Bonuses double to $100K, each finish gets $25K starting with UFC 324

The UFC’s new broadcast period will begin out with some new fighter incentives.

Customary struggle night time bonuses have been $50,000 for greater than a decade. Every so often, they’ve surged for particular events – thought UFC CEO Dana White mentioned in 2024 these days had been over.

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However with UFC 324 on Saturday at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas, the 4 customary bonuses – sometimes two for Struggle of the Night time and two efficiency bonuses, although typically it is 4 particular person efficiency awards – will transfer to a brand new customary: $100,000.

As well as, the UFC will give $25,000 efficiency bonuses to any fighter who wins by knockout or submission – however does not get one of many huge 4 $100K checks.

The information was reported by Sports activities Enterprise Journal, to which White had promised to let break the information. In 2014, MMA Junkie was first to report that the UFC had shifted its post-fight bonus pay construction to $50,000 per award. It had ranged from $40,000 to $75,000 within the years prior, seemingly primarily based on the dimensions of the occasion.

On some events, White has introduced larger bonuses – like $300,000 checks for UFC 300, or further bonus winners when occasions have featured bundles of worthy finishes. However he is additionally railed in opposition to being pressured to provide extra bonus cash up to now. After UFC 304, he mentioned he would by no means be pressured into elevating the bonuses once more.

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“I believe tonight confirmed that we should always not, no,” White mentioned on the time. “Upping them does not change something – it does not make them struggle any tougher. It does not change something. I am not doing this once more. Ever. At the moment was the final day I am doing that.

“I am not saying sooner or later the bonuses could not go up, however I am doing a press convention saying ‘$200(Okay)! $300(Okay)!’ – fcking by no means once more. By no means once more. So you’ll be able to thank all people on this card for that. No one fought any tougher, there was no sense of urgency – ‘Holy sht, I would like the $100,000.’ Seven straight selections … the $100,000 was an actual huge fcking ‘Woo-hoo. Let’s get it, boys.’ Fck that sh*t. By no means once more.”

However now that the UFC is in a brand new $7.7 billion cope with Paramount+, White and different UFC mouthpieces have been saying fighter pay goes to go up drastically in response. There isn’t any getting across the math that the promotion pays out properly greater than double its previous bonus expenditures this yr.

Will the fighters reply is the query that might be answered quickly.

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