UFC Fight Night 185 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Multiple veterans net $20k

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 185 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $170,000.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC Fight Night 185 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 185 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Derrick Lewis: $20,000
def. Curtis Blaydes: $10,000

Yana Kunitskaya: $5,000
def. Ketlen Vieira: $5,000

Darrick Minner: $3,500
def. Charles Rosa: $5,000

Chris Daukaus: $3,500
def. Aleksei Oleinik: $10,000

Philip Hawes: $3,500
def. Nassourdine Imavov: $3,500

Tom Aspinall: $3,500
def. Andrei Arlovski: $20,000

Jared Gordon: $5,000
def. Danny Chavez: $3,500

John Castaneda: $3,500
def. Eddie Wineland: $20,000

Julian Erosa: $5,000
def. Nate Landwehr: $3,500

Casey O’Neill: $3,500
def. Shana Dobson: $5,000

Aiemann Zahabi: $4,000
def. Drako Rodriguez: $3,500

Serghei Spivac: $4,000
def. Jared Vanderaa: $3,500

Chas Skelly: $10,000
vs. Jamall Emmers: $3,500
Fight canceled

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Reebok’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $3,500 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,000; 6-10 bouts get $5,000; 11-15 bouts earn $10,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $15,000; and 21 bouts and more get $20,000. Additionally, champions earn $40,000 while title challengers get $30,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2021 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 185: Blaydes vs. Lewis” – $170,000
• “UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns” – $169,500
• “UFC Fight Night 184: Overeem vs. Volkov” – $178,000
• “UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2” – $174,000
• “UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar” – $140,500
• “UFC on ESPN 20: Chiesa vs. Magny” – $145,000

Year-to-date total: $977,000
2020 total: $6,543,500
2019 total: $7,370,500
2018 total: $6,901,000
2017 total: $6,295,000
2016 total: $7,138,000
2015 total: $3,185,000
Program-to-date total: $38,410,000