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UFC 297 post-event facts: Dricus Du Plessis, Raquel Pennington make history in title wins

The best facts to come out of UFC 297, which saw two new champions crowned with historic achievements attached to both new reigns.

The UFC’s first pay-per-view of the year is likely to prove to be far from the most memorable, but UFC 297 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto did prove significant with two new champions crowned.

In the main event, [autotag]Dricus Du Plessis[/autotag] (21-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) edged [autotag]Sean Strickland[/autotag] (28-6 MMA, 15-6 UFC) by split decision in the Fight of the Night to claim the middleweight championship. In the co-headliner, [autotag]Raquel Pennington[/autotag] (16-8 MMA, 13-5 UFC) outlasted [autotag]Mayra Bueno Silva[/autotag] (10-3-1 MMA, 5-3-1 UFC) for a unanimous decision for the vacant women’s bantamweight title.

For more on the numbers behind the title fights, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts for UFC 297.

UFC 297 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Sean Strickland’s $42,000 tops card

Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 297 took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $285,500.

TORONTO – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 297 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $285,500.

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 297 took place at Scotiabank Arena in Canada. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPNews and ESPN+.

The full UFC 297 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Dricus Du Plessis[/autotag]: $32,000
def. [autotag]Sean Strickland[/autotag]: $42,000

[autotag]Raquel Pennington[/autotag]: $32,000
def. [autotag]Mayra Bueno Silva[/autotag]: $32,000

[autotag]Neil Magny[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Mike Malott[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Chris Curtis[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Marc-Andre Barriault[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Movsar Evloev[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Arnold Allen[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Garrett Armfield[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Brad Katona[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Sean Woodson[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Ramon Taveras[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Serhiy Sidey[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Gillian Robertson[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Sam Patterson[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Yohan Lainesse[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Jasmine Jasudavicius[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Priscila Cachoeira[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jimmy Flick[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Malcolm Gordon[/autotag]: $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 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 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 2024 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $445,000
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $23,152,000

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Sean Woodson def. Charles Jourdain at UFC 297: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Sean Woodson’s split decision win over Charles Jourdain at UFC 297 in Toronto.

Check out the best photos from [autotag]Sean Woodson[/autotag]’s split decision win over [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag] at UFC 297 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. (Photos by Dan Hamilton, USA Today Sports)

Charles Jourdain knows he can’t let ‘fans’ thirst for blood’ affect his composure at UFC 297

Charles Jourdain says he’s not about to let the excitement of fighting in his home country negatively impact his performance at UFC 297.

TORONTO – [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag] says he’s not about to let the excitement of fighting in his home country negatively impact his performance at UFC 297.

Jourdain (15-6-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC) will compete in Canada for the first time in his UFC career when he takes on Sean Woodson (10-1-1 MMA, 4-1-1 UFC) in Saturday’s event at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

With an over 85 percent finish rate, the Quebec-born fighter expects fans to be fiending for an action-packed fight.

“Yes, but I need to make sure that the fans’ thirst for blood doesn’t get mixed between mine,” Jourdain told MMA Junkie and other reporters at Wednesday’s UFC 296 media day. “I need to stay very strategic with Sean, because I think one of his most dangerous attacks is the knee down the middle, and I’m a pressure fighter. So I need to be very careful I don’t lose my composure because you guys are screaming so much.”

Jourdain admits that sometimes he can’t help it. While strategy is important, his thirst for blood overtakes it at times, but he’s working on finding the perfect balance.

“I was fortunately born with it,” Jourdain said. “I was never a very skilled fighter, but I had balls when I was younger. In TKO, I became double champ and I never had strategy during a fight. It’s like, ‘Oh, you’re fighting this guy, what’s your strategy?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know, I’m going to punch him.’ So, I never had that much strategy.

“But now, building up with time, aging, I see that it’s very important to apply not only strategy but – you can see it, there are a lot of guys that are very good strategists when it comes to fighting, but they don’t have that extra blood thirst and unfortunately when they reach that level where you need to mix the two, it doesn’t go well for them. So, I’m blessed to have that thirst for blood.”

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Charles Jourdain finally explained that awkward tweet about his stepsister before UFC 297

We’re not sure the explanation did anything to make it less awkward. 😳

[autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag] is no doubt a fun UFC fighter to follow on X, but even for an account as unfiltered as his, he shared one tweet not too long ago that raised eyebrows.

Perhaps you remember it? It was this one about his stepsister on Nov. 24:

Oh really? That’s awkward.

If you’ve been wondering what those words meant ever since Jourdain hit send, we got our answer during Wednesday’s UFC 297 media day in Toronto, where The Mac Life’s Oscar Willis courageously asked him where that philosophy comes from.

“It’s important to take chances in life. I should’ve phrased it that way,” Jourdain said. “No, I’m just having fun with Twitter. Yeah, I’m having fun. It’s a fun role that I say stupid stuff. And I’m not that related. We have the same father, but we have a different mother, so we’re not that close.”

And then he gave a wink.

We’re not sure that did anything to make it less awkward lol.

Anyway, Jourdain (15-6-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC) has a fight this Saturday at UFC 297 (pay-per-view, ESPN+). He meets Sean Woodson in a featherweight bout at Scotiabank Arena.

Hopefully his stepsister-inspired strategy works!

Video: ‘UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis’ media day interviews

Before UFC 297 on Saturday, the main card and prelim fighters are scheduled to speak to reporters at media day.

TORONTO – UFC 297 takes place Saturday at Scotiabank Arena with a main card that airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

Before fight night arrives, though, notable athletes from the card spoke to reporters Wednesday at media day.

If you happen to miss any of the individual sessions on the live stream, check below for the archived videos of each fighter’s session.

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Charles Jourdain wants ‘a lot more money’ to face ranked names with UFC 297 win

Charles Jourdain says there are major financial and career implications attached to his UFC 297 fight vs. Sean Woodson.

TORONTO – [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag] says there are major financial and career implications attached to his UFC 297 fight vs. Sean Woodson.

Jourdain (15-6-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC) will face Woodson (10-1-1 MMA, 4-1-1 UFC) on the Jan. 20 card at Scotiabank Arena in his native Canada, and a victory would put him on a three-fight winning streak in the featherweight division.

That would likely position Jourdain to get someone on the lower end of the 145-pound rankings, and it would come at a good time as his current UFC contract nears its end. Jourdain knows there are two sides to the coin of his looming scenario, however, if he continues to move upward in the pecking order, he said both his compensation from the UFC, as well as his mentality, have to change.

“That will be the third fight on my contract, which will make me at the potential of re-signing,” Jourdain told MMA Junkie at Tuesday’s UFC 297 on-sale press conference. “Coming with the best scenario that I win convincingly against Sean, if I’m fighting for the rankings next, I want a lot more money, more dangerous fighters, and those fighters aren’t only good at fighting, they’re good at winning. I learned that there’s a big difference with that.

“Those guys have a tendency to win a lot more by decisions because they know how to win rounds, and they have strategies how to win, more than strategies how to beat you. So, if I’m fighting these guys, it takes away a little bit of the excitement. A couple of them are super cool to fight, but a couple of them are more there to win, they’re not there to fight. I want my fair share if I fight these guys, because you’re taking a lot of the fun out of fighting for me with these type of guys.”

First things first, however, Jourdain has a stern test in Woodson, who is riding a four-fight winning streak and has lost just once in his MMA career. Jourdain is thankful Woodson accepted the fight and gave him a chance to perform on home soil.

“It’s a good matchup,” Jourdain said. “Sean Woodson’s a tall striker. The matchup is pretty well. There was other names in the bucket, and in the end they said Sean Woodson’s the only one that wants to come to Toronto. The other guys want to do it elsewhere. The venue could be anywhere, I don’t mind, but for this one, the UFC really pushed for me to be here.”

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Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Nov. 6-12)

All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were first reported or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie or officially announced by the promotions from Nov. 6-12.

MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month for September: Alexander Volkov secures rare choke

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submission from September 2023.

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from September 2023: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for September.

At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice.

Nominees

Charles Jourdain wants Cub Swanson next, fueled by negative interaction: ‘I’ll punch you, motherf*cker’

UFC Fight Night 228 winner Charles Jourdain says he wants Cub Swanson next.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Charles Jourdain[/autotag] wants to fight veteran Cub Swanson, especially after their most recent interaction.

Jourdain called out Swanson after his submission win at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 228 at the UFC Apex. Jourdain (15-6-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC) tapped Ricardo Ramos (16-5 MMA, 7-4 UFC) with a guillotine choke in the first round of their featherweight contest.

After the fight, in his post-fight interview with Michael Bisping, Jourdain shot his shot.

“I saw Cub Swanson around,” Jourdain said. “I know I said I wasn’t going to call anyone out, but Barboza doesn’t want it and I just fought two very good Brazilians. So Cub, let’s fight in Toronto. Canadian fans deserve a very good fight between the new school and the old school.”

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Jourdain didn’t plan on calling anyone out, but a negative interaction with Swanson during fight week changed his mind.

“I just had another interaction with him a couple of days ago with him,” Jourdain said at the UFC Fight Night 228 post-fight news conference. “I went to shake his hand, you guys know me, I’m a very nice guy, and he was sizing me all the time. I’m like, ‘Dude, f*ck you.’ I’m not a mean guy. I said congratulations on your last victory, and he was like, ‘Yeah, thank you.’ Ok, I’ll punch you, motherf*cker.”

Apart from not having a pleasant interaction with Swanson, Jourdain also thinks that fight makes all the sense in the world.

“Cub, I wouldn’t be asking for him if he was going down, but he just fought Hakeem (Dawodu) in a very nice fight and Hakeem is a very capable man,” Jourdain said. “He’s one of my fellow Canadians. Yes, it was for some people controversial, but Cub looked fantastic in there. It’s a big name. It’s a fun fight for me. It’s a fun fight for the fans. They can use the fact that I’ve been calling him out since I was 23 years old and yeah to build up something. If he wants to.”

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