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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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.
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[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
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Lyman Good entered UFC on ESPN 11 with a heavy heart after the recent death of his father.
[autotag]Lyman Good[/autotag] entered UFC on ESPN 11 with a heavy heart. After it was all over, he admitted it was too heavy.
Good, who returned to action after a recent bout with COVID-19, revealed during fight week that his father recently died, and he was forthcoming about wanting to get a victory to honor his memory on the eve of Father’s Day.
Unfortunately for Good, he came up short, as he lost a close unanimous decision to Belal Muhammad by three scores of 29-28 Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Afterward, Good issued a statement on Twitter explaining that he just wasn’t completely into the fight.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t get the win tonight,” Good said. “Tried to honor my father but my heart wasn’t in the cage with me.”
I'm sorry I couldn't get the win tonight. Tried to honor my father but my heart wasn't in the cage with me. Congratulations to @bullyb170 for his win and sharing the cage with me tonight. Good luck to my brother @HurricaneShaneB tonight!!! pic.twitter.com/7jFwJCgnVM
I’m sorry I couldn’t get the win tonight. Tried to honor my father but my heart wasn’t in the cage with me. Congratulations to @bullyb170 for his win and sharing the cage with me tonight. Good luck to my brother @HurricaneShaneB tonight!!!
The result means that Good has alternated losses and wins in last five fights, pushing his UFC record to 3-3.
Good (21-6 MMA, 3-3 UFC), who lives and trains in New York, originally was expected to face Muhammad (17-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) on April 18 at UFC 249. However, two weeks before the event, Good was forced to withdraw. He later revealed himself as the first UFC fighter to test positive for the novel coronavirus.
Previewing Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11 fight between Belal Muhammad and Lyman Good, with MMA betting odds, picks, tips and bets.
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Belal Muhammad and Lyman Good will battle in a welterweight bout on the main card at UFC on ESPN 11 – also known as UFC Fight Night 173 – Saturday at the UFC’s APEX Facility in Las Vegas. The prelims kick off at 5 p.m. ET, followed by the main card set for 8 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+.
Muhammad (16-3) dumped Takashi Sato by submission at UFC 242 in his most recent showing Sept. 7, 2019, giving him back-to-back victories and six wins in his past seven matches. The submission was a rarity, however, as six of those previous seven fights went the distance. He is strong on the mat, ranking seventh in bottom position time at 3:12. Good (21-5) is even better, ranking second in the division with a 0:40 bottom position time, and 1.68 bottom position percentage.
Good will be looking to throw hands early and often, posting 5.32 strikes landed per minute – he is third in the division with a 1.86 striking differential. Good is tremendous at avoiding the big blows, too, posting a 67.4 significant strike-defense percentage, second in the division. He has alternated wins and losses in his five fights at the UFC level, with four of the bouts ending inside the distance, including a KO/TKO Round 3 win at UFC 244 over Chance Rencountre last time out on Nov. 2, 2019.
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GOOD (+105) is worth a small-unit play against Muhammad (-125) in what should be a fairly entertaining affair. Both of these guys can bomb, and it will be interesting to see if Good can continue his outstanding ability to avoid the big blow. His significant strike defense has been on point in the fledgling days of his UFC career. While Good has seen his fights end rather early at times, Muhammad is much more methodical, thus why YES (-154): WILL THE FIGHT GO THE DISTANCE? is a decent amount of chalk to eat. Taking GOOD BY KO/TKO, DQ or SUBMISSION (+200) could help you double up, too.
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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.
How to watch Blaydes vs. Volkov, with betting odds for the full UFC Fight Night fight card.
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Curtis “Razor” Blaydes will face Alexander “Drago” Volkov in the Main Event of UFC Fight Night 173 Saturday at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. The main card is set to begin at 8 p.m. ET with the preliminaries starting at 5 p.m. ET. The full fight card is available on ESPN and ESPN+. Below, we look at BetMGM‘s betting odds for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov.
How to watch UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov will be held at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Volkov full main card
Betting odds courtesy of BetMGM. All lines last updated Friday at 5:40 a.m. ET.
UFC Fight Night’s main card is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET.
Curtis Blaydes (-400) vs. Alexander Volkov (+305)
The Main Event of UFC Fight Night 173 is a heavyweight bout between the No. 3 contender in Blaydes (13-2) and seventh-ranked Volkov (31-7). Blaydes is the biggest favorite on the entire fight card.
Josh Emmett (+120) vs. Shane Burgos (-143)
Emmett (15-2) and Burgos (13-1) rank eighth and 10th, respectively, in the featherweight division. Burgos has a five-inch advantage in both height and reach.
Raquel Pennington (-179) vs. Marion Reneau (+150)
Pennington (10-9) sits sixth in the women’s bantamweight division and is favored over the 10th-ranked Reneau (9-5-1) despite her unimpressive record.
Belal Muhammad (-125) vs. Lyman Good (+105)
Muhammad (16-3) and Good (21-5) both enter unranked in the welterweight division. Good, the underdog, has a two-inch reach advantage.
Jim Miller (+200) vs. Roosevelt Roberts (-250)
Roberts (10-1) is the second-biggest favorite on the main card with a significant edge over the veteran Miller (31-14) in this opening Catch Weight bout.
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UFC Fight Night prelims card
The prelim card is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. ET.
Clay Guida (+200) vs. Bobby Green (-250)
Two experienced fighters meet in this lightweight clash. Green (24-10-1) is a sizable favorite over Guida (35-16).
Tecia Torres (+175) vs. Brianna Van Buren (-213)
Van Buren, a southpaw, is given the edge in a women’s strawweight clash with Torres. The unranked Van Buren (9-2) has a two-inch reach advantage while Torres (10-5) is one inch taller and ranks 11th in the division.
Marc-Andre Barriault (-110) vs. Oskar Piechota (-110)
Both middleweight fighters have 11 victories. Barriault has four losses, while Piechota has three losses and a no-decision.
Cortney Casey (-110) vs. Gillian Robertson (-110)
Casey, the 15th-ranked women’s flyweight, enters with a 9-7 record in this tightly-contested bout against the slightly-favored Robertson (7-4).
Justin Jaynes (+290) vs. Frank Camacho (-371)
The much more experienced Camacho (22-8) is a huge favorite vs. Jaynes (15-4) in a lightweight bout.
Roxanne Modafferi (-115) vs. Lauren Murphy (-106)
Madafferi (24-17) and Murphy (12-4) rank sixth and seventh, respectively, in the women’s flyweight division. Modafferi has a two-inch edge in both height and reach.
Austin Hubbard (+160) vs. Max Rohskopf (-197)
The undefeated Rohskopf (5-0) faces Hubbard (11-4) in a lightweight bout to open UFC Fight Night 173.
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Lyman Good couldn’t hide the pain of the recent loss of his dad, especially as he readies to compete on Father’s Day weekend.
LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Lyman Good[/autotag] couldn’t hide the pain of the recent death of his dad, especially as he readies to compete on Father’s Day weekend.
Good revealed that, in addition to his battle with COVID-19 in recent months, he’s also coping with the loss of his father.
“It’s definitely been a long road,” Good told reporters Thursday in a virtual media day session. “A few weeks ago, my father had passed away, so it’s been a roller coaster ride emotionally, physically – you know, on all levels. But for me, one of the things we’re trained in as martial artists is how to maintain integrity of your focus. Stay the path no matter what happens and stay the course because, at the end of it, you’re going to feel a lot better about yourself knowing that you stuck to your path, you trained hard, and then you kept at it. So I’m definitely looking forward to this fight. I’m excited to go out there and make everybody proud.”
Good (21-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC), who lives and trains in New York, was expected to face Belal Muhammad (16-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) on April 18 at UFC 249. However two weeks before the event was scheduled, he was forced to withdraw from the card after testing positive for the novel coronavirus that is currently wreaking havoc on the world.
Good recovered in relatively quick fashion, and he credits the physical conditioning he achieved during his fight preparation for assisting in his return to health.
“I did feel it in my lungs,” Good said. “I felt it in my energy, because I was very fatigued. I just felt a lot of achiness and stuff. I went through a lot of symptoms with pretty much what you’re hearing out there, but I think it was a blessing for me to at the time have been training for a fight because I think the health from that camp got me through the COVID virus a little easier than most people.”
UFC 249 eventually was rescheduled for May 9, and as Good’s health improved, his fight with Muhammad was rebooked for Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11, which airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+ from the UFC Apex.
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Good said he was happy the promotion was able to keep his original matchup together and imagines Muhammad feels the same.
“I like to finish what I started, and I’m sure on his end, he’s excited about taking the fight, as well,” Good said.
But just as Good overcame the physical hurdles that he was facing, he was handed a devastating emotional challenge, as well. His father, who Good admits was a lifelong smoker and drinker, died.
“He had a lot going on with him,” Good said. “They did rule it as natural cause, but he just wasn’t a healthy person. After the military, he lived a life with a lot of alcohol, a lot of smoking, so it was one of those things that was just inevitable.”
Good struggled to hold back tears as he discussed the loss of his father. Now he will compete on the eve of Father’s Day, and he said he will do so while dedicating the performance to his dad.
“I felt like for me to not fight would be an injustice to his honor and his name, and I felt like if anything, try to use this as an opportunity to go out there,” Good said. “It’s literally a day before Father’s Day, and I told myself let’s go out there and let’s do this for him. This is a fight that was expected to happen a while ago, so this definitely feels like something we re-routed and we went through a lot from the original time I was supposed to fight, and things happen for a reason.
“God put us in this path for a reason. I know I was meant to fight him on June 20.”
To hear more from Good, check out the video above.
