UFC Fight Night 121 Athlete Outfitting pay: Yearly payout approaches $5.5 million

SYDNEY – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 121 event took home UFC Athlete Outfitting pay, a program that launched after the UFC’s deal with Reebok, totaling $122,500.

UFC Fight Night 121 took place at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. The card aired on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Three fighters led with the way with $15,000 payouts, including former UFC champ Fabricio Werdum (23-7-1 MMA, 11-4 UFC), who earned a unanimous-decision victory in the main event.

The full UFC Fight Night 121 UFC Athlete Outfitting payouts included:

Fabricio Werdum: $15,000
def. Marcin Tybura: $2,500

Jessica-Rose Clark: $2,500
def. Bec Rawlings: $5,000

Belal Muhammad: $5,000
def. Tim Means: $15,000

Jake Matthews: $5,000
def. Bojan Velickovic: $5,000

Elias Theodorou: $5,000
def. Daniel Kelly: $5,000

Alex Volkanovski: $2,500
def. Shane Young: $2,500

Ryan Benoit: $5,000
def. Ashkan Mokhtarian: $2,500

Nik Lentz: $15,000
def. Will Brooks: $2,500

Tai Tuivasa: $2,500
def. Rashad Coulter: $2,500

Frank Camacho: $2,500
def. Damien Brown: $2,500

Nadia Kassem: $2,500
def. Alex Chambers: $2,500

Eric Shelton: $2,500
def. Jenel Lausa: $2,500

Adam Wieczorek: $2,500
def. Anthony Hamilton: $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 121: Werdum vs. Tybura” – $122,500
• “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: $5,445,000
2016 total: $7,138,000
2015 total: $3,185,000
Program-to-date total: $15,768,000

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 121, check out the UFC Events section of the site.