UFC Fight Night 120 Athlete Outfitting pay: Highest non-PPV payout in program history

NORFOLK, Va. – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 120 event took home UFC Athlete Outfitting pay, a program that launched after the UFC’s deal with Reebok, totaling $245,000.

UFC Fight Night 120 took place at Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Va. The card aired on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Seven fighters on the card earned a maximum non-title payout of $20,000, the most of any card thus far in the history of the program.

The full UFC Fight Night 120 UFC Athlete Outfitting payouts included:

Dustin Poirier: $20,000
def. Anthony Pettis: $15,000

Matt Brown: $20,000
def. Diego Sanchez: $20,000

Andrei Arlovski: $20,000
def. Junior Albini: $2,500

Cezar Ferreira: $10,000
def. Nate Marquardt: $20,000

Raphael Assuncao: $15,000
def. Matthew Lopez: $2,500

Clay Guida: $20,000
def. Joe Lauzon: $20,000

Marlon Moraes: $2,500
def. John Dodson: $10,000

Tatiana Suarez: $2,500
def. Viviane Pereira: $2,500

Sage Northcutt: $5,000
def. Michel Quinones: $2,500

Nina Ansaroff: $2,500
def. Angela Hill: $5,000

Sean Strickland: $5,000
def. Court McGee: $10,000

Jake Collier: $5,000
def. Marcel Fortuna: $2,500

Karl Roberson: $2,500
def. Darren Stewart: $2,500

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 120: Poirier vs. Pettis” – $245,000
• “UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre” – $315,000
• “UFC Fight Night 119: Brunson vs. Machida” – $170,000
• “UFC Fight Night 118: Cerrone vs. Till” – $100,000
• “UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee” – $242,500
• “UFC Fight Night 117: Saint Preux vs. Okami” – $107,500
• “UFC Fight Night 116: Rockhold vs. Branch” – $92,500
• “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: $5,322,500
2016 total: $7,138,000
2015 total: $3,185,000
Program-to-date total: $15,645,500

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 120, check out the UFC Events section of the site.