There are places where fighter salaries are a mystery, then there are shows that happen with athletic commissions that disclose pay. That is exactly what we got for UFC 160, and as always it is interesting to note who got paid what as well as the discrepancies between top earners and undercard fighters. This is thanks to MMAWeekly. Notice the steep drop off from the semi-main event to the next fight? Damn.
Cain Velasquez: $400,000 (no win bonus)
def. Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva: $75,000Junior dos Santos: $240,000 (includes $120,000 win bonus)
def. Mark Hunt: $160,000Glover Teixeira: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)
def. James Te Huna: $30,000TJ Grant: $50,000 (includes $25,000 win bonus)
def. Gray Maynard: $45,000Donald Cerrone: $82,000 (includes $41,000 win bonus)
def. KJ Noons: $41,000Mike Pyle: $84,000 (includes $42,000 win bonus)
def. Rick Story: $27,000Dennis Bermudez: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Max Holloway: $14,000Robert Whittaker: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus)
def. Colton Smith: $15,000Khabib Nurmagomedov: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Abel Trujillo: $8,000Stephen Thompson: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Nah-Shon Burrell: $9,000George Roop: $26,000 (includes $13,000 win bonus)
def. Brian Bowles: $19,000Jeremy Stephens: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)
def. Estevan Payan: $10,000