{"id":378304,"date":"2026-06-28T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:03:11","slug":"pfl-san-diego-payouts-revealed-a-j-mckee-banks-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378304\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL San Diego Payouts Revealed: A.J. McKee Banks $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Main event winner A.J. McKee Jr. took home the biggest disclosed paycheck of the night, banking $100,000 for his dominant unanimous decision win over Salamat Isbulaev (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\/453784\/pfl-san-diego-live-streaming-results-video-highlights-for-mckee-vs-isbulaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Isbulaev, meanwhile, walked away with just $10,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Bellator Flyweight champion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/20\/24448620\/pfl-6-results-world-tournament-2025-live-streaming-highlights-rabadanov-vs-lee-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PFL tournament winner<\/a> Liz Carmouche also banked $100,000 for her second-round submission win over former UFC fighter Viviane Araujo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\/453870\/highlights-liz-carmouche-strangles-viviane-araujo-calls-for-the-bantamweight-division-pfl-san-diego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Araujo earned $20,000 in defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As always, it is worth noting that these numbers are only what PFL disclosed to the California State Athletic Commission. Fighters could make more through sponsorships, locker-room bonuses or other undisclosed payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, some of the numbers are pretty jarring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At PFL San Diego, she made less than half of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more PFL San Diego results, coverage and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/professional-fighters-league-pfl\/453784\/pfl-san-diego-live-streaming-results-video-highlights-for-mckee-vs-isbulaev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main event winner A.J. McKee Jr. took home the biggest disclosed paycheck of the night, banking $100,000 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[152120,152946,74,76,75,153103],"class_list":["post-378304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-ufc-payouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}