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?
The Greatest says
$80k?
I heard from D that he makes like $10M a fight in back room bonuses though
d says
Those last two 1m plus ppvs really burned, didn’t they? HAHAHAHA!
The Greatest says
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.
d says
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!!!!!!!!!
d says
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!!!!!!!!!
The Greatest says
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.
The Greatest says
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.
d says
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!!
The Greatest says
Look at the panic.
Maybe if you added another exclamation point, we’d believe you.
d says
Says the guy who is obsessed with me and starts out the topic calling me out. Hahaha.
Boxing ppv in the gutter!
tops E says
Hahahaha…the ” secret mafia style backroom bonuses” shhhhh hahahaha mysterious
The Greatest says
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.
d says
“Yea boxings ppv is in the gutter.”
I agree.