(Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
It’s good to be The Reem. He got back on the winning track at UFC on Fox: dos Santos vs Miocic, and walked away with one of the biggest paychecks.
Before we go any further, we should note that the Arizona Commission doesn’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 (and from future fights – we go back and update these numbers as more info becomes available). So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 24 fighters that traded blows at the event, and Ed Herman who got paid his show money despite his fight being cancelled (but please remember – this is only an estimate, not official info, especially for any fighters that made their UFC debuts at the event).
UPDATE: apparently Arizona does release fighter purse info. Here are the official numbers, as first reported on MMA Fighting.
Attendance: 15,300
Gate: $1,500,000
Junior dos Santos: $310,000 ($130,000 to show, $130,000 win bonus, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Alistair Overeem: $150,000 ($100,000 to show, $50,000 win bonus)
Matt Mitrione: $116,000 ($33,000 to show, $33,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus)
Rafael dos Anjos: $86,000 ($41,000 to show, $41,000 win bonus, $4,000 from Diaz for missing weight)
Stipe Miocic: $80,000 ($30,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Ian Entwistle: $66,000 ($8,000 to show $8,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus)
John Moraga: $50,000 ($25,000 to show, $25,000 win bonus)
Ed Herman: $47,000
Stefan Struve: $40,000
Gabriel Gonzaga: $38,000
Henry Cejudo: $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 win bonus)
Ben Saunders: $28,000 ($14,000 to show, $14,000 win bonus)
Joanna Jędrzejczyk: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
Jamie Varner: $20,000
Drew Dober: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Bryan Barberena: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
David Michaud: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Nate Diaz: $16,000 ($20,000 to show, fined $4,000 for missing weight)
Joe Riggs: $16,000
Dustin Kimura: $15,000
Claudia Gadelha: $10,000
Joe Ellenberger: $10,000
Willie Gates: $8,000
Garrett Whiteley: $8,000
Anthony Birchak: $8,000
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