UFC 256 Fight Night Payout: How Much Money Will Each Fighter Receive?

Prateek Arya
|PublishedDec 12, 2020

UFC 256 Fight Night Payout: How Much Money Will Each Fighter Receive?

With the global pandemic laying waste incessantly, one wouldn’t have thought that 2020 would prove to be a prosperous year for UFC. While it is precisely been the case, but did it had any effect on fighters’ purse, is the question whose answer is not unidirectional.

While the statistics around the total buy-rate make headlines after a Pay-Per-View culminates, fighter salaries remain hidden.

Neither the UFC nor the Nevada state commission discloses, what a fighter has been paid. Thus, there seemingly never emerges any accurate figures, however, conjectures can be drawn on the basis of the study of UFC pay scales and on the basis of some rare occasions when the state commission released the earnings.

So, the same hypothesis can be applied on the last Pay-Per-View of the year-UFC 256-as well to figure, which fighter will be the recipient of more money.

At the event, fighters such as Deiveson Figueiredo, Tony Ferguson, Charles Oliveira, Brandon Moreno, Kevin Holland, etc are scheduled to make an appearance, therefore, while these professionals are going to create a spectacle for the fans, it is a general realization that as per their stature they will receive a whopping sum in return.

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UFC 256 Fight Night Payout

To reach a correct estimate, we delved deep into the fighters’ previous records, their stature, and their frequency in the ring, and came out with a range. There are three sets of ranges of payout, and keeping in mind the aforementioned, we have placed the fighters in one of the columns.

$5000-$50,000