{"id":557644,"date":"2026-03-22T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:07:08","slug":"thrill-and-agony-ufc-london-fighters-react-to-getting-100k-bonuses-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557644\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrill and agony! UFC London fighters react to getting 100k bonuses \u2026 or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Being a UFC fighter is a tough gig, especially when you\u2019re starting out and building up pay from a $10k\/$10k contract. Those numbers haven\u2019t improved for years, but at least the bonuses have increased from $50k to $100k, with every finish earning $25k.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Those bigger bonuses have resulted in some truly heartwarming videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-bonuses-and-awards\/430703\/official-ufc-london-post-fight-bonus-winners-results-paramount-mma-murphy-evloev-baraniewski-jones-sola-dyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from UFC London,<\/a> where Mason Jones vs. Axel Sola earned Fight of the Night honors. Jones is now 3-0 in the UFC and has earned one performance bonus before, but this is his first $100,000 bonus and he\u2019s a very happy man based on the big smile on his bruised up face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c5am here in London,\u201d Jones posted later. \u201cI\u2019m still led here wide awake absolutely buzzing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shanelle Dyer is one of those rare fighters that earned a Contender Series contract despite losing her fight, and she made her UFC debut in London last night. The fight went well for her: she finished her opponent Ravena Oliveira with knees and punches just 1:17 into the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Her reaction to getting the $100,000 bonus? Jumping on the bed back at the fighter hotel and screaming in excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBruv, I just got $123k!\u201d she exclaimed, holding her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Iwo Baraniewski is a man of few words, even after his second performance bonus in a row. He simply posted \u201c2\/2 taken\u201d on X (formerly Twitter) with a cash face emoji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Passed over for a performance bonus? Featherweight Danny Silva, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-paramount-plus-news-hub-fight-cards-schedule\/430715\/watch-ufc-london-video-highlights-paramount-results-mma-silva-knockout-campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who TKO\u2019d Kurtis Campbell<\/a> in the first fight on the main card. It was a highlight reel knockout and deserving of a performance bonus, but Silva made the mistake of saying the words UFC brass hate hearing in a post-fight victory speech: \u2018I\u2019m broke.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m broke right now,\u201d Silva said. \u201cI just need some money to maintain some camps. You know, it\u2019ll be nice if I could get a performance bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Silva will have to make do with the $25,000 that fighters get for a finish in their fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Being a UFC fighter is a tough gig, especially when you\u2019re starting out and building up pay from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-557644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}