With UFC On FOX 19 officially in the books, it’s time to find out how much money fighters who competed on Saturday’s fight card earned via their new, mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Below are the payouts that the fighters earned strictly from the UFC/Reebok outfitting deal for the fights from Tampa, Florida this past Saturday, April 16, 2016.
Due to the unique nature of the Reebok sponsorship payout system, Rashad Evans, who lost to Glover Teixeira in the evening’s main event, still earned three times as much as Teixeira from the Reebok payouts.
With that said, let’s take a look at what each fighter who competed on Saturday’s card earned from their mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Note: These are not the usual fighter salaries we post after each event, but instead the amount of money fighters earned strictly from the new Reebok sponsorship deal.
Glover Teixeira: $5,000 def. Rashad Evans: $15,000
Rose Namajunas: $2,500 def. Tecia Torres: $2,500
Khabib Nurmagomedov: $5,000 def. Darrell Horcher: $2,500
Cub Swanson: $15,000 def. Hacran Dias: $5,000
Michael Chiesa: $5,000 def. Beneil Dariush: $5,000
Raquel Pennington: $5,000 def. Bethe Correia: $2,500
Santiago Ponzinibbio: $5,000 def. Court McGee: $5,000
Michael Graves: $2,500 def. Randy Brown: $2,500
John Dodson: $5,000 def. Manny Gamburyan: $15,000
Cezar Ferreira: $5,000 def. Oluwale Bamgbose: $2,500
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos: $2,500 def. Omari Akhmedov: $5,000TOTAL: $120,000
How do Reebok and the UFC decide how much fighters earn through the new Reebok sponsorship deal? How do they reach the figures that will be paid out to the fighters? Click ahead to page two for a full breakdown that explains what it takes to make a certain amount of money through this new, mandatory sponsorship deal between UFC and Reebok.
