Jim Miller walked away with a six-figure payday after UFC on ESPN 11.
[autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] walked away with a six-figure payday after UFC on EPSN 11.
After choking out rising lightweight fighter [autotag]Roosevelt Roberts[/autotag] in the first round of their main card bout Saturday, Miller (32-14 MMA, 21-13 UFC) pocketed $208,0000.
MMA Junkie today acquired a list of fighter salaries from the Nevada Athletic Commission for Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11 event, which took place at UFC Apex in Las Vegas, airing on ESPN and streaming on ESPN+.
Miller, 36, was not the only fighter to earn a six-figure paycheck at the event.
Headline victor [autotag]Curtis Blaydes[/autotag] earned $180,000 for his unanimous decision victory over [autotag]Alexander Volkov[/autotag]. Co-headliner participant [autotag]Josh Emmett[/autotag] took home $152,000 as a result of his back-and-forth brawl win over [autotag]Shane Burgos[/autotag]. [autotag]Belal Muhammad[/autotag] earned $100,000 for his unanimous decision victory against [autotag]Lyman Good[/autotag]. Former UFC women’s bantamweight title challenger [autotag]Raquel Pennington[/autotag] collected $126,000 for her unanimous decision win against [autotag]Marion Reneau[/autotag].
The total disclosed pay for the 12-fight card was $1,655,000.
The full list of UFC on ESPN 10 salaries includes:
The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, including the official UFC on ESPN 11 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay. They also do not include any other “locker room” or special discretionary bonuses the UFC sometimes pays. They also do not include pay-per-view cuts that some top-level fighters receive.
For example, UFC officials also handed out a “Fight of the Night” bonus to Emmett and Burgos – and two $50,000 “Performance of the Night” bonuses to Jaynes and Miller.
In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
Check out all the facts and figures from UFC on ESPN 11, which saw Curtis Blaydes defeat Alexander Volkov in Las Vegas.
The UFC’s run of events continued Saturday with UFC on ESPN 11, which took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and aired on ESPN/ESPN+.
The main event featured a historic performance from [autotag]Curtis Blaydes[/autotag] (14-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC), who beat [autotag]Alexander Volkov[/autotag] (31-8 MMA, 5-2 UFC) by unanimous decision with the help of a record number of takedowns landed.
It was one of several notable happenings to occur on the card. For more on the numbers, check below for 55 post-event facts to come out of UFC on ESPN 11.
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General
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The UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payout for the event totaled $178,500.
Debuting fighters went 1-1 at the event.
[autotag]Josh Emmett[/autotag], [autotag]Shane Burgos[/autotag], [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] and [autotag]Justin Jaynes[/autotag] earned $50,000 UFC on ESPN 11 fight-night bonuses.
UFC on ESPN 11 drew an announced attendance of zero for a live gate of $0.
Betting favorites went 7-5 on the card.
Betting favorites improved to 9-6 (currently 8-6) in UFC headliners this year.
Total fight time for the 12-bout card was 2:32:32.
Main card
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Blaydes’ four-fight UFC winning streak in heavyweight competition is tied with Francis Ngannou and Augusto Sakai for the longest active streak in the division.
Blaydes’ 14 takedowns landed set the single-fight record for a UFC heavyweight bout.
Blaydes’ 14 takedowns landed are tied for the third most in a single UFC fight behind Khabib Nurmagomedov (21 at UFC 160) and Sean Sherk (16 at UFC 73).
Blaydes’ 59 takedowns landed in UFC heavyweight competition are most in divisional history.
Volkov fell to 7-2 since his final Bellator bout in June 2015.
Volkov has suffered four of his seven career losses by decision.
Emmett (16-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) improved to 5-1 since he dropped to the UFC featherweight division in October 2017.
Emmett has landed 10 knockdowns in his past six fights.
Emmett’s 10 knockdowns landed in UFC featherweight competition are second most in divisional history behind Jeremy Stephens (11).
Burgos (13-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) suffered the first decision loss of his career.
[autotag]Raquel Pennington[/autotag]’s (11-8 MMA, 8-5 UFC) eight victories in UFC women’s bantamweight competition are second most in divisional history behind Amanda Nunes (11).
Pennington’s total fight time of 3:07:33 in UFC women’s bantamweight competition is most in divisional history.
Pennington has earned six of her eight UFC victories by decision.
[autotag]Marion Reneau[/autotag]’s (9-6-1 MMA, 5-5-1 UFC) three-fight losing skid is the longest of her career. She hasn’t earned a victory since February 2018.
Reneau has suffered all six of her career losses by decision.
[autotag]Belal Muhammad[/autotag] (17-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) improved to 7-1 in his past eight fights dating back to February 2017. His lone defeat came against Geoff Neal at UFC on ESPN+ 1.
Muhammad has earned 12 of his 17 career victories by decision. That includes six of his eight UFC wins.
[autotag]Lyman Good[/autotag] (21-6 MMA, 3-3 UFC) has alternated wins and losses over his past six fights.
Good has suffered five of his six career losses by decision.
Miller’s (32-14 MMA, 21-13 UFC) 21 victories in UFC competition are third most in company history behind Donald Cerrone (23) and Demian Maia (22).
Miller’s 10 submission victories in UFC competition are tied with Royce Gracie for third most in history behind Charles Oliveira (14) and Demian Maia (11).
Miller’s 43 submission attempts in UFC competition are the most in company history.
[autotag]Roosevelt Roberts[/autotag] (10-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) suffered the first submission loss of his career.
Preliminary card
[autotag]Clay Guida[/autotag] (35-20 MMA, 15-14 UFC) fell to 3-3 since he returned to the UFC lightweight division in June 2017.
Guida’s 54 takedowns landed in UFC lightweight competition are third most in divisional history behind Gleison Tibau (84) and Khabib Nurmagomedov (57).
[autotag]Tecia Torres[/autotag]’ (11-5 MMA, 7-5 UFC) snapped her four-fight losing skid for her first victory since December 2017.
Torres’ seven victories in UFC strawweight competition are tied for second most in divisional history behind Joanna Jedrzejczyk (10).
Torres has earned 10 of her 11 career victories by decision.
[autotag]Brianna Van Buren[/autotag] (9-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has suffered all three of her career losses by decision.
[autotag]Marc-Andre Barriault[/autotag] (12-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) snapped his three-fight losing skid for his first victory since September 2018.
[autotag]Oskar Piechota[/autotag] (11-4-1 MMA, 2-4 UFC) has suffered four consecutive losses after starting his career on a 12-fight unbeaten streak.
Piechota has suffered all four of his career losses by stoppage.
[autotag]Gillian Robertson[/autotag]’s (8-4 MMA, 5-2 UFC) five victories in UFC women’s flyweight competition are tied with Valentina Shevchenko and Katlyn Chookagian for most in divisional history.
Robertson’s five stoppage victories in UFC women’s flyweight competition are most in divisional history.
Robertson’s four submission victories in UFC women’s flyweight competition are most in divisional history.
[autotag]Cortney Casey[/autotag] (9-8 MMA, 4-7 UFC) fell to 1-1 since she moved up to the UFC women’s flyweight division in May.
Casey fell to 2-4 in her past six fights since January 2017.
Casey has suffered both of her career stoppage losses by submission.
[autotag]Frank Camacho[/autotag] (22-9 MMA, 2-5 uFC) fell to 2-3 since he dropped to the UFC lightweight division in November 2017.
Camacho has suffered seven of his nine career losses by stoppage.
[autotag]Lauren Murphy[/autotag] (13-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) improved to 4-1 since she dropped to the UFC flyweight division in December 2017.
Murphy’s three-fight UFC winning streak at women’s flyweight is tied for the second longest active streak in the division behind Shevchenko (five).
Murphy’s four victories in UFC women’s flyweight competition are tied for fourth most in divisional history behind Shevchenko (five), Chookagian (five) and Robertson (five).
[autotag]Roxanne Modafferi[/autotag] (24-17 MMA, 3-5 UFC) has alternated wins and losses over her past eight fights.
Modafferi has suffered 13 of her 17 career losses by decision. That includes all five of her UFC defeats.
[autotag]Max Rohskopf[/autotag] (5-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had his five-fight winning streak snapped for the first defeat of his career.
UFC research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript.
UFC on ESPN 11 fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that launched after the UFC’s deal with Reebok.
LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11 event took home event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $178,500.
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 11 took place at the UFC Apex. The card aired on ESPN and ESPN+.
The full UFC on ESPN 11 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Reebok’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 $3,500 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,000; 6-10 bouts get $5,000; 11-15 bouts earn $10,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $15,000; and 21 bouts and more get $20,000. Additionally, champions earn $40,000 while title challengers get $30,000.
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 2020 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:
Check out all the fighter walkout songs from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11 event.
While it takes intense training, world-class skills and maybe even a bit of luck to register a UFC win, picking the right song to accompany you to the cage is a key talent, as well.
See what the fighters from UFC on ESPN 11 went with as their backing tracks in Las Vegas.
[autotag]Austin Hubbard[/autotag]: “At My Leisure (Freestyle)” by Steelo Bass
[autotag]Max Rohskopf[/autotag]: “Pony” by Ginuwine
The Blue Corner is MMA Junkie’s blog space. We don’t take it overly serious, and neither should you. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, expect to have the previous sentence repeated in ALL CAPS.
MMA Junkie senior editor Dave Doyle preps you for UFC on ESPN 11 with the event’s key storylines heading in.
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The run of events at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas continues Saturday night with UFC on ESPN 11.
The cards put on by the promotion since the schedule resumed in late April have run the gamut from the exciting to, well, the considerably less than exciting. That’s simply how things will play out in a mad scramble to put together shows amid all sorts of coronavirus pandemic-related restrictions at a time the company is laser-focused on getting in its full slate of 2020 cards.
This time around, we can say with confidence the card, on paper, appears to be solid from top to bottom, with plenty of reason to tune in from the opening fight on up to the main event.
In the that main event, an important heavyweight bout will take place as the division rounds back into shape, with [autotag]Curtis Blaydes[/autotag], who has been knocking on the door awhile, taking on former Bellator champion [autotag]Alexander Volkov[/autotag].
Without further ado, here are five burning questions heading into UFC on ESPN 11.
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Where will the Blaydes-Volkov winner land?
Curtis Blaydes
Imagine, for a moment, that Volkov (31-7 MMA, 5-1 UFC) doesn’t lose focus during the closing seconds of a UFC 229 fight with Derrick Lewis he had all but sealed. Had Lewis not landed a buzzer-beater knockout, Volkov would be on an eight-fight win streak, six in the UFC, and no doubt high in the title mix.
As for Blaydes (13-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC)? Well, there’s no doubt about his “what if:” Blaydes is 8-2 in the UFC, and both of those losses have come to Francis Ngannou, which isn’t exactly a pair of defeats for which one should be ashamed.
The top of the heavyweight division is once again coming back online, with champion Stipe Miocic and former titleholder Daniel Cormier set to meet Aug. 15. Presumably, Ngannou is next in line now that the mania of a potential Jon Jones fight has come and gone.
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Blaydes is coming off his biggest career win with an impressive second-round stoppage of former champ Junior Dos Santos in January. Volkov shook off his shocking loss to Lewis, defeated Greg Hardy in November, and can prove he’s still a face near the top of the division with a win.
The winner of this fight isn’t going to vault ahead of Ngannou in the pecking order, but a strong performance here could put the winner in position to get into position should anything go awry in the UFC’s title plans.
Tecia Torres will attempt to snap the longest losing skid of her career when she meets Brianna Van Buren in a strawweight matchup.
[autotag]Tecia Torres[/autotag] will attempt to snap the longest losing skid of her career when she meets [autotag]Brianna Van Buren[/autotag] in a strawweight matchup.
MMA Junkie verified with multiple people close to the situation that Torres (10-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC) and Van Buren (9-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) have agreed to meet on the UFC’s June 20 event. Both fighters have since confirmed the pairing on social media, but UFC has yet to make an official announcement.
The card is expected to take place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, but that’s pending Nevada Athletic Commission approval to resume combat sports in the state after the coronavirus pandemic forced a pause.
Torres is sitting on a four-fight losing skid, albeit to top-level competition in champion Zhang Weili, former champions Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Jessica Andrade, as well as undefeated contender Marina Rodriguez. “The Tiny Tornado” hasn’t won since December 2017, and will attempt to avoid becoming the first female in UFC history to suffer five consecutive octagon losses.
Van Buren will attempt to be the one responsible for making Torres set that record, as she looks to pick up the biggest win of her career in her sophomore octagon effort. “The Bull” won her octagon debut in July, outworking Linvinha Souza to a decision at UFC on ESPN+ 13.
With the addition, the latest lineup for UFC’s June 20 event includes:
Angela Hill steps in to take on Hannah Cifers at UFC on ESPN+ 24.
[autotag]Angela Hill[/autotag] is stepping in on short notice once again to save the day.
Hill (10-7 MMA, 5-7 UFC) is set to replace [autotag]Brianna Van Buren[/autotag] against [autotag]Hannah Cifers[/autotag] (10-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) at UFC on ESPN+ 24. A person with knowledge of the matchup informed MMA Junkie of the change, but requested anonymity since the UFC has yet to make an announcement.
Van Buren was forced out of the bout due to undisclosed reasons.
UFC on ESPN+ 24 takes place Jan. 25 at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C. The card streams on ESPN+.
The replacement scenario will mark the third time in Hill’s past four fights that Hill steps in on short notice. She is coming off a third-round doctor’s stoppage win over Ariane Carnelossi in September, which was her fourth fight in 2019. She will look to string two wins in a row for the first time in her UFC career when she takes on Cifers.
Since dropping her UFC debut to Maycee Barber, Cifers has notched back-to-back wins over Polyana Viana, and most recently Jodie Esquibel at UFC 241 in August. She now gets the opportunity to fight close to home in Raleigh.
With the change, the current UFC on ESPN+ 24 lineup includes:
A strawweight contest between Hannah Cifers and Brianna Van Buren is the latest addition to the UFC Raleigh card.
A strawweight bout is the latest addition to UFC Raleigh.
[autotag]Hannah Cifers[/autotag] will take on [autotag]Brianna Van Buren[/autotag] on the Jan. 25 card. A person with knowledge of the booking recently informed MMA Junkie of the contest but requested anonymity since the UFC has yet to make an announcement.
UFC Raleigh will take place at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., and is expected to stream on ESPN+.
After dropping her UFC debut, Cifers (10-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) rebounded with two straight wins over Polyana Viana, and Jodie Esquibel at UFC 241 in August, as she gets the opportunity to fight close to home when she takes on Van Buren.
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A former Invicta FC strawweight champion, Van Buren (9-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) made her UFC debut in July, defeating Livinha Renata Souza via unanimous decision, and extending her win streak to six.
The latest lineup for the Jan. 25 fight card includes:
