UFC 182 wasn’t the most action-packed card from top to bottom, but the biggest fight of the night did deliver. It was also, unsurprisingly, where the lion’s share of the disclosed salaries went. Out of the 1.3 million total divvied out to all the fighterss, main eventers Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier accounts for 590k of it. Two other fighters, Donald Cerrone and Hector Lombard, made more than Cormier’s 90k. Here’s a look at everyone’s disclosed salary, courtesy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission:
Jon Jones: $500,000 (no win bonus)
Daniel Cormier: $90,000
Donald Cerrone: $140,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus)
Myles Jury: $16,000
Brad Tavares: $50,000 (includes $25,000 win bonus)
Nate Marquardt: $49,000
Kyoji Horiguchi: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
Louis Gaudinot: $10,000
Hector Lombard: $106,000 (includes $53,000 win bonus)
Josh Burkman: $45,000
Paul Felder: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
Danny Castillo: $36,000
Cody Garbrandt: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
Marcus Brimage: $12,000
Shawn Jordan: $44,000 (includes $22,000 win bonus)
Jared Cannonier: $8,000
Evan Dunham: $54,000 (includes $27,000 win bonus)
Rodrigo Damm: $12,000
Omari Akhmedov: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
Mats Nilsson: $8,000
Marion Reneau: $17,600 (includes $8,000 win bonus)*
Alexis Dufresne: $6,400*
*Dufresne gave up 20% of her purse to Reneau
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