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UFC 306 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: O’Malley, Grasso net $42,000 for entering as champs

Sean O’Malley and Alexa Grasso got the biggest checks from the Promotional Guidelines Compliance program fro UFC 306, which paid $239,500.

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 306 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $239,500.

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 306 took place at Sphere. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPNews and ESPN+.

The full UFC 306 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Merab Dvalishvili[/autotag]: $32,000
def. [autotag]Sean O’Malley[/autotag]: $42,000

[autotag]Valentina Shevchenko[/autotag]: $32,000
def. [autotag]Alexa Grasso[/autotag]: $42,000

[autotag]Diego Lopes[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Brian Ortega[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Esteban Ribovics[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Daniel Zellhuber[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Ronaldo Rodriguez[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Ode Osbourne[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Irene Aldana[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Ignacio Bahamondes[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Manuel Torres[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Ketlen Souza[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Joshua Van[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Edgar Chairez[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Raul Rosas Jr.[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Aori Qileng[/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: $5,721,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $28,458,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 306.

Ketlen Souza def. Yazmin Jauregui at UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Ketlen Souza’s first-round technical submission win over Yazmin Jauregui at UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas.

Check out the best photos from [autotag]Ketlen Souza[/autotag]’s first-round technical submission win over [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] at UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas. (Fight and venue photos by Stephen R. Sylvanie, USA Today Sports)

UFC 306 video: Ketlen Souza chokes Yazmin Jauregui out cold in Round 1

Ketlen Souza clubbed and subbed her way to victory at UFC 306.

LAS VEGAS – [autotag]Ketlen Souza[/autotag] clubbed and subbed her way to victory at UFC 306.

Souza (15-4 MMA, 2-1 UFC) dropped [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] (11-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) with a thunderous left hook and jumped on a rear-naked choke to put the Mexican to sleep at the 3:02 mark of Round 1 Saturday at Sphere.

Check out the replay of Souza’s finish below (via X):

After dropping her UFC debut to Karine Silva, Souza has rebounded with back-to-back wins over Marnic Mann, and an upset finish of Jauregui.

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Up-to-the-minute UFC 306 results include:

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Yazmin Jauregui appreciates Merab Dvalishvili’s effort to embrace Mexican culture ahead of UFC 306

Yazmin Jauregui, who recently shared a dance with Merab Dvalishvili, is happy to see him embrace Mexican culture ahead of Noche UFC.

UFC 306, which celebrates Mexican Independence, doesn’t have a Mexican or fighter of Mexican descent competing in the main even. However, it might have an adopted Mexican depending on who you ask.

Georgia’s [autotag]Merab Dvalishvili[/autotag], who now resides in the U.S., challenges UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley in the headlining act of UFC 306, also known as Noche UFC, at the Sphere in Las Vegas. With no Mexican representative to look up to in main event, Dvalishvili has become somewhat of an honorary Mexican through his wholesome efforts in embracing the culture.

In the buildup to the event, and even way before getting booked to fight on Mexican Independence Day weekend, Dvalishvili has been merging and experiencing the Mexican culture. Recently, Dvalishvili stopped by Entram Gym in Tijuana, where strawweight prospect [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] got to witness Dvalishvili’s efforts first hand.

“That’s been really nice to see,” Jauregui told MMA Junkie in Spanish when asked about Dvalishvili embracing Mexico. “Just the fact that Merab, someone who’s among the world’s best and is fighting for the title, is embracing our culture so much and learning about our culture, which I consider a beautiful culture, immense culture and history. So the fact that anyone would go to another country and try to learn about it and form part of it, that’s always really nice to see and appreciated.

“I’ve seen him. I also think he’s making the most out of this boom that we’re experiencing. You see Dana White talk highly of us and our boxing and our aggressive style. I think (Dvalishvili) is connecting with that, being a fighter that’s tough and likes to march forward.”

Jauregui (11-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC), who also competes at UFC 306 against Brazil’s Ketlen Souza, was wrapping up her training at Entram Gym last week when she ran into Dvalishvili, who was in need of a dance teacher.

“I was training, working on my strategy, and I had heard that he was here doing some work and also training a bit with us,” Jauregui said. “When I came downstairs from my training, he had either just finished giving a class or training, I don’t know, and he called everyone and asked if we could teach him how to dance.

“I personally love to dance. I love it. Since I was a little girl in elementary and middle school, I’d go to dancing classes, and I would participate in the school events. For me, el calabaceado, el folklorico, la banda norteño, I know how to dance all that.

“So when I went downstairs, everyone was like, ‘Oh, the right person for the job just arrived.’ So I was like, ‘Of course.’ Plus I get to be in Merab’s famous videos, so we were just there dancing around and teaching him. He’s a great person, super humble, and he was having a blast with la raza and taking pictures, so that was a fun moment.”

Despite liking Dvalishvili as a person, Jauregui will remain neutral when it comes to her prediction for the UFC 306 main event. She thinks on paper it’s a fight that can go either way and is excited to see it play out.

“Oh my, that’s a tough one,” Jauregui said when asked about her prediction. “This is a very complicated fight, not only for him, but both. O’Malley’s striking is incredible, and you’ve seen him look great in his fight. But then again, Merab’s wrestling is something that he dominates well. We saw how he dominated Henry Cejudo, who’s a great wrestler.

“So I’m going to stay neutral on this one. I just want the person who’s the most deserving to win the title.”

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Yazmin Jauregui hopes to return at UFC 306 for Mexican Independence Day: ‘I want to feel the support of my people’

Strawweight prospect Yazmin Jauregui wants a fight at the UFC 306 event celebrating Mexican Independence.

[autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] didn’t get to compete on last year’s inaugural UFC event celebrating Mexican Independence Day, and she doesn’t want to miss out on that chance again.

This year, the UFC will celebrate the Mexican holiday by hosting UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas on Sept. 14. UFC CEO Dana White has hyped up the event, saying it’s going to be the greatest spectacle in combat sports and that it will never be replicated.

Jauregui (11-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC), a native of Tijuana, hopes to get an offer for the event.

“I’m eager to come back, and I’ve actually been training hard for about two months now,” Jauregui told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “I fought, and thank God I had no injuries, and I started training a week after the fight and easing my way back to things. I also went to San Diego to train, and now I’m just waiting for a contract.

“I’ve been told that we’re considered for September, and it’s a great card, but nothing is confirmed yet. I’m hoping it goes through, and I’m trying to attract it, almost like telepathy. I want to fight and against someone who’s in the top 20 rankings. I think about 20 or 21, and I want to start going up in level.”

Jauregui is coming off a dominant unanimous decision win over Sam Hughes in February. She’s hoping to get a notable opponent for her next outing, but has no one in mind, given the state of the division.

“We’ve looked at the rankings and how things have panned out lately,” Jauregui said. “I saw the fight with Tabatha Ricci, Tecia Torres and also Michelle Waterson and Loopy Godinez, who have upcoming fights. So the ranking is always changing.

“At the time, I don’t see anyone specifically because things have changed a lot in the division. Either way, I don’t think I’m in a position to start picking my fights, for now. I’m going to fight whoever they put me and prepare the best I can, and go do my job. Whatever they give me, I’ll be ready.”

Regardless, the name doesn’t seem to hold priority for her next booking. She mainly wants to get a spot on the UFC 306 card so she can represent Mexico.

“It’s a very meaningful date, and it represents so much in Mexico,” Jauregui explained. “For me, it would be incredible. The Mexican is very hardworking and even from an audience standpoint it’s going to be great. … The event is expected to be stacked, and I’m sure the Mexican public will go nuts, especially around this date. I want to feel the support of my people, so I can perform at my best.”

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UFC Fight Night 237 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Headliners get combined $17,000

UFC Fight Night 237 fighters took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay, a program that continued after the UFC’s deal with Venum.

MEXICO CITY – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 237 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $135,500.

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 Fight Night 237 took place at Mexico City Arena. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 237 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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[autotag]Brandon Royval[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Brandon Moreno[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Brian Ortega[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Yair Rodriguez[/autotag]: $11,000

[autotag]Daniel Zellhuber[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Fransisco Prado[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag]: $4,500
def. [autotag]Sam Hughes[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Manuel Torres[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Chris Duncan[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Raoni Barcelos[/autotag]: $11,000
def. [autotag]Cristian Quinonez[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Jesus Aguilar[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Mateus Mendonca[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Edgar Chairez[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Daniel Lacerda[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Fares Ziam[/autotag]: $6,000
def. [autotag]Claudio Puelles[/autotag]: $6,000

[autotag]Ronaldo Rodriguez[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Denys Bondar[/autotag]: $4,000

[autotag]Felipe dos Santos[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Victor Altamirano[/autotag]: $4,500

[autotag]Muhammad Naimov[/autotag]: $4,000
def. [autotag]Erik Silva[/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 2371 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: $1,228,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $23,935,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 237.

Coming off first career loss, UFC Fight Night 237’s Yazmin Jauregui vows to knock out Sam Hughes

Yazmin Jauregui will be looking for a knockout on home soil in her return to action after suffering her first pro loss.

MEXICO CITY – [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] is coming off the first loss of her professional career, but is eyeing a triumphant return to action.

At UFC Fight Night 237, Tijuana’s Jauregui (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) takes on fellow strawweight Sam Hughes at Mexico City Arena. It’s a matchup that gets Jauregui pumped because Hughes (8-5 MMA, 3-4 UFC) has a resume filled with well-respected names.

Regardless of her opponent’s experience, Jauregui sees herself finishing the fight by knockout.

“I’m really excited about this fight because I know Sam Hughes is a really experienced fighter that has fought girls in the elite of the division,” Jauregui told MMA Junkie and other reporters at Wednesday’s media day. “But I know I’m going to win. I know I’m going to knock her out and it’s going to be in the name of my people.”

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Jauregui will be looking to move past her previous outing, which was a disappointing outcome. At UFC 290, she suffered her first professional loss to Denise Gomes in the opening seconds of the fight. With the lessons learned from her defeat, if all goes well for Jauregui, she will return to her winning ways on her home country’s soil.

“I learned a lot because that fight I was really sure I was doing a perfect fighting style but then I learned that it’s not,” Jauregui said. “I improved so much in these past few months, and of course, how much I grew up as a fighter.”

Watch Jauregui’s full media day interview in the video above.

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Matchup Roundup: New UFC fights announced in the past week (Dec. 18-24)

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 Dec. 18-24.

Yazmin Jauregui vs. Sam Hughes set for UFC’s February return to Mexico City

A homegrown prospect will be on the bill when the UFC returns to Mexico in two months.

The lineup for the UFC’s long-awaited return to Mexico in two months continues to build with the addition of a women’s strawweight bout featuring a home-grown prospect.

[autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag] (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) will take on [autotag]Sam Hughes[/autotag] (8-5 MMA, 3-4 UFC) at the UFC’s Fight Night event in Mexico City on Feb. 24. MMA Junkie confirmed the matchup with people with knowledge of the booking following an initial report from UFC broadcast partner ESPN (via ESPN Deportes).

The UFC’s return to Mexico City will be its first visit to the country in about 4.5 years. The event takes place at Arena Ciudad de Mexico, which has hosted the promotion on five previous occasions in the past nine years. The event will stream on ESPN+.

Jauregui will fight in front of her home fans in Mexico for the first time in the UFC. The former Combate Global tournament winner won her first two UFC bouts in 2022 against Iasmin Lucindo and Istela Nunes.

But in July, Jauregui suffered her first pro loss when Denise Gomes knocked her out in just 20 seconds at UFC 290 in Las Vegas. Now she’ll be looking to rebound for the first time in her career, as well.

Hughes got back in the win column in April with a decision over Jaqueline Amorim at UFC 287. That put her back on the right track after a loss to Piera Rodriguez snapped a two-fight winning streak that came on the heels of losses in her first three fights in the UFC.

With the addition, the UFC Mexico City lineup now includes:

  • Brandon Moreno vs. Amir Albazi
  • Yair Rodriguez vs. Brian Ortega
  • Edgar Chairez vs. Daniel Lacerda
  • Victor Altamarino vs. Felipe dos Santos
  • Sam Hughes vs. Yazmin Jauregui

UFC prospect Yazmin Jauregui details mental state after first loss, still thinks her ‘moment will come’

Highly touted UFC prospect Yazmin Jauregui is keeping her head held high after suffering her first professional defeat.

UFC 290 unexpectedly turned out to be a first for [autotag]Yazmin Jauregui[/autotag].

To many observers’ surprise, the then-undefeated Jauregui tasted defeat for the very first time. Jauregui (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC), a highly touted prospect in the strawweight division, was stopped by Denis Gomes just 20 second into their bout last month in Las Vegas.

It was a tough pill to swallow for Jauregui, who hoped to enter the rankings with a win.

“The truth is that it was really sad how things went down for me,” Jauregui told MMA Junkie in Spanish. “At that moment, I was disappointed with how things went down, with how I lost. I would’ve liked to put up a fight.

“The truth is that I prepared well in camp. I can tell you that it was one of the hardest and longest camps that I did for a fight. So when the result happened, I couldn’t believe it. I was disappointed and upset. I wanted to fight. But thank God it wasn’t a bad KO, it was a TKO, and my health is good, and I’m well.

“It took me a few days to process everything. It wasn’t really the loss, but how I lost. That was the main thing. I’m not scared to lose. That’s how this sport is – cruel. It can give you beautiful things, and you can win and get recognition. However, at the same time, you can lose and experience the exact opposite. It was tough to process, but I’m now 100 percent.”

Jauregui said it took her about three to four days to process the defeat before she turned the page mentally. It was a tough thing to experience but not tough enough to deter her from her goal of becoming UFC champion.

“I didn’t want to speak with anyone or be too much on social media or anything like that, because the moment was for me,” Jauregui said. “I needed to meditate on the situation, figure out what I needed to do and hit the reset button, because there’s no way I was going to stay like that forever. I was born to do this. This is part of it. After the third day, I went, ‘It’s done. I know I lost, but what’s next?'”

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Jauregui knows the error she committed from a technical standpoint, falling for Gomes’ faint to the body and eating a monster right hook to the chin. In addition to that, Jauregui believes she didn’t enter the fight with the right mentality.

“I went over the fight that same night after the event and the day after the event, and I’ve seen it a few times after that, too,” Jauregui said when asked about her performance. “I think I know what happened. I didn’t activate my fight mode, my fight instinct mode. That mode that when you step in the octagon, and you know it’s all or nothing.

“I was a bit overconfident, because I had done my job well in preparation and I felt so good in the locker room. The cardio, the strength, the technique, everything looked good. Maybe I stepped in the octagon too relaxed, a bit overconfident like, ‘Hey, I did the work well. Now I just need to have fun.’ And yeah, you do need to have fun, but at the end of the day you’re fighting, and the person in front of you doesn’t want you doing well. They want you to lose, they want to beat you, and I think that’s what happened. I entered too relaxed.”

Jauregui recently underwent surgery to repair an umbilical hernia that stemmed from her training camp for UFC 290. She’s recovering and eyes a December or January return.

The 24-year-old believes this defeat is part of the process and journey to becoming an elite fighter, and she plans to come back even stronger.

“I don’t want to lose,” Jauregui said. “I like competing and giving it my all at all times, but many people have developed very high expectations of me and my career, saying I’m the next champion and that I need to fight for the belt now and all these type of comments.

“However, people don’t know that this is a process and I can’t rush or skip the process. My moment will come and God’s timing is perfect, so I just need to keep working hard and keep moving forward. In a way, the loss did take some weight off my shoulders so people stop saying that I need to fight for the belt now, because that’s just not how things work.”

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