Final UFC 207 salaries: Champ Amanda Nunes gets $200K, Ronda Rousey $3 million

(This story was originally published on Dec. 31.)

LAS VEGAS – Despite a quick 48-second loss, Ronda Rousey was the top earner at UFC 207.

Rousey (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC), who was no match for women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes (14-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC), earned a flat disclosed payday of $3 million. Nunes, meanwhile, earned $200,000 – $100,000 to show and another $100,000 as a win bonus.

MMAjunkie obtained the list of disclosed payouts from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which oversaw Friday’s pay-per-view event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Rousey earned 64 percent of the event’s total disclosed payout of $4,683,000.

Other top earners included new bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt (11-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) and fellow co-headliner Dominick Cruz (22-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC). Both fighters earned flat payouts, with Garbrandt, who picked up a unanimous-decision victory, earning $200,000 and Cruz $350,000.

The full list of UFC 207 disclosed payouts included:

Champ Amanda Nunes: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus)
def. Ronda Rousey: $3 million

Champ Cody Garbrandt: $200,000
def. Dominick Cruz: $350,000

T.J. Dillashaw: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus)
def. John Lineker: $43,000

Dong Hyun Kim: $134,000 (includes $67,000 win bonus)
def. Tarec Saffiedine: $40,000

Ray Borg: $30,600+ (includes $18,000 win bonus)
def. Louis Smolka: $37,400+

Neil Magny: $114,000* (includes $47,000 win bonus)
def. Johny Hendricks: $80,000*

Antonio Carlos Junior: $42,000 (includes $21,000 win bonus)
def. Marvin Vettori: $12,000

Alex Garcia: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Pyle: $55,000

Niko Price: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Brandon Thatch: $22,000

Tim Means: $35,000 (no win bonus since fight ended in a no-contest)
vs. Alex Oliveira: $28,000 (no win bonus since fight ended in a no-contest)

* – 20 percent ($20,000) of Hendricks’ purse was awarded to Magny as a fine for missing weight
+ – 30 percent ($5,400) of Borg’s purse was awarded to Smolka as a fine for missing weight

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, including the official UFC Athlete Outfitting sponsorship program pay. They also do not include any other “locker room” or special discretionary bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays. They also do not include pay-per-view cuts that some top-level fighters receive.

For example, as previously reported, UFC officials handed out additional $50,000 UFC 207 fight-night bonuses to Nunes and Garcia (“Performance of the Night”) and Garbrandt and Cruz (“Fight of the Night”).

In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.

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