With fighter pay in spotlight, UFC vets shed light on life in octagon’s middle-class

For three of the UFC’s rank and file, the bottom line rarely ends at “show” and “win.”

Sponsorships, performance bonuses, and discretionary bonuses help to
line the pockets of George Roop, Jacob Volkmann and Nam Phan.

They are not millionaires. But despite a wide disparity in pay with
their headliner counterparts, figures disclosed by the fighters painted
an upper-middle-class living.