{"id":737951,"date":"2026-06-15T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737951\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:22:12","slug":"ufc-white-house-bonuses-justin-gaethje-wins-extra-825k-for-epic-main-event-win-over-ilia-topuria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737951\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House bonuses: Justin Gaethje wins extra $825K for epic main event win over Ilia Topuria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Justin Gaethje has won numerous bonuses in his storied career, but none more memorable than what he just earned at UFC White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sunday\u2019s main event saw Gaethje deliver the performance of his life, battering the undefeated Ilia Topuria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/494531\/justin-gaethje-stops-ilia-topuria-to-pull-off-stunning-upset-to-win-undisputed-title-in-ufc-white-house-main-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">en route to a fourth-round knockout win<\/a> to unify his interim title with Topuria\u2019s and complete his long-awaited climb to undisputed UFC lightweight champion. For his effort, Gaethje was awarded not only the Fight of the Night award, but a Performance of the Night bonus as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the historic UFC White House event, the promotion increased the Fight of the Night bonus from its usual $100,000 to $400,000, and the Performance of the Night bonus from $100,000 to $425,000. That means an extra $825,000 for Gaethje.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As one half of the Fight of the Night, Topuria also receives a cool $400,000 consolation prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The other Performance of the night went to Ciryl Gane for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/494470\/ufc-white-house-video-ciryl-gane-demolishes-alex-pereira-with-standing-knockout-to-claim-interim-heavyweight-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his second-round knockout of former two-division champion<\/a> Alex Pereira. \u201cPoatan\u201d was attempting to become the first UFC fighter ever to win titles in three divisions, but Gane instead defeated him to become interim heavyweight champion a second time and claim a $425,000 bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">All seven of Sunday\u2019s fights ended via knockout, meaning the following five winners also received a mandatory $25,000 finish bonus:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gaethje has now won Fight of the Night 11 times and Performance of the Night six times, giving him 17 bonuses earned in 16 UFC appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Gaethje has won numerous bonuses in his storied career, but none more memorable than what he just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-737951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737951","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=737951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}