LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 71 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $150,000.
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 71 took place at the UFC Apex. The card aired on ESPN and streamed on ESPN+.
The full UFC on ESPN 71 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
Tatsuro Taira: $6,000 def. HyunSung Park: $4,500
Chris Duncan: $6,000 def. Mateusz Rebecki: $6,000
Esteban Ribovics: $6,000 def. Elves Brener: $6,000
Karol Rosa: $11,000 def. Nora Cornolle: $4,500
Neil Magny: $21,000 def. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos: $16,000
Kevin Vallejos: $4,000 def. Danny Silva: $4,000
Rinya Nakamura: $4,500 def. Nathan Fletcher: $4,000
Rodolfo Vieira: $6,000 def. Tresean Gore: $6,000
Andrey Pulyaev: $4,000 def. Nick Klein: $4,000
Austin Bashi: $4,000 def. John Yannis: $4,000
Rafael Estevam: $4,000 def. Felipe Bunes: $4,000
Piera Rodriguez: $6,000 def. Ketlen Souza: $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 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,710; 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 $32,000 while title challengers get $42,000.
In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-71 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.
Full 2025 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:
- “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: $4,307,000
2024 total: $8,280,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $35,324,000
