Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 261 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $184,500.
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 261 took place at Farmasi Arena in Rio de Janeiro. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.
The full UFC Fight Night 261 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
Charles Oliveira: $21,000 def. Mateusz Gamrot: $11,000
Deiveson Figueiredo: $16,000 def. Montel Jackson: $11,000
Joel Alvarez: $6,000 def. Vicente Luque: $21,000
Mario Pinto: $4,000 def. Jhonata Diniz: $4,500
Kaan Ofli: $4,000 def. Ricardo Ramos: $11,000
Michael Aswell Jr.: $4,000 def. Lucas Almeida: $6,000
Jafel Filho: $4,500 def. Clayton Carpenter: $4,500
Vitor Petrino: $6,000 def. Thomas Petersen: $4,500
Bia Mesquita: $4,000 def. Irina Alekseeva: $4,500
Lucas Rocha: $4,000 def. Stewart Nicoll: $4,000
Julia Polastri: $4,500 def. Karolina Kowalkiewicz: $16,000
Luan Lacerda: $4,000 def. Saimon Oliveira: $4,500
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 2611 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:
- “UFC Fight Night 261: Oliveira vs. Gamrot” – $184,500
- “UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2” – $318,500
- “UFC Fight Night 260: Ulberg vs. Reyes” – $167,500
- “UFC Fight Night 259: Lopes vs. Silva” – $212,000
- “UFC Fight Night 258: Imavov vs. Borralho” – $185,500
- “UFC Fight Night 257: Walker vs. Mingyang” – $161,500
- “UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev” – $301,500
- “UFC on ESPN 72: Dolidze vs. Hernandez” – $205,000
- “UFC on ESPN 71: Taira vs. Park” – $150,000
- “UFC on ABC 9: Whittaker vs. de Ridder” – $191,000
- “UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3” – $269,500
- “UFC on ESPN 70: Lewis vs. Teixeira” – $204,500
- “UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira” – $298,500
- “UFC on ABC 8: Hill vs. Rountree Jr.” – $155,000
- “UFC on ESPN 69: Usman vs. Buckley” – $260,500
- “UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O’Malley 2” – $320,500
- “UFC on ESPN 68: Blanchfield vs. Barber” – $121,500
- “UFC on ESPN 67: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo” – $203,000
- “UFC on ESPN 66: Machado Garry vs. Prates” – $201,500
- “UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes” – $300,500
- “UFC on ESPN 65: Emmett vs. Murphy” – $161,000
- “UFC on ESPN 64: Moreno vs. Erceg” – $168,500
- “UFC Fight Night 255: Edwards vs. Brady” – $204,000
- “UFC Fight Night 254: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2” – $173,000
- “UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev” – $213,500
- “UFC Fight Night 253: Kape vs. Almabayev” – $134,500
- “UFC Fight Night 252: Cejudo vs. Song” – $185,000
- “UFC Fight Night 251: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues” – $168,000
- “UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2” – $254,500
- “UFC Fight Night 250: Adesanya vs. Imavov” – $137,500
- “UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano” – $306,000
- “UFC Fight Night 249: Dern vs. Ribas 2” – $173,500
Year-to-date total: $6,691,000
2024 total: $8,280,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $37,678,500
