Hector Lombard finally earned his keep in the UFC. The hard-swinging Cuban-Aussie swarmed Rousimar Palhares last night, earning his first UFC victory and the biggest paycheck at the event.
Before we go any further, we should note that international events generally don’t release fighter pay info, so none of the following salary data for the event is official. However, you can get a fairly accurate picture of a fighter’s pay based on official purse info released from past fights. So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 20 fighters that traded blows at the event (but please remember – this is only an estimate, not official info, especially for any fighters that made their UFC debuts at the event or Rousimar Palhares, who we don’t have very recent info for).
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
Gold Coast, Australia
Attendance: 5,133
Gate: $900,000
Hector Lombard: $300,000
Ben Alloway: $56,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus, $40,000 Knockout of the Night bonus)
Cody Donovan: $52,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus, $40,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Mike Pierce: $50,000 ($25,000 to show, $25,000 win bonus)
Ross Pearson: $48,000 ($24,000 to show, $24,000 win bonus)
Chad Mendes: $46,000 ($23,000 to show, $23,000 win bonus)
Nick Penner: $46,000 ($6,000 to show, $40,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Joey Beltran: $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 win bonus)
Igor Pokrajac: $19,000
Robert Whittaker: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Norman Parke: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Mike Wilkinson: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Seth Baczynski: $16,000
George Sotiropoulos: $15,000
Yaotzin Meza: $10,000
Bradley Scott: $8,000
Colin Fletcher: $8,000
Manuel Rodriguez: $8,000
Brendan Loughnane: $8,000
Rousimar Palhares: $7,000
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