UFC Fight Night 208 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Program total passes $11 million

LONDON – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 208 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $206,000.

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 208 took place at The O2. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 208 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Curtis Blaydes: $16,000
def. Tom Aspinall: $6,000

Jack Hermansson: $11,000
def. Chris Curtis: $4,500

Paddy Pimblett: $4,000
def. Jordan Leavitt: $4,500

Nikita Krylov: $16,000
def. Alexander Gustafsson: $16,000

Molly McCann: $6,000
def. Hannah Goldy: $4,500

Volkan Oezdemir: $11,000
def. Paul Craig: $11,000

Ludovit Klein: $4,500
def. Mason Jones: $4,500

Marc Diakiese: $11,000
def. Damir Hadzovic: $6,000

Nathaniel Wood: $6,000
def. Charles Rosa: $11,000

Jonathan Pearce: $4,500
def. Makwan Amirkhani: $11,000

Muhammad Mokaev: $4,000
def. Charles Johnson: $4,000

Jai Herbert: $4,500
def. Kyle Nelson: $4,500

Victoria Leonardo: $4,000
def. Mandy Bohm: $4,000

Nicolas Dalby: $6,000
def. Claudio Silva: $6,000

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 2087 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2081 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 $32,000.

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 2022 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 208: Blaydes vs. Aspinall” – $179,000
• “UFC on ABC 3: Ortega vs. Rodriguez” – $179,000
• “UFC on ESPN 39: Dos Anjos vs. Fiziev” – $157,500
• “UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier” – $362,500
• “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: $4,939,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $11,107,000

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 208.