UFC 160 Salaries: Cain Velasquez Leads the Way with $400,000

UFC 160 was a pretty memorable event. You had a couple of the bloodiest contests in recent memory. You had a “yeah, I’m just gonna try this” moment when Junior dos Santos decided the third round of a heavyweight title elimination bout was a …

UFC 160 was a pretty memorable event. 

You had a couple of the bloodiest contests in recent memory. You had a “yeah, I’m just gonna try this” moment when Junior dos Santos decided the third round of a heavyweight title elimination bout was a good time to roll out a technique he never used before. You had Cain Velasquez showing the world that his previous dismantling of Antonio Silva was no fluke and you had TJ Grant denying Gray Maynard a shot at UFC gold, while claiming that shot for his own.

And hey, the fighters even got paid for their efforts.  If you care about that kind of stuff, and I know many of you do, here are the full salaries from UFC 160 provided to Bleacher Report MMA from the Nevada State Athletic Commission:

  • Cain Velasquez: $400,000
  • Antonio Silva: $75,000
  • Junior dos Santos: $240,000 ($120,000 salary, $120,000 win bonus)
  • Mark Hunt : $160,000
  • Glover Teixeira: $48,000 ($24,000 salary, $24,000 win bonus)
  • James Te-Huna: $30,000
  • TJ Grant: $50,000 ($25,000 salary, $25,000 win bonus)
  • Gray Maynard: $45,000
  • Donald Cerrone: $82,000 ($41,000 salary, $41,000 win bonus)
  • K.J. Noons: $41,000
  • Mike Pyle: $84,000 ($42,000 salary, $42,000 win bonus)
  • Rick Story: $27,000
  • Dennis Bermudez: $28,000 ($14,000 salary, $14,000 win bonus)
  • Max Holloway: $14,000
  • Robert Whittaker: $30,000 ($15,000 salary, $15,000 win bonus)
  • Colton Smith: $15,000
  • Khabib Nurmagomedov: $28,000 ($14,000 salary, $14,000 win bonus)*
  • Abel Trujillo: $8,000
  • Stephen Thomson: $16,000 ($8,000 salary, $8,000 win bonus)
  • Nah-Shaon Burrell: $9,000
  • George Roop: $26,000 ($13,000 salary, $13,000 win bonus)
  • Brian Bowles: $19,000
  • Jeremy Stephens: $48,000 ($24,000 salary, $24,000 win bonus)
  • Estevan Payan: $10,000

 

*Surrendered 20 % due to missing weight

Salaries do not reflect any bonus awards.

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