UFC Fight Night 245 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Darren Elkins' $21,000 leads card
LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 245 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $155,500.
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 245 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.
The full UFC Fight Night 245 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
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Anthony Hernandez: $6,000
def. Michel Pereira: $11,000
Rob Font: $16,000
def. Kyler Phillips: $6,000
Charles Johnson: $6,000
def. Su Mudaerji: $6,000
Cameron Smotherman: $4,000
def. Jake Hadley: $6,000
Darren Elkins: $21,000
def. Daniel Pineda: $11,000
Asu Almabayev: $4,500
def. Matheus Nicolau: $11,000
Jean Matsumoto: $4,000
def. Brad Katona: $6,000
Joselyne Edwards: $6,000
def. Tamires Vidal: $4,500
Elise Reed: $6,000
def. Jessica Penne: $4,000
Melissa Martinez: $4,000
def. Alice Ardelean: $4,000
Austen Lane: $4,500
def. Robelis Despaigne: $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 2451 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:
- “UFC Fight Night 245: Hernandez vs. Pereira” – $155,500
- “UFC Fight Night 244: Royval vs. Taira” – $186,000
- “UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.” – $407,500
- “UFC Fight Night 243: Moicano vs. Saint Denis” – $173,500
- “UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC” – $239,500
- “UFC Fight Night 242: Burns vs. Brady” – $157,500
- “UFC on ESPN 62: Cannonier vs. Borralho” – $166,500
- “UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya” – $243,500
- “UFC on ESPN 61: Tybura vs. Spivac 2” – $128,000
- “UFC on ABC 7: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov” – $211,000
- “UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2” – $307,500
- “UFC on ESPN 60: Lemos vs. Jandiroba” – $139,000
- “UFC on ESPN 59: Namajunas vs. Cortez” – $180,500
- “UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2”, – $311,500
- “UFC on ABC 6: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov” – $186,000
- “UFC on ESPN 58: Perez vs. Taira” – $116,000
- “UFC on ESPN 57: Cannonier vs. Imavov” – $186,500
- “UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier” – $281,500
- “UFC Fight Night 241: Barboza vs. Murphy” – $158,500
- “UFC on ESPN 56: Lewis vs. Nascimento” – $186,000
- “UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg” – $280,000
- “UFC on ESPN 55: Nicolau vs. Perez” – $175,000
- “UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill” – $460,000
- “UFC Fight Night 240: Allen vs. Curtis 2” – $162,500
- “UFC on ESPN 54: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot” – $173,000
- “UFC on ESPN 53: Ribas vs. Namajunas” – $148,000
- “UFC Fight Night 239: Tuivasa vs. Tybura” – $189,500
- “UFC 299: O’Malley vs. Vera 2” – $359,000
- “UFC Fight Night 238: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev” – $133,500
- “UFC Fight Night 237: Moreno vs. Royval 2” – $135,500
- “UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria” – $243,000
- “UFC Fight Night 236: Hermansson vs. Pyfer” – $236,500
- “UFC Fight Night 235: Dolidze vs. Imavov” – $170,500
- “UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis” – $285,500
- “UFC Fight Night 234: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2” – $159,500
Year-to-date total: $6,644,000
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $29,381,000
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 245.