UFC Fighter Salary: With the highest level of hard-work and expertise needed to make it big, take a look at the highest earning UFC Fighters of 2021
Over the past few years, it has come to everyone’s attention that UFC has been evry unreasonable while paying its fighters. Obviously, the likes of Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Israel Adesanya make million for each of their performance, but according to multiple reports published on the internet, there are 36% fighters in UFC who make just $45,000.
UFC Fighter Salary: Highest earning UFC fighters in 2021
UFC decides upon a pay-check of a particular factor keeping in mind numerous factors in mind from personality to MMA records, a lot of criterias are involved. However, the likes of Khabib, Adesanya, Usman, Masvidal have earned more than a million for each performance as per evidently have a larger fan base. MMA Manifesto an average UFC Fighter received $145,967.
Compared to these numbers, many would be shocked to see how much the lowest-paid UFC fighter of 2020, Cole Williams, who fought Jason Witt at ‘UFC Fight Night: Hall vs Silva’. Williams was only able to bank $9,500 in 2020.
UFC Fight Night Prize Money
If the fighter gets a ‘fight of the night’ or ‘performance of the night’ bonus, then he/she earn an additional $50,000, which is huge considering their low paycheck.
UFC Top Paid Female Player
Talking about the female fighters, there has been a massive rise in women featuring for main-card bouts. According to Sports Daily- Amanda Nunez, Valentina Shevchenko, Joanna Jedrzejczyk and the current strawweight champion Zhang Weili are among the highest female earners in the UFC.
If a fighter has been signed by the UFC from any other MMA promotion banner, his/her team is bound to get a larger paycheck. For example, Former Bellator MMA Champion Michael Chandler who took home $530,000 after he won in his debut fight against Dan Hooker at UFC 257.
COVID Impact On UFC
Coronavirus has wrecked havoc on the UFC arena much like the remainder of the sporting arena. However, the organisation’s ability to successfully conducted fights on the UFC Island has mitigated the harm rendered to the league by the pandemic.
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