Pettis
Masvidal - 500K against Nate (no win bonus), 100K against Askren, 66K against Till
Gus - 500K for Jones, 58K for Smith
Cain - 450K
Israel - 400K for Rob, 350K for KG (no win bonus on either)
Whittaker - 400K
JDS - 400K for both (no win bonus)
Cejudo - 350K
Dillashaw - 350K
Santos - 350K (no win bonus) for Jones, 60K for Blachowicz
Holloway - 350K both times
Usman - 350K (no win bonus)
Arlovski - 300K all three times
Weidman - 325K
Nunes - 300K for Holm, 350K for Cyborg
Holm - 300K (no win bonus)
Edgar - 250K
Dustin - 250K for Khabib, 250K for Max (no win bonus)
Jacare - 210K both times
Askren - 210K for Masvidal, 210K for Maia, 200K for Lawler
Shogun - 200K
Lawler - 200K both times
Giblert - 200K
Rockhold - 200K
Cerrone - 175K for Gaethje and Ferg, 170K for Iaquinta, 165K for Hernandez
Faber - 170K
Gastelum - 165K for Till, 150K for Izzy
Ferguson - 160K
Romero - 150K
BJ - 150K both times
Pettis - 145K
Lewis - 140K for both
Garbrandt - 130K
Gaethje - 130K, 120K
Lil Nog - 128K
Ngannou - 120K both times
Wonderboy - 120K both times
Manuwa - 120K
RDA - 120K for Edwards, 110K for Lee
Till - 120K for Kelvin, 31K for Masvidal
Glover - 115K for Krylov, 105K for Cutelaba, 90 for Robertson
Aldo - 110K, 105K
Shevshenko - 110K for Carmouche, 105K for Eye
Alex Oliviera - 105K for Dalby, 64K for Perry
Thug Rose - 105K
Sanchez - 103K for Chiesa, 99K for Gall
Charles Oliviera - 100K for Lentz, 95K for Teymur
Eye - 100K
Carmouche - 100K for Valentina, 32K for Pudliova
Moraez - 100K
Zhang - 100K
Andrade - 100K both times
Brunson - 95K
Miller - 95K, 90K
Latifi - 90K both times
Maia - 90K, 88K, 86K
Cub - 90K both times
Mendes - 87K
OSP - 86K both times
Hardy - 85K, 80K, 75K, 75K
Volkan - 85K for both
Krylov - 85K for Glover, 80K for OSP
Perry - 85K for Luque, 55K for Oliviera
Lee - 84K
Nelson - 81K for both
Blaydes - 80K, 75K
Hooker - 80K, 75K
Moraes - 79K
Assuncao - 79K both times
Benavidez - 79K, 76K
Sandhagen - 77K
Struve - 77K
Volkov - 75K
Barboza - 75K for both
Sterling - 75K, 70K
Iaquinta - 73K, 71K
Boetsch - 72K
Yair - 70K for Stephens II, 54K for Stephens I
Watterson - 70K
Lauzon - 70K
Stephens - 67K for all three
Riviera - 68K both times
Corey Anderson - 67K for Walker, 65K for Latifi
Reyes - 65K, 55K
Vick - 65K three times
Volkanovski - 62K for Aldo, 65K for Mendes
Rothwell - 62K for both
Elkins - 62K
Guida - 61K
Costa - 60K
Joanna - 60K
Uriah Hall - 60K, 55K
Zabit - 60K for Kattar, 55K for Stephens
Ivanov - 60K for Lewis, 55K for Tuivasa, 50K for Rothwell
Villiante - 58K
Herman - 57K, 54K
Cannonier - 56K for Hermansson, 54K for Silva
Pearson - 56K
Lamas - 55K
Caceres - 55K both times
Lentz - 55K, 53K
Barao - 53K
Chiesa - 52K for Diego, 48K for Condit
Gadelha - 52K
Dariush - 52K, 50K
Eryk Anders - 52K, 50K
Hermansson - 51K for Cannonier,
Munhoz - 51K
Michael Johnson - 51K for both
Esparza - 51K
Means - 51K
Alvey - 50K both times
Yayha - 50K
Thiago Alves - 50K
Marlon Vera - 50K
Casey - 50K
Zingano - 50K

Note:
* The cutoff is 50K. Lots of fighters fell short: Walker, Colby, Jan, Cirkunov, Paige, etc.
* I ignored all bonuses, this is just show money. I have however made some notes of fighters who've chosen not to have any win-bonus, in order to get more show money instead.
* By accident I also included one event from 2018 (UFC 232)

Update: list now inludes all events, not just main events

Khabib DID get a win bonus and UFC salaries disclosed are not real anyway.