UFC Fight Night 204 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Dan Hooker leads charge with $16,000

LONDON – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 204 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $154,500.

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 204 took place at The 02. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 204 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Tom Aspinall: $4,500
def. Alexander Volkov: $11,000

Arnold Allen: $6,000
def. Dan Hooker: $16,000

Paddy Pimblett: $4,000
def. Kazula Vargas: $4,500

Gunnar Nelson: $11,000
def. Takashi Sato: $4,500

Molly McCann: $6,000
def. Luana Carolina: $4,500

Ilia Topuria: $4,500
def. Jai Herbert: $4,500

Makwan Amirkhani: $11,000
def. Mike Grundy: $4,500

Sergei Pavlovich: $4,500
def. Shamil Abdurakhimov: $6,000

Paul Craig: $11,000
def. Nikita Krylov: $11,000

Jack Shore: $4,500
def. Timur Valiev: $4,500

Elise Reed: $4,000
def. Cory McKenna: $4,000

Muhammad Mokaev: $4,000
def. Cody Durden: $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 2047 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2041 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 2022 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 204: Volkov vs. Aspinall” – $154,500
• “UFC Fight Night 203: Santos vs. Ankalaev” – $198,000
• “UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal” – $236,000
• “UFC Fight Night 202: Makhachev vs. Green” – $138,000
• “UFC Fight Night 201: Walker vs. Hill” – $140,000
• “UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2” – $282,500
• “UFC Fight Night 200: Hermansson vs. Strickland” – $160,500
• “UFC 270: Ngannou vs. Gane” – $241,000
• “UFC on ESPN 32: Kattar vs. Chikadze” – $132,000

Year-to-date total: $1,682,000
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $7,850,000