Lawsuit Reveals The Salary Of UFC Fighters Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey & Jon Jones

The continuing UFC antitrust action has led to further discoveries. The three greatest fighters in the history of the sport—Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, and Jon Jones—have their new pay made public.

Lawsuit Reveals The Salary Of UFC Fighters Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey & Jon Jones

After a Court of Appeals rejected the UFC’s appeal in this matter, the website Bloody Elbow gained access to a number of declassified papers, which the corporation released and included the bags that the athletes used in their battles over the aforementioned time frame.

This is a result of Judge Boulware’s efforts to achieve openness with little redaction by pushing for the release of all documents pertaining to the UFC antitrust case.

Based on the information supplied by the UFC for this procedure, Conor McGregor has only received $12.4 million if we include his rematch with Nate Diaz and the bout with Eddie Alvarez, in which prominent financial journals awarded The Notorious $27 million in emoluments from the UFC that year. It’s true that in his later visits, McGregor made greater use of his contractual leverage with Dana White’s firm.

Other celebrities’ pay are also included in the court records. For example, Anderson Silva made $27.3 million for his nine fights from 2011 to 2016. Data is also available for George St-Pierre, Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones, and Demetrious Johnson, who received less than $600,000 for their most recent two world title bouts. Lesnar, Brock, obtained record earnings for his fight against Mark Hunt.

Ronda Rousey

  • 1.817,907 $ vs. Miesha Tate (Mar 2012)
  • 574.720 $ vs. Liz Carmouche (Feb 2013)
  • 870.969 $ vs. Sara McMann (Feb 2014)
  • 1.063.688 $ vs. Alexis Davis (Jul 2014)
  • 1.458.282 $ vs. Cat Zingano (Feb 2015)
  • 2.642.204 $ vs. Bethe Correia (Aug 2015)
  • 4.476.662 $ o 4.536,932 vs. Holly Holm (Nov 2015)
  • 4.879.766 $ vs. Amanda Nunes (Dec 2016)

Conor McGregor

  • 3.285.000 $ (includes bonus of 2.11m dollars) vs. Chad Mendes (Jul 2015)
  • 4.476.662 $ o 4.536.932 vs. José Aldo – Aldo received 2.377.699 $ (Dec 2015)
  • 5.576.315 $ vs. Nate Diaz 1 – Díaz received 2.838.158 and PPV event generated 61m (Mar 2016)
  • 5.615.490 $ vs. Nate Diaz 2 – Díaz received 4.315.490 (Aug 2016)
  • 6.812.374 $ vs. Eddie Alvarez: event generated 66m on PPV for UFC (Nov 2016)

Jon Jones

  • 1.176.108 $ vs. Quinton Jackson (Sep 2011)
  • 1.705.969 $ vs. Lyoto Machida (Dec 2011)
  • 2.278.553 $ vs. Rashad Evans (Apr 2012)
  • 1.566.196 $ vs. Vitor Belfort (Sep 2012)
  • 2.750.000 $ o 1.244.460 vs. Chael Sonnen (Apr 2013)
  • 1.173.560 $ vs. Alexander Gustafson 1 (Sep 2013)
  • 1.237.880 $ vs. Golver Teixeira (Apr 2014)
  • 3.637.500 $ vs. Daniel Cormier 1 (Jan 2015)
  • 2.677.530 $ vs. Ovince Saint Preux (Apr 2016)

Although the report did not name the fighters, it did list the number of UFC bouts that each fighter had engaged in at the time, as well as the total number of athletes who had been paid in this manner. As a result, Bloody Elbow was able to identify the combatants, who included Jon Jones, Ronda Rousey, and Conor McGregor.

Even if the details of recent fights are still unknown, it’s shocking to discover that the top names in the sport aren’t even getting paid in the eight figures. The UFC has grown exponentially under the leadership of McGregor and Rousey in particular, yet their pay is meager in comparison to the organization’s return on investment (ROI).

 

 

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