UFC Fight Night 209 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Headliner Ciryl Gane nets $6k

UFC Fight Night 209 fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that continued after the UFC’s deal with Venum.

PARIS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 209 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $155,000.

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 209 took place at Accor Arena. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 209 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Ciryl Gane[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Tai Tuivasa[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Robert Whittaker[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Marvin Vettori[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Nassourdine Imavov[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Joaquin Buckley[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Roman Kopylov[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Alessio Di Chirico[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]William Gomis[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Jarno Errens[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Nathaniel Wood[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Abus Magomedov[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Dustin Stoltzfus[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Nasrat Haqparast[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]John Makdessi[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Fares Ziam[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Michal Figlak[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Benoit Saint-Denis[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Gabriel Miranda[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Christian Quinonez[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Khalid Taha[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Stephanie Egger[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Ailin Perez[/autotag]: $4,000

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 2097 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2091 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:

Year-to-date total: $5,969,000
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $12,136,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 209.

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Stephanie Egger def. Ailin Perez at UFC Fight Night 209: Best photos

Check out these photos from Stephanie Egger’s victory over Ailin Perez at UFC Fight NIght 209 in Paris.

Check out these photos from [autotag]Stephanie Egger[/autotag]’s submission victory over Ailin Perez at UFC Fight Night 209 in Paris. (Photos by Per Haljestam, USA TODAY Sports)

UFC Fight Night 209: Best photos from Paris

Check out these photos from the fights at UFC Fight Night 209 in Paris, featuring Gane vs. Tuivasa, Whittaker vs. Vettori, and more.

Check out these photos from the fights at UFC Fight Night 209 at Accor Arena in Paris. (Photos by Per Haljestam, USA TODAY Sports)

(Gallery updated throughout the event.)

 

UFC Fight Night 209 video: Stephanie Egger spoils Ailin Perez’s debut in France opener

Ailin Perez talked – and twerked – a big game ahead of her debut at UFC Fight Night 209, but she couldn’t deliver vs. Stephanie Egger.

PARIS – [autotag]Ailin Perez[/autotag] came into her octagon debut at UFC Fight Night 209 with a lot of pep in her step and talking a big game about her plan to dethrone Amanda Nunes.

Unfortunately for her, [autotag]Stephanie Egger[/autotag] had other plans in the women’s featherweight bout, which went down at Accor Arena in Paris and marked the first UFC fight in France.

After getting control of grappling positions on multiple instances, Egger (8-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) finally got a rear-naked choke that forced a tap from Perez (7-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at the 4:54 mark of Round 2.

Check out a replay of the finish below (via Twitter):

Egger got the win after stepping into the fight as a replacement on less than one week’s notice. She delivered one of her better performances inside the octagon, and said she was pleased that she was able to overcome a naturally bigger opponent.

“I wasn’t surprised (that I won),” Egger said in her post-fight interview with Michael Bisping. “She’s very strong. She fights at featherweight, I normally fight at bantamweight.”

The latest UFC Fight Night 209 results include:

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Why UFC newcomer Ailin Perez made twerking a tradition in her fighting career

Twerking at weigh-ins was not a spontaneous thing for Ailin Perez.

If you thought the twerking from prospect [autotag]Ailin Perez[/autotag] was a one-off, spontaneous thing of the moment, then you thought wrong.

The Argentine fighter has been twerking long before her UFC debut at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 209 event in Paris. Through her promising rise in South America, Perez (7-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has garnered the attention of many with her fierce fighting skills and colorful personality outside the cage.

And at Friday’s ceremonial weigh-ins, ‘Fiona’ gave the UFC fans a sneak peek of what she’s about, and also what’s in store for her UFC rise.

“I enjoy it and that’s the way I express my happiness,” Perez told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “Apart from being a fighter, I was also a dancer. I danced reggaeton, salsa, and bachata, so that’s in my blood.

“Many people say, ‘If you know how to dance, you know how to fight.’ I enjoy it, and that’s a way I express my happiness. I have the assassin side of me, and my happy part. That’s how ‘Fiona’ is. Princess Fiona is an ogre who dances, who’s very sweet, but when it comes time to fight, she’s firm and moves forward. That’s why they call me that.”

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Perez takes on Stephanie Egger in a women’s featherweight bout to open up the event. The 27-year-old is not afraid to make her goal known. She wants to fight Amanda Nunes and become UFC champion in the future.

“She’s the best and I want to go against the best fighters,” Perez said. “Maybe it’s not the time right now, but I’m not going to waste any opportunities. I didn’t come here to play games, I come here to give it my all in the UFC. The women’s featherweight division basically doesn’t exist, and I’m fighting in that division. So Saturday, I’m going to show I have what it takes to fight Amada Nunes.”

There’s no doubt Perez has plenty of ambition. She’s eager to show her skillas and personality to the masses, and that journey starts on Saturday with Egger.

“You guys haven’t even seen 10 percent of who I am personally, so expect more from me,” Perez said. “The better I do in this journey, the more you guys will enjoy with me. And as far as inside the cage, I’m an assassin. I know I’m going to knock her out in the first round and send her home in a lot of pain.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 209.

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