UFC Fight Night 116 Athlete Outfitting pay: Program payout total nears $14.5 million

PITTSBURGH – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 116 event took home UFC Athlete Outfitting pay, a program that launched after the UFC’s deal with Reebok, totaling $95,000.

UFC Fight Night 116 took place at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The card aired on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Leading the way were middleweights Luke Rockhold (16-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Uriah Hall (13-8 MMA, 6-6 UFC), who each received a third-tier payout total of $10,000. Rockhold defeated David Branch in the main event, while Hall beat Krzysztof Jotko on the prelims.

The full UFC Fight Night 116 UFC Athlete Outfitting payouts included:

Luke Rockhold: $10,000
def. David Branch: $5,000

Mike Perry: $5,000
def. Alex Reyes: $2,500

Anthony Smith: $5,000
def. Hector Lombard: $5,000

Gregor Gillespie: $2,500
def. Jason Gonzalez: $2,500

Kamaru Usman: $5,000
def. Sergio Moraes: $5,000

Justin Ledet: $2,500
def. Zu Anyanwu: $2,500

Olivier Aubin-Mercier: $5,000
def. Tony Martin: $5,000

Daniel Spitz: $2,500
def. Anthony Hamilton: $5,000

Uriah Hall: $10,000
def. Krzysztof Jotko: $5,000

Gilbert Burns: $5,000
def. Jason Saggo: $5,000

Under the UFC Athlete Outfitting program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Reebok’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 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-5 bouts receive $2,500 per appearance; 6-10 bouts get $5,000; 11-15 bouts earn $10,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $15,000; and 21 bouts and more get $20,000. Additionally, champions earn $40,000 while title challengers get $30,000.

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 2017 UFC-Reebok sponsorship payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 116: Rockhold vs. Branch” – $95,000
• “UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2” – $185,000
• “UFC Fight Night 115: Struve vs. Volkov” – $90,000
• “UFC Fight Night 114: Pettis vs. Moreno” – $117,500
• “UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2” – $327,500
• “UFC on FOX 25: Weidman vs. Gastelum” – $140,000
• “UFC Fight Night 113: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio” – $77,500
• “UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker” – $182,500
• “The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale: Johnson vs. Gaethje” – $122,500
• “UFC Fight Night 112: Chiesa vs. Lee” – $182,500
• “UFC Fight Night 111: Holm vs. Correia” – $152,500
• “UFC Fight Night 110: Lewis vs. Hunt” – $110,000
• “UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway” – $212,500
• “UFC Fight Night 109: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira” – $112,500
• “UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2” – $265,000
• “UFC Fight Night 108: Swanson vs. Lobov” – $200,000
• “UFC on FOX 24: Johnson vs. Reis” – $200,000
• “UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2” – $205,000
• “UFC Fight Night 107: Manuwa vs. Anderson” – $95,000
• “UFC Fight Night 106: Belfort vs. Gastelum” – $190,000
• “UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2” – $175,000
• “UFC Fight Night 105: Lewis vs. Browne” – $122,500
• “UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie” – $215,000
• “UFC Fight Night 104: Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie” – $90,000
• “UFC on FOX 23: Shevchenko vs. Pena” – $155,000
• “UFC Fight Night 103: Rodriguez vs. Penn” – $125,000

Year-to-date total: $4,145,000
2016 total: $7,138,000
2015 total: $3,185,000
Program-to-date total: $14,468,000

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 116, check out the UFC Events section of the site.