UFC on ESPN 38 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: 2022 total passes $4 million

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 38 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $140,500.

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 on ESPN 38 took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The main card aired on ESPN following prelims on ESPN2.

The full UFC on ESPN 38 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Arman Tsarukyan: $6,000
Mateusz Gamrot: $4,500

Neil Magny: $21,000
Shavkat Rakhmonov: $4,500

Josh Parisian: $4,500
Alan Baudot: $4,500

Thiago Moises: $6,000
Christos Giagos: $11,000

Nate Maness: $4,500
Umar Nurmagomedov: $4,000

Chris Curtis: $4,000
Rodolfo Vieira: $4,500

Carlos Ulberg: $4,000
Tafon Nchukwi: $4,500

Shayilan Nuerdanbieke: $4,000
T.J. Brown: $4,500

Raulian Paiva: $6,000
Sergey Morozov: $4,500

Cody Durden: $4,500
def. JP Buys: $4,000

Mario Bautista: $6,000
def. Brian Kelleher: $11,000

Vanessa Demopoulos: $4,000
def. Jinh Yu Frey: $4,500

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’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 $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $38,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-38 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2022 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC on ESPN 38: Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot” – $140,500
• “UFC on ESPN 37: Kattar vs. Emmett” – $189,000
• “UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Prochazka” – $258,000
• “UFC Fight Night 207: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik” – $149,000
• “UFC Fight Night 206: Holm vs. Vieira” – $127,000
• “UFC on ESPN 36: Blachowicz vs. Rakic” – $173,000
• “UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje” – $320,000
• “UFC on ESPN 35: Font vs. Vera” – $197,500
• “UFC Fight Night 205: Lemos vs. Andrade” – $149,500
• “UFC on ESPN 34: Luque vs. Muhammad 2” – $159,000
• “UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie” – $293,500
• “UFC on ESPN 33: Blaydes vs. Daukaus” – $186,500
• “UFC Fight Night 204: Volkov vs. Aspinall” – $154,500
• “UFC Fight Night 203: Santos vs. Ankalaev” – $198,000
• “UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal” – $236,000
• “UFC Fight Night 202: Makhachev vs. Green” – $138,000
• “UFC Fight Night 201: Walker vs. Hill” – $140,000
• “UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2” – $282,500
• “UFC Fight Night 200: Hermansson vs. Strickland” – $160,500
• “UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane” – $241,000
• “UFC on ESPN 32: Kattar vs. Chikadze” – $132,000

Year-to-date total: $4,034,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $10,202,000