UFC 214 salaries: Now-former UFC champ Daniel Cormier earns $1 million; Jon Jones takes $500K

Recently deposed UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier earned the biggest payout of Saturday’s UFC 214 despite losing his title to Jon Jones .

Cormier (19-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) took home a disclosed $1 million payout for his rematch, which ended in the third when Jones (23-1 MMA, 17-1 UFC) caught him with a head kick and knocked him out in the pay-per-view headliner at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Jones, who reclaimed the undisputed belt he was stripped of in 2015, took home a disclosed payday of $500,000.

Welterweight champ Tyron Woodley (18-3-1 MMA, 8-2-1 UFC) also took home $500,000 for five rounds of work and a decision over Demian Maia (25-7 MMA, 19-7 UFC) in the co-headliner.

The event’s total payroll was $3,646,000.

The full list of paydays from UFC 214 included:

Jon Jones: $500,000 (no win bonus)
def. Daniel Cormier: $1,000,000

Tyron Woodley: $500,000 (no win bonus)
def. Demian Maia: $110,000

Cristiane Justino: $200,000 (no win bonus)
def. Tonya Evinger: $100,000

Robbie Lawler: $300,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus)
def. Donald Cerrone: $155,000

Volkan Oezdemir: $110,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def. Jimi Manuwa: $120,000

Ricardo Lamas: $106,000 (includes $53,000 win bonus)
def. Jason Knight $31,000

Aljamain Sterling: $66,000 (includes $33,000 win bonus)
def. Renan Barao: $53,000

Brian Ortega: $52,000 (includes $26,000 win bonus)
def. Ricardo Moicano: $23,000

Calvin Kattar: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Andre Fili: $24,000

Alexandra Albu: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Kailin Curran: $20,000

Jarred Brooks: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Eric Shelton: $10,000

Drew Dober: $44,000 (includes $22,000 win bonus)
def. Josh Burkman $54,000

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 often 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 214 fight-night bonuses to Jones and Oezdemir (“Performance of the Night”) and Ortega and Moicano (“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.

For complete coverage of UFC 214, check out the UFC Events section of the site.