{"id":335695,"date":"2019-12-17T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=335695"},"modified":"2019-12-17T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:10:10","slug":"ufc-245-fighter-salaries-disclosed-event-payroll-tops-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-245-fighter-salaries-disclosed-event-payroll-tops-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 245 fighter salaries: Disclosed event payroll tops 4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In the wake of the blockbuster UFC 245 event this past weekend, the payroll for all fighters that featured on the card \u2014 both <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-245-salaries-revealed-kamaru-usman-colby-covington-lead-the-pack\/\">main<\/a> and under \u2014 have been released.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The UFC 245 show saw three title fights headline at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with arguably the two biggest stories of the evening being <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kamaru-usman\/ufc-245-results-kamaru-usman-tkos-colby-covington-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Kamaru Usman successfully retaining his Welterweight Championship (opens in a new tab)\">Kamaru Usman successfully retaining his Welterweight Championship<\/a> and Alexander Volkanovski winning the Featherweight Championship.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The finances of UFC fighters have been discussed at great length over the years, with many wondering whether or not they deserve more than they actually get.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Below is the disclosed pay for all UFC 245 fighters, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/12\/ufc-245-salaries-kamaru-usman-colby-covington-top-list-disclosed-paydays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Junkie (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>UFC 245 Salaries:<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Kamaru Usman: $500,000 (no win bonus) def. Colby Covington: $500,000<\/li>\r\n<li>Alexander Volkanovski: $250,000 (no win bonus) def. Max Holloway: $350,000<\/li>\r\n<li>Amanda Nunes: $450,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus) def. Germaine de Randamie: $100,000<\/li>\r\n<li>Marlon Moraes: $220,000 (includes $110,000 win bonus) def. Jose Aldo: $400,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Petr Yan: $132,000 (includes $66,000 win bonus) def.\u00a0Urijah Faber: $250,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Geoff Neal: $62,000 (includes $31,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Mike Perry: $90,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Irene Aldana: $80,000 (includes $40,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Ketlen Vieira: $33,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Omari Akhmedov: $110,000 (includes $55,000 win bonus) def.\u00a0Ian Heinisch: $50,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Matt Brown: $160,000 (includes $80,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Ben Saunders: $35,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Chase Hooper: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Daniel Teymur: $18,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Brandon Moreno: $62,000 (includes $31,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Kai Kara-France: $25,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Jessica Eye: $96,000 (includes $48,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Viviane Araujo: $45,000\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Puna Soriano: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)\u00a0def.\u00a0Oskar Piechota: $20,000<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What do you think of the fighter salaries for the UFC 245 card?<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/16\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the blockbuster UFC 245 event this past weekend, the payroll for all fighters that featured on the card \u2014 both main and under \u2014 have been released. The UFC 245 show saw three title fights headline at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with arguably the two biggest stories of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":335522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39610,54125],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC 245 fighter salaries: Disclosed event payroll tops 4 million<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The fighter salaries of everyone involved in UFC 245 have been released, with the overall payroll extending beyond $4 million.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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