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UFC 314 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Michael Chandler, Paddy Pimblett combine for $12,000

Michael Chandler and Paddy Pimblett combined for a $12,000 payout under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program at UFC 314.

MIAMI – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 314 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $300,500.

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 314 took place at Kaseya Center. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

The full UFC 314 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Alexander Volkanovski[/autotag]: $32,000
def. [autotag]Diego Lopes[/autotag]: $32,000

[autotag]Paddy Pimblett[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Michael Chandler[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jean Silva[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Bryce Mitchell[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Yair Rodriguez[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Patricio Freire[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Dominick Reyes[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Nikita Krylov[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Dan Ige[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Sean Woodson[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Virna Jandiroba[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Yan Xiaonan[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Chase Hooper[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Julian Erosa[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Darren Elkins[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Michal Oleksiejczuk[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Sedriques Dumas[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Su Mudaerji[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Mitch Raposo[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Marco Tulio[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Tresean Gore[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Nora Cornolle[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Hailey Cowan[/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 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 2025 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $2,579,500
2024 total: $8,280,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $33,597,000

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Chase Hooper def. Jim Miller at UFC 314: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Chase Hooper’s win over Jim Miller at UFC 314.

Check out the best photos from [autotag]Chase Hooper[/autotag]’s unanimous decision win over [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] at UFC 314 at Kaseya Center in Miami. (Photos by Sam Navarro, USA Today Sports; MMA Junkie; UFC)

UFC 314’s Jim Miller all for fight-ending eye pokes resulting in disqualification losses

Jim Miller is on board with big penalizations for eye pokes.

MIAMI – [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] is on board with big penalizations for eye pokes.

Eye pokes have caused many controversial moments in the UFC as of late, most recently when Henry Cejudo was on the receiving end of a fight-ending one against Song Yadong in the UFC Fight Night 252 headliner. Cejudo was upset with referee Jason Herzog’s handling of the situation, which resulted in a loss on his record. Cejudo has struggled with his vision since, and plans on competing only one more time before retiring.

Miller (38-18 MMA, 27-17 UFC), who takes on Chase Hooper (15-3-1 MMA, 7-3 UFC) on Saturday’s UFC 314 prelims from Kaseya Center (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+), was asked if he’d be OK for fight-ending eye pokes to result in disqualification losses.

Miller wants to see them treated as a foul.

“Yeah I would – I would,” Miller told MMA Junkie and other reporters Wednesday at UFC 314 media day. “And honestly if that was the case, if you knew that you were going to get disqualified for a poke, I guarantee that you’re going to see a dramatic drop in the amount of pokes that you see. Accidents do happen. It does happen.”

Miller admits he’s been guilty of committing eye pokes himself, and would accept getting disqualified.

“I have been close to poking people in the eye in grappling situations, and when I fought Donald Cerrone the first time, he hurt me to the body in the very first exchange of that fight,” Miller said. “I remember exactly where we were in the octagon, he had me against the cage in his corner, and I tried to shove him away because I wanted some f*cking space, and I felt my finger go into his eye a little bit, and he hit me really, really hard right after that.

“Had the ref stopped the fight for it – hey man, I’m a big boy. I’m a grown man. It was my f*ck up. That’s why it happened. I was hurt, I didn’t want to be in that situation, and if we’re going to have rules, we should follow them. Honestly, I do believe that if we’re going to start actually treating the foul like a foul, then it should be something that causes a disqualification.”

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After 45 UFC fights, Jim Miller realizes Indiana Jones was right

Seventeen years into his UFC career, Jim Miller is admittedly nearing the end of his competitive career.

It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.

Yes, Harrison Ford said that when he played Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Nowadays, [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] is saying the same thing.

For years, Miller (38-18 MMA, 27-17 UFC) has been asked when he plans to retire – if he will ever retire. Though he continues to rack up more wins than losses despite his age, Miller said the miles of 45 fights in the UFC alone are finally starting to add up.

“It’s like being in a little, tiny blowup dingy in the middle of the storm in the pacific,” Miller recently told MMA Junkie. “There are good days. Some days you are really high and you’re feeling good. Other days, you’re down low and you’re not feeling great. That’s kind of the way it is. Honestly, even out of fight camp, you get up with the bumps and bruises and those things where you hop out of bed and are like, ‘Why does that leg hurt?’ or ‘Why is my back tight? What did I do?’ Indiana Jones had the line, ‘It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.’ That’s 100 percent what it is. I’ve got a lot of miles on my body through a couple dozen training camps, UFC training camps. That’s a lot of rounds. It’s a lot of time on the mats with people trying to hit me hard or trying to put me in joint locks or chokes. It adds up. Stuff happens. I’m banged up.”

While Miller might have a limp as he approaches the finish line of a legendary UFC tenure, it’s barely noticeable. He’s won six of his most recent eight bouts. All of those victories were finishes and the defeats were decisions.

Miller, 41, returns April 12 vs. Chase Hooper (15-3-1 MMA, 7-3 UFC) at UFC 314 in Miami. Hooper, 25, was not born until 18 years after “Raiders of the Lost Ark” released. Despite the difference in age, Miller doesn’t think youth necessarily signals advantage.

“We don’t see a gap like this that often, but it’s not weird. It’s the fight game and he’s got what?” Miller said. “A dozen UFC fights at this point? He’s been around for a little bit. He came in super young. It’s kind of what I get for sticking around so long. It was bound to happen to fight guys from yet another generation. Yeah, his youth is definitely a tool for him and a weapon for him. My experience is a weapon for me. We’ll see if he’s able to use his youth and I’m going to try to see if I can use my experience.”

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Like Miller, Hooper is known for his Brazilian jiu-jitsu prowess. Eight of his 15 pro wins have been by submission. While Miller never plans for specific finishing maneuvers, he admitted a submission would be pretty sweet.

“I’ve knocked a few guys out at this point,” Miller said. “Wrapping your arms around somebody’s neck and making them quit? That is the best. Because you can hit somebody hard but there is still part of them that wants to be in that fight. Maybe everything shut off and the computer is rebooting, but there is still some fight left in their body and their psyche. When you make somebody tap, that’s the ultimate, in my opinion. So yeah, I’d love to get that opportunity to get another submission win.”

Former NFL QB Jim Miller slights Lamar Jackson in MVP vote (again)

Every NFL MVP voter except one placed the Baltimore Ravens signal caller first or second.

Unlike what happens when we all go to the polls in November, the NFL MVP award is not a secret ballot. The Associated Press posted a table displaying how all 50 voters voted for the league’s Most Valuable Player honor.

There is a distinct anomaly in Lamar Jackson. Every voter except one placed the Baltimore Ravens signal caller first or second. That specific voter didn’t even put the 2023 NFL MVP in third place.

Jim Miller, yes, Jim Miller, the former Michigan State and Chicago Bears QB, voted Jackson fourth.

It could be that he’s just doing this as a straight-up troll job to get attention for his show on SiriusXM radio. If so, here is that attention that you so strongly ordered.

It could also be that Miller does not respect Jackson’s game as much as other pundits do because this has happened before.

According to Athlon, Miller has a history of odd voting patterns. In 2019, for example, Miller was one of three voters who did not include Jackson on the All-Pro team.

Lamar won the MVP award unanimously that season.

UFC 314 adds Chase Hooper vs. Jim Miller to lineup

Chase Hooper aims to knock off another UFC legend in Jim Miller.

[autotag]Chase Hooper[/autotag] will look to knock off another legend.

At UFC 314, Hooper (15-3-1 MMA, 7-3 UFC) will face [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] (38-18 MMA, 27-17 UFC) in a lightweight bout, which takes place April 12 at Kaseya Center in Miami.

Two people with knowledge of the matchup Tuesday informed MMA Junkie of the booking but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. X user @McGregorRousey2 first reported the fight Monday.

Hooper, 25, rides a four-fight winning streak into the bout, most recently defeating divisional staple Clay Guida by first-round submission at UFC 310 in December. After the win, Hooper called for a fight vs. Miller.

Miller, 41, is the all-time wins (27) and appearances (45) leader in promotion history. The second longest-tenured fighter on the active roster, Miller has been with the promotion since UFC 89 in October 2008. Despite his longevity, Miller still knows how to rack up wins, with four victories in his most recent five appearances.

With the addition, the UFC 314 lineup includes:

  • Virna Jandiroba vs. Yan Xiaonan
  • Nikita Krylov vs. Dominick Reyes
  • Chase Hooper vs. Jim Miller

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Jim Miller still struggles with one condition 45 fights into UFC career

Even though he’s made the UFC walk nearly 50 times, Jim Miller still struggles with something that may come as a surprise.

Even though he’s made the UFC walk nearly 50 times, [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] still struggles with something that may come as a surprise.

Sometimes, the 41-year-old lightweight said, he doesn’t think he should be making the kinds of demands about his fighting career that get made by scores of other fighters with far less experience, cache and tenure than him. He doesn’t even really like to make callouts, let alone tell the UFC brass he demands X, Y or Z before he’ll fight.

“I still feel like I deal with a little bit of imposter syndrome,” Miller told MMA Junkie Radio. “It’s hard for me to even say that stuff. My job is to fight, and that’s what I do. I’m not a matchmaker. I’m not any of that stuff. I’m a fighter, so that’s what I focus my time on.”

But impostor syndrome? Really? Miller (38-18 MMA, 27-17 UFC) is the UFC record-holder for fights with 45 and wins with 27 and is the only fighter to have fought at UFC 100, UFC 200 and UFC 300, the latter of which came earlier this year. He has 15 post-fight bonuses holds a ton of lightweight records.

So what the …?

But for Miller, it’s a real thing. It might help that he manages his own career and does all his own negotiating – a complete throwback fighter who has a throwback mentality outside the cage, too? It’s about perfect. He acknowledges, though, that he’s earned some bona fides, even if he doesn’t use those to make big requests.

“It’s hard, for me at least, to make some of those calls,” Miller said. “I know that I am well-respected and I appreciate the hell out of that, and some of the conversations that I have with guys like Sean Shelby or (Joe) Rogan, I do feel that I’ve earned their respect. I notice how they talk to other fighters and it’s not like it’s demeaning in any way – it’s just that they talk to me a lot more in that peer realm, I feel like. Maybe I’m kidding myself. I don’t know when it started to happen, but I do notice the respect and the appreciation and I do love it – it’s a huge driving force for me.”

Just don’t expect him to try to use that to cash in with other things – even if it’s as simple as not wanting to book fights at the UFC Apex and instead be on upper-shelf pay-per-views. It’d be hard for anyone to deny a request like that from someone with the resume Miller brings to the table.

Despite that, he said it’s still not in his personality to go that route.

“I still have difficulty making those callouts, like saying, ‘Hey, no more Apex cards for me. Jim always wants the big cards – only numbered events at this point.’ That’s a tough one for me.”

Miller fought three times in the 2024 calendar year, up a fight from the two a year he had in 2023, 2022 and 2021.

In 44 UFC fights, he has been on numbered pay-per-view cards half the time. He’s gone 15-6 in 22 pay-per-view appearances with a no contest.

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UFC all-time wins leader Jim Miller issues a rare callout

Jim Miller already is the UFC’s all-time wins leader. Now he’s like a shot at a longtime featherweight standout.

[autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] already is the UFC’s all-time wins leader, and from a percentage standpoint, he’s the leader by a landslide.

Miller’s 27 UFC wins are a 17 percent bump from the next few on the list, including former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira, with 23. In the race to 30, which at the UFC’s inception and early era would have been nearly unthinkable, Miller obviously is the most likely candidate to get there first.

Now, there was a time when Miller getting to 30 would’ve been almost unthinkable, too. In the late teens, he dropped five of six fights when battling (mostly unknowingly) Lyme disease. And in the early pandemic era, he lost three of four.

But he’s won six of his past eight and has three performance bonuses in that stretch. And while he’s been getting asked about retirement for years already, the 41-year-old has no time to think about that if he’s busy thinking about when he wants to get back – and against whom.

Miller said he’d love a fight against Cub Swanson, a 41-year-old featherweight who has won five of eight with four bonuses.

“I don’t really try to like get hung up on (who I’m going to fight),” Miller told MMA Junkie Radio. “I have preferences. I am a huge, huge fan of Cub Swanson. I would love to fight that guy. I know he’d be coming up in weight class. I think it’d be a fight that would get some draw. (He’s) super dangerous. If there’s time on the clock, he’s fighting hard. He’s not giving up.

“I’m a huge fan of his. I would love that fight. I don’t know what his schedule looks like. I don’t know what his body’s like. I don’t like asking for people at certain times because I don’t know what the f*ck they’re dealing with or if they’ve got other fights and all that stuff.”

Miller said he’d love to get back in the cage in the first quarter of the new year, in the March range. Swanson just knocked out Billy Quarantillo at UFC on ESPN 63 in the Fight of the Night. His turnaround would be reasonably quick, as would Miller’s. He fought a month prior and submitted Damon Jackson at UFC 309 in New York.

Miller said his history of having opponents fall out of fights has led him to a training strategy that plans on being surprised. So while he’d love a showdown with Swanson, the “any time, anywhere” philosophy he’s known for shines through.

“I’ve probably had more opponents drop out than anybody you know in UFC history. I can think of at least at 10, maybe more than that with opponent changes,” Miller said. “So I get ready for the night and I prepare myself and I’m not super hung up on who is in front of me. For me to focus on a guy, I just feel like that’s kind of silly on my part because who the f*ck knows what’s going to happen? Maybe they’re going to get hurt, or something else is going to happen.

“So just tell me when and where and I’ll be there, and whoever you get to show up and stand across from me in the octagon, I’ll fight. Whether it’s a guy making his debut, like I’ve had a few of, or if it’s a 30-plus (fights) UFC veteran, which I’ve had a few of, let’s let’s do it.”

Check out Miller’s full interview in the video above.

MMA Junkie Radio #3524: Grant Dawson, Jim Miller interviews, more

Check out the latest episode of MMA Junkie Radio with “Gorgeous” George and “Goze.”

Thursday’s episode of MMA Junkie Radio with “Gorgeous” George and “Goze” is here.

On Episode 3,524, the fellas welcome in a pair of UFC guests: [autotag]Grant Dawson[/autotag] and [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag]. The guys also discuss the MMA Junkie Male Fighter of the Year selection for 2024: [autotag]Ilia Topuria[/autotag]. Tune in!

Chase Hooper welcomes matchup with all-time wins leader Jim Miller after UFC 310

Chase Hooper was 9 years old when Jim Miller made his UFC debut, yet a fight between them could materialize in 2025.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Chase Hooper[/autotag] isn’t trying to go after the oldest names in the lightweight division, but it could be the way the stars align after UFC 310.

Hooper (15-3-1 MMA, 7-3 UFC) improved to 4-0 since moving up to 155 pounds from featherweight on Saturday when he submitted Clay Guida with an armbar in the opening round of their fight at T-Mobile Arena.

The matchup between Hooper, 25, and Guida, 43, marked the largest age disparity between opponents in modern UFC history, and the younger fighter got it done.

In the aftermath of the performance, Hooper was floated the idea of a matchup with [autotag]Jim Miller[/autotag] next. Despite being 41, Miller (38-18 MMA, 27-17 UFC) has won six of his past eight octagon appearances and holds multiple all-time records in the company, including most wins in UFC history.

“I don’t see why not,” Hooper told MMA Junkie and other reporters of a matchup with Miller post-fight at UFC 310. “I felt kind of the same way about Clay. He’s an older guy, for sure, but he’s still doing the damn thing. He’s still in here going against these young guys and he’s still doing well. Jim’s still subbing guys. And that’d be a good fight. If it wasn’t such a stacked card like this I felt like me and Clay could be on the main card on a lot of events. I think that would be a fun one. Why not?”

Hooper made his UFC debut in December 2019 as a wide-eyed 19-year-old signed off Dana White’s Contender Series. Many questioned his ability to make a career for himself on this stage after some rough early performances, but now Hooper is coming into form and the results have proved it.

With 10 UFC fights now under his belt, Hooper is now comfortable and confident. That’s only going to keep growing, and he said it might not be long until he can show off his skills again.

“I’m 25 now,” Hooper said. “It’s been seven years since I’ve been on the Contender Series and I feel like a completely different fighter. This is normal to me. It feels good. It feels like I am ready.

“It seems they might try to get me for the Seattle card now (on Feb. 22). If the matchup is right, we’ll do it. Physically I don’t feel too bad. If they want to shelf me a little bit longer, we’ll go on vacation. I’m feeling good either way.”

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