Welcome to the middleweight division, Mr. Machida – please, feel free to dish out a head kick KO and walk home with the biggest payday at UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Munoz.
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 24 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 ).
Attendance: 10,355
Gate: $1,500,000
Lyoto Machida: $250,000 ($200,000 to show, $50,000 win bonus)
Luke Barnatt: $70,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Andrew Craig: $67,000 ($17,000 to show, $50,000 win bonus)
Nicholas Musoke: $62,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus, $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
Cole Miller: $52,000 ($26,000 to show, $26,000 win bonus)
Mark Munoz: $47,000
Melvin Guillard: $42,000
Norman Parke: $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 win bonus)
Ross Pearson: $30,000
John Lineker: $21,000 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus, $3,000 fine for missing weight)
Alessio Sakara: $21,000
Al Iaquinta: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
Jimi Manuwa: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
Jimy Hettes: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
Jessica Andrade: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Brad Scott: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Phil Harris: $11,000 ($8,000 to show, $3,000 from Lineker for missing weight)
Ryan Jimmo: $10,000
Jon Tuck: $8,000
Piotr Hallmann: $8,000
Rosi Sexton: $6,000
Andy Ogle: $6,000
Rob Whiteford: $6,000
Michael Kuiper: $6,000
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