Main event participants [autotag]Justin Gaethje[/autotag] and [autotag]Tony Ferguson[/autotag] walked home with a solid chunk of change following their “Fight of the Night” earning bout at UFC 249.
Monday, MMA Junkie obtained a list of disclosed UFC 249 salaries from the Florida State Boxing Commission, who oversaw Saturday night’s event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
With the interim UFC lightweight title on the line, Gaethje (22-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) finished Ferguson (25-4 MMA, 15-2 UFC) with punches in Round 5. With the win, Gaethje earned a disclosed pay of $350,000, while Ferguson made $500,000.
In the co-main event, the UFC bantamweight championship was on the line. Titleholder [autotag]Henry Cejudo[/autotag] defeated former UFC bantamweight champion [autotag]Dominick Cruz[/autotag] with strikes in Round 2. Cejudo (16-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) earned $350,000, while Cruz (22-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) walked away with $300,000.
Check out a full list of the UFC 249 medical suspensions below.
- [autotag]Sam Alvey[/autotag]: $65,000
- [autotag]Ryan Spann[/autotag]: $50,000
- [autotag]Charles Rosa[/autotag]: $24,000
- [autotag]Bryce Mitchell[/autotag]: $54,000
- [autotag]Niko Price[/autotag]: $57,000
- [autotag]Vicente Luque[/autotag]: $180,000
- [autotag]Michelle Waterson[/autotag]: $60,000
- [autotag]Carla Esparza[/autotag]: $102,000
- [autotag]Fabricio Werdum[/autotag]: $100,000
- [autotag]Aleksei Oleinik[/autotag]: $160,000
- [autotag]Donald Cerrone[/autotag]: $200,000
- [autotag]Anthony Pettis[/autotag]: $310,000
- [autotag]Yorgan De Castro[/autotag]: $12,000
- [autotag]Greg Hardy[/autotag]: $180,000
- Jeremy Stephens: $46,900*
- Calvin Kattar: $116,100**
- [autotag]Jairzinho Rozenstruik[/autotag]: $80,000
- [autotag]Francis Ngannou[/autotag]: $260,000
- Dominick Cruz: $300,000
- Henry Cejudo: $350,000
- Tony Ferguson: $500,000
- Justin Gaethje: $350,000
*Stephens was fined 30 percent of his purse for missing weight, which went to Kattar.
**Kattar took 30 percent of Stephens’ fight purse.
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 249 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 handed out additional $50,000 UFC 249 fight-night bonuses to Gaethje and Ngannou for “Performance of the Night,” and Gaethje and Ferguson for “Fight of the Night.”
In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
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