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With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from January 2024.
With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from January 2024: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for January.
At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice.
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Jasmine Jasudavicius snapped a stretch of eight straight decisions in a historically lopsided win over Priscila Cachoeira in Toronto.
TORONTO – [autotag]Jasmine Jasudavicius[/autotag] beat Priscila Cachoeira with a third-round submission Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC 297 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
Take a look inside the fight with Jasudavicius, who snapped a stretch of eight straight decisions for her first finish since 2020.
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.
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
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 297.
Check out what the UFC 297 winners and guest fighters had to say backstage at Saturday’s event in Toronto.
TORONTO – UFC 297 took place Saturday with 12 bouts on the lineup. We’ve got you covered with backstage winner interviews from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
You can hear from all the UFC 297 winners by checking out their post-fight news conferences below.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 297.
Priscila Cachoeira had no answers for Jasmine Jasudavicius’ grappling at UFC 297 as the Canadian dominated before a late submission.
TORONTO – [autotag]Jasmine Jasudavicius[/autotag] was nothing short of dominant in front of her home province crowd at UFC 297.
Jasudavicius (10-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC) became the first Canadian fighter to register a win on Saturday’s card at Scotiabank Arena, using her superior grappling to completely overwhelm an overmatch Cachoeira (12-6 MMA, 4-6 UFC) before finishing the fight with an anaconda choke late in the third round of the women’s bantamweight bout.
Cachoeira was en route to losing a lopsided decision before Jasudavicius locked up the choke to get the tap at the 4:21 mark of Round 3. Check out the replay of the finish below (via X):
ABSOLUTE DOMINANCE FROM JASMINE JASUDAVICIUS 😤#UFC297 is LIVE NOW on @ESPNPlus 📺 pic.twitter.com/XJxpgIEM0z
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) January 21, 2024
The matchup between Jasudavicius and Priscila Cachoeira was scheduled to take place at women’s flyweight, but the Brazilian struggled to cut down, so the contracted weight was bumped up to 135 pounds. Jasudavicius shined, and her +300 total strike differential (326 vs. 26) vs. Cachoeira marked a new women’s UFC record and a new overall three-round UFC fight record.
“I got to show a lot more of my grappling,” Jasudavicius said in her post-fight interview with Daniel Cormier. “I love grappling and i want to show how weak I am. She’s good, but I wanted to represent for all the other fighters in Canada.”
Up-to-the-minute results of UFC 297 include:
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 297.
Check out the best photos from Jasmine Jasudavicius’s third-round submission win over Priscila Cachoeira at UFC 297 in Toronto.
Check out the best photos from [autotag]Jasmine Jasudavicius[/autotag]’ third-round submission win over [autotag]Priscila Cachoeira[/autotag] at UFC 297 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. (Photos by Dan Hamilton, USA Today Sports)
All the UFC 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.
Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie or officially announced by the promotions from Nov. 13-19.
Check out all the facts from Noche UFC, which saw Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko join the shortlist of title bouts to end in a draw.
The inaugural Noche UFC event proved to be a massive success for the company, with the Mexican Independence Day celebration going down Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Although she didn’t get the victory, Mexico’s [autotag]Alexa Grasso[/autotag] (16-3-1 MMA, 8-3-1 UFC) still left as women’s flyweight champion after she battled [autotag]Valentina Shevchenko[/autotag] (23-4-1 MMA, 12-3-1 UFC) to a split draw in their main event rematch.
It was a rare result for a title bout, and for more on the numbers, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from Noche UFC.
Noche UFC fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that continued after the UFC’s deal with Venum.
LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s Noche UFC event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $185,500.
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.
Noche UFC took place at T-Mobile Arena. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.
The full Noche UFC UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
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[autotag]Alexa Grasso[/autotag]: $42,000
vs. [autotag]Valentina Shevchenko[/autotag]: $32,000
[autotag]Jack Della Maddalena[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Kevin Holland[/autotag]: $16,000
[autotag]Raul Rosas Jr.[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Terrence Mitchell[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Daniel Zellhuber[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Christos Giagos[/autotag]: $11,000
[autotag]Kyle Nelson[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Fernando Padilla[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Loopy Godinez[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Elise Reed[/autotag]: $6,000
[autotag]Roman Kopylov[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Josh Fremd[/autotag]: $4,500
[autotag]Edgar Chairez[/autotag]: $4,500
vs. [autotag]Daniel Lacerda[/autotag]: $4,500
[autotag]Tracy Cortez[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Jasmine Jasudavicius[/autotag]: $4,500
[autotag]Charlie Campbell[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Alex Reyes[/autotag]: $4,000
[autotag]Josefine Knutsson[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Marnic Mann[/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 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2261 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 2023 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:
Year-to-date total: $6,130,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $20,719,000
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Noche UFC.
