{"id":76299,"date":"2025-08-17T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76299\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:10:07","slug":"ufc-319-promotional-guidelines-compliance-pay-aaron-pico-nets-4000-in-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76299\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 319 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Aaron Pico nets $4,000 in debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO \u2013\u00a0Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 319<\/a> event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $301,500.<\/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 319 took place at United Center. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.<\/p>\n

The full UFC 319 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:<\/p>\n

Khamzat Chimaev: $32,000 def. Dricus Du Plessis: $42,000<\/p>\n

Lerone Murphy: $6,000 def. Aaron Pico: $4,000<\/p>\n

Carlos Prates: $6,000 def. Geoff Neal: $11,000<\/p>\n

Michael Page: $4,500 def. Jared Cannonier: $16,000<\/p>\n

Tim Elliott: $21,000 def. Kai Asakura: $4,000<\/p>\n

Baisangur Susurkaev: $4,000 def. Eric Nolan: $4,000<\/p>\n

Michal Oleksiejczuk: $16,000 def. Gerald Meerschaert: $21,000<\/p>\n

Loopy Godinez: $11,000 def. Jessica Andrade: $21,000<\/p>\n

Alexander Hernandez: $16,000 def. Chase Hooper: $11,000<\/p>\n

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Drakkar Klose: $11,000 def. Edson Barboza: $21,000<\/p>\n

Karine Silva: $6,000 def. Dione Barbosa: $4,500<\/p>\n

Joseph Morales: $4,500 def. Alibi Idiris: $4,000<\/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 $4,500; 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 $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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

“UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev” \u2013\u00a0$301,500<\/p>\n

Year-to-date total: $4,813,500<\/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: $35,830,500<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 319 Promotional Guidelines Compliance: Aaron Pico debuts at $4,000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2013\u00a0Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 319 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $301,500. The program,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,17724,1161,641,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-76299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299","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=76299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}