The UFC & Boxing main event purses from last night

Piecing together various tidbits, I get the impression that champs pull about 2mil and up to headline a PPV and the challengers are probably walking home with at least half a mil.

If they get into the PPV sales that would result in PPV bonus (this used to be 400k, and it got substantially.more per view at certain markers, 600k, 800k, 1m+) then they tend to get 5mil or so.

Jon Jones was probably in the 10-15mil range for his win over Gane which I think pulled around 1mil buys. I believe his disclosed was 3mil.

Conor and Khabib have both been paid 8 figures for headlining big cards. GSP also would have been paid 10m or so for his MW title win over Bisping.

Chael Sonnen claims his biggest check was 8mil. As I recall his biggest numbers were around 1 million (I think in the Anderson rematch) so it seems like the magic number to get to the high 7 figures to 10mil is to hit a million PPV buys.

** UFC contracts, like life, are not always fair. Some fighters surely got better deals than others and thus were compensated differently. Jon Fitch is on record saying he never got any "backroom bonus" money. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, all we know for sure is that he is Jon Fitch.
 
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svmr_db said:
If you believe those supposed disclosed purses for UFC champions you probably also google celebrity's net worth and think it's accurate. ;)<Lmaoo>

Amanda made a lot more than 500k last night.
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Lookout man, you are dangerously close to being pegged as a UFC shill.

GSP has been open about his pay for a long time and recently restated the same as he did over 10 years ago that he was making around $5m per fight and about $10m for coming back to fight Bisping. But here that makes GSP just another lying shill because it doesn't fit this strange vocal attitude here of the need to be warriors in the fight to save these fighters from the poverty and abuse they face due to the evil forces of Dana White.

I think it may have been Chandler (or maybe another company man) that made the point that none of them would be doing it for the money reported on the internet. Despite what many people here want to believe there is very big money at the top of the UFC.
 
Kowboy God of Violence said:
One was free for millions and millions to watch on TV. The other cost $79.95... Guess which was which.

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The value of this detail cannot be overstated. We are comparing apples and baked ziti here.

That said, the UFC is NOT the place to go to get money, per se. It's the place for top talent to go to get more money AND recognition (combined, strong emphasis on recognition) than you would have gotten in another MMA league.

If the choice was between boxing money and UFC money (it is not) every top fighter would be boxing. But that's not a real choice MMA fighters are considering.

They can't box, so they're stuck with the sport they've dedicated their professional life to. And that sport only pays decently if you make a good name for yourself. And VERY few get rich in that sport. I feel like everyone fighting MMA these days knows these facts. It's not like the wool is being pulled over their eyes, at least.

But there are better ways to make money for sure, if you're not passionate about being an MMA fighter.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Piecing together various tidbits, I get the impression that champs pull about 2mil and up to headline a PPV and the challengers are probably walking home with at least half a mil.
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It depends on the champ.

DJ said that he wasn't getting paid anywhere near that much money per fight and that asking for $2-3 million to fight Dillawshaw is when the UFC decided to get rid of him at their first opportunity.
 
Phisher said:
It depends on the champ.

DJ said that he wasn't getting paid anywhere near that much money per fight and that asking for $2-3 million to fight Dillawshaw is when the UFC decided to get rid of him at their first opportunity.
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DJ also has some of the lowest PPV sales ever with his name on the marquee.

I loved watching him fight.

The folks that buy the PPVs do not love paying to watch him fight.

But yeah, as I said in the bottom of the post you quoted, not everybody had the same contract.
 
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and dental. but don't worry the performance institute has an in house dentist:

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jeff7b9 said:
Chael Sonnen claims his biggest check was 8mil. As I recall his biggest numbers were around 1 million (I think in the Anderson rematch) so it seems like the magic number to get to the high 7 figures to 10mil is to hit a million PPV buys.
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He's full of shit lol. He got paid almost nothing for his Silva matches despite creating all the heat.
jeff7b9 said:
** UFC contracts, like life, are not always fair. Some fighters surely got better deals than others and thus were compensated differently. Jon Fitch is on record saying he never got any "backroom bonus" money. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, all we know for sure is that he is Jon Fitch.
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He did, it just wasn't that great. People overestimate backroom bonuses when the UFC is on record paying out less than 8 figures for that in a year in 2020 I think.
 
I always find it funny when people cry about main event fighter pay and focus on that rather than the guys getting paid actual peanuts and struggling. MMA or Boxing you have multiple people making 1/10th the pay of the main event, yet everyone here wants the main event to get even more. The top fighters are able to buy a new house for every fight, yet I doubt everyone here is even a home owner.

UFC has even said they don't release the exact fight pay amounts either and fighters haven't really broke down the exact amount sent either. I'd like to see a fighter screenshot the deposit in their bank and post on twitter.
 
avenue94 said:
He's full of shit lol. He got paid almost nothing for his Silva matches despite creating all the heat.

He did, it just wasn't that great. People overestimate backroom bonuses when the UFC is on record paying out less than 8 figures for that in a year in 2020 I think.
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I'm just relaying what they said.

If they were dishonest, that's on them.
 
Nearly all the Commissions have stopped publishing purse details, maybe California still do but that's about it. Nevada stopped in 2020 and Amanda's last published figure was $500k for the Spencer fight.

That $500k is the figure these sites use as the basis of their estimate. The problem with that is its 3 years out of date and it only accounts for the purse money lodged with the Commission -which isn't necessarily everything.
 
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