(Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports)
Saturday night was a good night for UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez. The champ finished off Bigfoot Silva and walked away with the biggest paycheck of the night.
Here is the complete fighter purse breakdown for UFC 160, straight from the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Attendance: 12,380
Gate: $2,942,365
Cain Velasquez: $400,000
Junior dos Santos: $290,000 ($120,000 to show, $120,000 win bonus, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Mark Hunt: $210,000 ($160,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
TJ Grant: $100,000 ($25,000 to show, $25,000 win bonus, $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
Glover Teixeira: $98,000 ($24,000 to show, $24,000 win bonus, $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
Mike Pyle: $84,000 ($42,000 to show, $42,000 win bonus)
Donald Cerrone: $82,000 ($41,000 to show, $41,000 win bonus)
Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva: $75,000
Jeremy Stephens: $48,000 ($24,000 to show, $24,000 win bonus)
Gray Maynard: $45,000
K.J. Noons: $41,000
James Te Huna: $30,000
Robert Whittaker: $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 win bonus)
Dennis Bermudez: $28,000 ($14,000 to show, $14,000 win bonus)
Rick Story: $27,000
George Roop: $26,000 ($13,000 to show, $13,000 win bonus)
Khabib Nurmagomedov: $25,200 ($14,000 to show, $14,000 win bonus, $2,800 fine for missing weight)
Brian Bowles: $19,000
Stephen Thompson: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Colton Smith: $15,000
Max Holloway: $14,000
Estevan Payan: $10,000
Abel Trujillo: $9,400 ($8,000 to show, $1,400 from Nurmagomedov for missing weight)
Nah-Shon Burrell: $9,000
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