Disclosed pay reveals Alistair Overeem as the top earner at UFC 213, with him making substantially more than both headlining fighters.
Ahead of UFC 213 at the T-Mobile Arena, in Paradise, NV ESPN’s Brett Okamoto and Yahoo’s Kevin Iole revealed the disclosed purses for a number of fighters competing at the event. Former Pride and K1 kingpin Alistair Overeem leads the way with a hefty flat rate of $800,000.
Behind Overeem are the two men competing in the headline fight: Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero. They’ll each receive $350,000 (with no win bonus) for their efforts to win the UFC’s interim middleweight championship.
Had UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes not been hospitalized and her fight with Valentina Shevchenko gone ahead each fighter would have received at least $100,000 (per John Morgan of MMA Junkie).
See below all the UFC 213’s disclosed payments reported by Iole, Okomoto, and Morgan (including win bonuses) below:
Amanda Nunes, $105,000 to show, $105,000 to win
Valentina Shevchenko, $100,000
Robert Whittaker, $350,000
Yoel Romero, $350,000
Alistair Overeem, $800,000
Fabricio Werdum, $275,000 to show, $125,000 to win
Daniel Omielanczuk, $30,000 to show, $30,000 to win
Curtis Blaydes, $19,000 to show, $19,000 to win
Travis Browne, $120,000 to show, $120,000 to win
Oleksiy Oliynyk, $27,000 to show, $27,000 to win
Anthony Pettis, $90,000 to show, $90,000 to win
Jim Miller, $71,000 to show, $71,000 to win
Jordan Mein, $25,000, to show, $25,000 to win
Belal Muhammad, $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win
Chad Laprise, $24,000 to show, $24,000 to win
Brian Camozzi, $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win
These sums do not include sponsorship money from exclusive apparel provider Reebok, performance bonuses, or so-called locker room bonuses.
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