{"id":42118,"date":"2025-08-03T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42118\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:53:08","slug":"ufc-on-espn-71-promotional-guidelines-compliance-pay-program-total-passes-35-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42118\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC on ESPN 71 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Program total passes $35 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2013\u00a0Fighters from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 71<\/a> event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $150,000.<\/p>\n

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.<\/p>\n

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UFC on ESPN 71 took place at the UFC Apex. The card aired on ESPN and streamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n

The full UFC on ESPN 71 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:<\/p>\n

Tatsuro Taira: $6,000 def. HyunSung Park: $4,500<\/p>\n

Chris Duncan: $6,000 def. Mateusz Rebecki: $6,000<\/p>\n

Esteban Ribovics: $6,000 def. Elves Brener: $6,000<\/p>\n

Karol Rosa: $11,000 def. Nora Cornolle: $4,500<\/p>\n

Neil Magny: $21,000 def. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos: $16,000<\/p>\n

Kevin Vallejos: $4,000 def. Danny Silva: $4,000<\/p>\n

Rinya Nakamura: $4,500 def. Nathan Fletcher: $4,000<\/p>\n

Rodolfo Vieira: $6,000 def. Tresean Gore: $6,000<\/p>\n

Andrey Pulyaev: $4,000 def. Nick Klein: $4,000<\/p>\n

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Austin Bashi: $4,000 def. John Yannis: $4,000<\/p>\n

Rafael Estevam: $4,000 def. Felipe Bunes: $4,000<\/p>\n

Piera Rodriguez: $6,000 def. Ketlen Souza: $4,500<\/p>\n

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers<\/a>, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’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 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,710; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $32,000 while title challengers get $42,000.<\/p>\n

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In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-71 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Full 2025 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:<\/p>\n

“UFC on ESPN 71: Taira vs. Park” \u2013\u00a0$150,000<\/p>\n

Year-to-date total: $4,307,000<\/p>\n

2024 total: $8,280,500<\/p>\n

2023 total: $8,188,000<\/p>\n

2022 total: $8,351,500<\/p>\n

2021 total: $6,167,500<\/p>\n

Program-to-date total: $35,324,000<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program total passes $35 million<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013\u00a0Fighters from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 71 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,1161,641,638,82,640,30004],"class_list":["post-42118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}