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UFC 310 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: 2024 total passes $8 million

The UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program has now paid out more than $8 million to athletes in 2024 under the Venum deal.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 310 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $368,500.

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 310 took place at T-Mobile Arena. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+.

The full UFC 310 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Alexandre Pantoja[/autotag]: $42,000
def. [autotag]Kai Asakura[/autotag]: $32,000

[autotag]Shavkat Rakhmonov[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Ian Machado Garry[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Ciryl Gane[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Alexander Volkov[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Bryce Mitchell[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Kron Gracie[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Dooho Choi[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Nate Landwehr[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Dominick Reyes[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Anthony Smith[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Vicente Luque[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Themba Gorimbo[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Movsar Evloev[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Aljamain Sterling[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Bryan Battle[/autotag]: $6,000
[autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Eryk Anders[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Chris Weidman[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Joshua Van[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Cody Durden[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Michael Chiesa[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Max Griffin[/autotag]: $16,000

[autotag]Chase Hooper[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Clay Guida[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Kennedy Nzechukwu[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Lukasz Brzeski[/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: $8,072,000
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $30,809,000

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 310.

Randy Brown upset at Bryan Battle’s four-pound weight miss for UFC 310: ‘How is that fair to me?’

Randy Brown is not happy about Bryan Battle’s big weight miss for Saturday’s UFC 310.

[autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag] thinks he’ll be at a disadvantage stepping into UFC 310.

This Saturday, Brown (19-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) takes on [autotag]Bryan Battle[/autotag] (12-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in what was supposed to be a welterweight bout in the preliminary card of the final UFC pay-per-view of 2024 (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, Hulu, ESPN+). Although the fight still stands, the fight is now at a catchweight, as Battle missed weight by four pounds, coming in at 175 pounds Friday morning.

Brown is not happy about his opponent’s weight miss, and he made sure to let the world know.

“19 walks to the UFC octagon alone. 6 on the regional scene and I’ve never missed weight not 1 time,” Brown wrote on Instagram. “Like a true professional.

“Brian knew he wasn’t gonna make the weight from the day before but still let me suffer through a weight cut. These guys bite the bullet on percentage then come in overweight on purpose so they can get a weight advantage on fight night. I’ll be no more than 185 tmrw. I would bet he’ll be well over 200 tmrw. How is that fair to me?”

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Randy Brown not sure what all the Carlos Prates hype is about after failed booking

Randy Brown said a fight offer for Carlos Prates got him thinking about the prospect’s hype.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag], for a proverbial minute, thought he had a dance date with [autotag]Carlos Prates[/autotag]. It was, he surmised, a chance to see what all the hype was about.

The way Brown told it Wednesday at a media day for UFC 310, he was asked if he wanted to fight Prates, and he said yes – when he thought the fight was Saturday. When he was told it would be three weeks ago in New York, he passed on the date, but wanted the matchup.

Then Prates, Brown said, passed on a meeting for Saturday, and that was that.

For now, he hopes. Prates said he fancies Brown an easy matchup, and Brown very much would be interested in a dispute of that claim against the Brazilian with four straight bonus-winning knockouts to open his UFC tenure, including one against welterweight gatekeeper Neil Magny a month ago.

“He’s just talking sh*t – he knows that’s not true (that I’m easy),” Brown told MMA Junkie. “… Me and Magny are not the same. I tried to fight Magny for years, and now he’s on a decline. Me and Magny are not the same. Prates (has) got his hype. He’s coming along right now. He’s a good fighter. Shout out to him.

“But I’ve been in this game for how long? There’s a reason I’m still here. There’s a reason I’ve never lost two fights in a row – always showing up, always putting on performances. These guys come and they go, man. Let’s see where he’s at next year. Let’s see what happens two, three years from now.”

With Prates (21-6 MMA, 4-0 UFC) on the backburner for the time being, Brown (19-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) on Saturday will turn his attention to Bryan Battle (12-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) on the UFC 310 (pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+) prelims at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Brown is pushing up on two years since his most recent loss, a first-round submission to Jack Della Maddalena. But since then, he’s got three straight wins over Wellington Turman, a bonus-winning KO of Muslim Salikhov and, in June, a decision over Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos to give him seven wins in his past eight fights.

The winning streaks are nothing new to Brown. But what he’s trying to avoid are the setbacks that put him back to the middle of the pack.

“I get the momentum, and then I fight a guy and get set back,” Brown said. “I go on another four-, five-fight win streak or whatever and then, every time the breakthrough moment happens, it’s like I get set back. The casual (fans) don’t really get to see me. They only see me in those moments where I maybe came up short. But if you’ve tapped into the sport correctly, you know what time it is when Randy Brown’s on the cards.”

Battle is more than a 2-1 favorite against Brown. That’s not something Brown is accustomed to in recent years, when he’s only been an underdog to Maddalena and Vicente Luque.

Brown said he knows why Battle is getting love from the pundits, but also said he has a plan to disrupt things.

“I think he’s a tremendous athlete. I think he’s a tremendous martial artist,” Brown said. “I think he puts it together well – I’m most impressed with his durability, his ability to take damage and continue to move forward. He’s a grinder.

“With that being said, I’ve seen him before. I think this is one of those fights where he’s going to run into someone that’s more experienced and has seen it all before, and that’s going to really be a shocker for him when he experiences there’s levels to this ultimately. With all due respect – respectfully – there’s levels to this. I think that he’ll feel that comes out (Saturday).”

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UFC 310 preview: What’s at stake in key matchups at 2024’s final pay-per-view?

UFC will close out its 2024 PPV schedule in style with a UFC 310, and there’s a number of compelling storylines across the lineup.

[anyclip-media thumbnail=”undefined” playlistId=”undefined” content=”dW5kZWZpbmVk”][/anyclip-media]The UFC’s 2024 pay-per-view schedule comes to a conclusion on Saturday with UFC 310, which goes down at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+).

Although it doesn’t feature the biggest stars on the roster, there are a number of compelling bouts on tap – from the flyweight title headliner of [autotag]Alexandre Pantoja[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Kai Asakura[/autotag] to the welterweight title eliminator co-main event of [autotag]Shavkat Rakhmonov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ian Machado Garry[/autotag] to the key heavyweight matchup of [autotag]Ciryl Gane[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Alexander Volkov[/autotag]. And there are other notable pairings, including [autotag]Movsar Evloev[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Aljamain Sterling[/autotag], [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Bryan Battle[/autotag] and more.

There’s much on the line across the 14-bout card, and the “Spinning Back Clique” panel of Brian “Goze” Garcia, Matthew Wells and Mike Bohn joined host “Gorgeous” George Garcia on this week’s episode of the roundtable show to break down the most important storylines.

Check out the video above for the complete UFC 310 preview, or watch below for the entire episode of “Spinning Back Clique.”

https://www.youtube.com/live/QS2G4RQdRo0

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Surging welterweights Bryan Battle, Randy Brown booked for UFC 310 matchup

Bryan Battle and Randy Brown will throw down this December at the UFC’s final pay-per-view event of the year.

Surging welterweights [autotag]Bryan Battle[/autotag] and [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag] will throw down at UFC 310.

Battle meets Brown on Dec. 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+). Both fighters confirmed the news on social media after an initial report from Battle’s management, Iridium Sports Agency.

Winner of 10 of his past 12, Battle (11-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) is coming off a second-round Performance of the Night knockout of Kevin Jousset last month at UFC Fight Night 243. The Season 29 “Ultimate Fighter” winner has finished his past four wins.

Brown (19-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is 7-1 in his past eight fights. After a Performance of the Night knockout of Muslim Salikhov in February, Brown defeated Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos by unanimous decision at UFC 302 in June.

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The current UFC 310 lineup now includes:

  • Belal Muhammad vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov – for welterweight title
  • Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Asakura – for flyweight title
  • Ciryl Gane vs. Alexander Volkov
  • Nick Diaz vs. Vicente Luque
  • Movsar Evloev vs. Aljamain Sterling
  • Dominick Reyes vs. Anthony Smith
  • Virna Jandiroba vs. Tatiana Suarez
  • Clay Guida vs. Chase Hooper
  • Michael Chiesa vs. Max Griffin
  • Cody Durden vs. Joshua Van
  • Bryan Battle vs. Randy Brown

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 310.

Randy Brown vs. Carlos Prates booked for UFC 309 in New York

It’ll be a battle of two welterweights with 78-inch reaches in the Big Apple at UFC 309.

Two lengthy welterweight strikers with 78-inch reaches have agreed to fight each other at UFC 309 this fall as [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag] and [autotag]Carlos Prates[/autotag] will face off in a three-round bout Nov. 16 at Madison Square Garden.

A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed the booking to MMA Junkie but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. Ag. Fight first reported the news, and Brown confirmed it on his Instagram account.

A New York native, Brown (19-5 MMA, 13-5 UFC) fights at home once again. Since a 3-3 start to his UFC career, Brown has gone 7-1 in his most recent eight. Brown most recently competed in June when he extended his winning streak to three when he defeated Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos by unanimous decision at UFC 302 in June.

Prates (20-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) has exploded onto the international scene in 2024. He’s won all three of his fights by performance bonus-earning knockouts, including a violent dismantling of Li Jingliang at UFC 305 in August.

With the addition, the UFC 309 lineup includes:

  • Champion Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic – for heavyweight title
  • Michael Chandler vs. Charles Oliveira
  • Paul Craig vs. Bo Nickal
  • Randy Brown vs. Carlos Prates
  • Eryk Anders vs. Chris Weidman
  • Viviane Araujo vs. Karine Silva
  • Nikita Krylov vs. Azamat Murzakanov
  • Veronica Hardy vs. Eduarda Moura
  • Jonathan Martinez vs. Marcus McGhee
  • Ramiz Brahimaj vs. Mickey Gall
  • Bassil Haffez vs. Oban Elliot

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 309.

Randy Brown calls out Geoff Neal after fun win over Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos at UFC 302

Randy Brown will keep grinding if he has to, but really wants an opponent in the top 15 next to start building a legacy.

NEWARK, N.J. – [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag] beat Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos with a unanimous decision Saturday to open up the main card at UFC 302 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

Take a look inside the fight with Brown, who called for a fight with Geoff Neal after his win.

UFC 302 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Islam Makhachev’s $42,000 tops card

Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 302 took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $218,500.

NEWARK, N.J. – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 302 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $281,500.

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

The full UFC 302 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Islam Makhachev[/autotag]: $42,000
def. [autotag]Dustin Poirier[/autotag]: $32,000

[autotag]Sean Strickland[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Paulo Costa[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Kevin Holland[/autotag]: $21,000
def. [autotag]Michal Oleksiejczuk[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Niko Price[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Alex Morono[/autotag]: $21,000

[autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Roman Kopylov[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Cesar Almeida[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Grant Dawson[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Joe Solecki[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jailton Almeida[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Alexandr Romanov[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Jake Matthews[/autotag]: $16,000
def. [autotag]Phil Rowe[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Bassil Hafez[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Mickey Gall[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Ailin Perez[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Joselyne Edwards[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Andre Lima[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Mitch Raposo[/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 2024 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

Year-to-date total: $3,264,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $26,001,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 302.

UFC 302 video: Hear from each winner, guest fighters backstage

Check out what the UFC 302 winners and guest fighters had to say backstage at Saturday’s event.

NEWARK, N.J. – UFC 302 took place Saturday with 12 bouts on the lineup. We’ve got you covered with backstage winner interviews from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

You can hear from all the UFC 302 winners by checking out their post-fight news conferences below.

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Randy Brown def. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos at UFC 302: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Randy Brown’s unanimous decision win over Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos at UFC 302.

Check out the best photos from [autotag]Randy Brown[/autotag]’s unanimous decision win over [autotag]Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos[/autotag] at UFC 302 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. (Fight and venue photos by Joe Camporeale, USA Today Sports)