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Northcutt tops UFC Fight Night 80 payouts

December 14, 2015 by Jason Cruz 13 Comments

MMA Junkie reports the salaries from Thursday’s UFC Fight Night 80 from The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.  Sage Northcutt led the fight roster making a total of $80,000.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission disclosed the paydays to Junkie as follows.

Rose Namajunas: $54,000 (includes $27,000 win bonus)
def. Paige VanZant: $40,000

Michael Chiesa: $60,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def. Jim Miller: $56,000

Sage Northcutt: $80,000 (includes $40,000 win bonus)
def. Cody Pfister: $12,000

Thiago “Marreta” Santos: $38,000 (includes $19,000 win bonus)
def. Elias Theodorou: $20,000

Tim Means: $54,000 (includes $27,000 win bonus)
def. John Howard: $27,000

Sergio Moraes: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Omari Akhmedov: $14,000

Kevin Casey: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
vs. Antonio Carlos Junior: $19,000

Aljamain Sterling: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Johnny Eduardo: $14,000

Santiago Ponzinibbio: $26,000 (includes $13,000 win bonus)
def. Andreas Stahl: $10,000

Danny Roberts: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Nathan Coy: $10,000

Zubaira Tukhugov: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Phillipe Nover: $14,000

Kailin Curran: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Emily Kagan: $10,000

The total disclosed payroll for the event was $702,000.

Payout Perspective:

Northcutt is ascending up the UFC pay roster quickly at $40K/$40K in just his second fight for the company.  Paige VanZant appears to be there as well as she made $40K in a losing effort.  Rose Namajunas made the second-most overall with $54K total.  It will be interesting to see where Aljamain Sterling goes from here as he made $14K/$14K in his last fight on his UFC contract.  He’s looking to improve on this with his next contract.  Will the UFC be the place?

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Comments

  1. The Greatest says

    December 15, 2015 at 12:29 am

    $80k?
    I heard from D that he makes like $10M a fight in back room bonuses though

    Reply
  2. d says

    December 15, 2015 at 7:14 am

    Those last two 1m plus ppvs really burned, didn’t they? HAHAHAHA!

    Reply
  3. The Greatest says

    December 15, 2015 at 7:36 am

    It cant really burn when it never happened and you got a ppv in boxing that just did under 5M ppv buys.

    No we’ll just keep making more money, selling more ppvs, having bigger gates, and breaking records.
    But Im glad it took two former boxers for the UFC to get over 1M ppv buys, supposedly.

    Reply
  4. d says

    December 15, 2015 at 8:24 am

    Boxing fans were self destructing when the reality of two big 1m plus ppv’s for the UFC came in back to back and there new star can only hit 900k with another ppv fighter.

    The word “we” gets thrown around very loosely here apparently.

    Both fights involved zero former boxers as the A headliners. MMA on fire!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  5. d says

    December 15, 2015 at 8:24 am

    Boxing fans were self destructing when the reality of two big 1m plus ppv’s for the UFC came in back to back and there new star can only hit 900k with another ppv fighter.

    The word “we” gets thrown around very loosely here apparently.

    Both fights involved zero former boxers as the A headliners. MMA on fire!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  6. The Greatest says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:33 am

    On fire?

    Heres your last 5 ppvs this year without Rousey or Mcgregor.
    UFC 192 250k
    UFC 191 115k
    UFC 188 300k
    UFC 187 375k
    UFC 186 125k

    Yea on fire.

    Reply
  7. The Greatest says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:40 am

    Also lol at you thinking boxing fans care about a smaller less lucrative sport.
    Most boxing fans are laughing that back to back ppvs were dominated by boxers.
    It ended the boxing vs mma argument.
    Two boxers headlined the biggest UFC ppvs of the year. Go figure.

    Why don’t you go mention Mayweathers name for some more publicity.

    Reply
  8. d says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:59 am

    Back to Back 1m plus ppv buys!! ON FIRE!!!!! Boxing ppv in the gutter!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    Boxers don’t fight in mma. When they do they get destroyed!!

    Reply
  9. The Greatest says

    December 15, 2015 at 10:31 am

    Look at the panic.
    Maybe if you added another exclamation point, we’d believe you.

    Reply
  10. d says

    December 15, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Says the guy who is obsessed with me and starts out the topic calling me out. Hahaha.

    Boxing ppv in the gutter!

    Reply
  11. tops E says

    December 15, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    Hahahaha…the ” secret mafia style backroom bonuses” shhhhh hahahaha mysterious

    Reply
  12. The Greatest says

    December 16, 2015 at 12:39 am

    Yea boxings ppv is in the gutter.
    Only just broke EVERY ppv record ever that will never be touched again unless Mayweather decides different.
    Yea really in the gutter.

    Reply
  13. d says

    December 16, 2015 at 8:04 am

    “Yea boxings ppv is in the gutter.”

    I agree.

    Reply

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