The UFC returned to action Saturday night with UFC Aukland, a FS1 fight night featuring a main event between heavyweight fighters Mark Hunt and Derrick Lewis.
In the main event Hunt took out a fatigued Lewis, earning a TKO victory in the process.
Now, we pulled the UFC Fight Night Aukland salary info from The Sports Daily dot com, who released the following figures and disclaimer.
Here’s what they said:
Before we go any further, we should note that most international athletic commissions don’t release fighter pay info, so none of the following salary data for the event is official. However, you can get a fairly accurate picture of a fighter’s pay based on official purse info released from past fights. So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 22 fighters that traded blows at the event (and we’re assuming Dong Hyun Kim got paid his show money despite his fight being cancelled last minute). But please remember – this is only an estimate, not official info.
Attendance: 8,649
Gate: $830,000
Mark Hunt: $810,000 ($750,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus, $10,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Derrick Lewis: $105,000 ($45,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus, $10,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Derek Brunson: $85,000 ($35,000 to show, $35,000 win bonus, $10,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Ben Nguyen: $84,500 ($16,000 to show, $16,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Dan Hooker: $83,000 ($14,000 to show, $14,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus, $5,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Ross Pearson: $74,000 ($54,000 to show, $20,000 Reebok sponsorship)
John Moraga: $66,000 ($28,000 to show, $28,000 win bonus, $10,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Dan Kelly: $34,000 ($29,000 to show, $5,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Zak Ottow: $30,500 ($14,000 to show, $14,000 win bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Ion Cutelaba: $26,500 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Alexander Volkanovski: $26,500 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Vinc Pichel: $26,500 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
JJ Aldrich: $24,500 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus, $2,000 from Jeon for missing weight, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Tim Elliott: $24,000 ($19,000 to show, $5,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Mizuto Hirota: $24,000 ($19,000 to show, $5,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Luke Jumeau: $22,500 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Dominique Steele: $17,000 ($12,000 to show, $5,000 Reebok sponsorship)
Henrique da Silva: $16,500 ($14,000 to show, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Damien Brown: $16,500 ($14,000 to show, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Kiichi Kunimoto: $16,500 ($14,000 to show, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Ashkan Mokhtarian: $12,500 ($10,000 to show, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
Dong Hyun Kim: $12,000
Chan-Mi Jeon: $10,500 ($10,000 to show, $2,000 fine for missing weight, $2,500 Reebok sponsorship)
