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Former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley may not have gotten the victory, but he did go home with the biggest base payday from UFC Vegas.

Woodley suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Gilbert Burns after getting outclassed over five rounds in the evening’s headliner. It means he is now on the first losing streak of his professional career.

The only consolation for “The Chosen One” was that he earned the biggest payday on the night as he received $200,000 to show. He would have earned another $150,000 had he gotten the victory, however.

Burns, on the other hand, received $84,000 to show and $84,000 as a win bonus. His $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus took his total to $218,000.

Not a bad payday for Burns who is now the only fighter to have competed twice during the pandemic.

Full UFC Vegas Salaries

Here are the full UFC Vegas salaries (via MMA Fighting):

• Tyron Woodley: $200,000 (win bonus would have been $150,000)
• Gilbert Burns: $218,000 — $84,000 to show, $84,000 to win plus $50,000 for “Performance of the Night.
• Augusto Sakai: $100,000 — $50,000 to show, $50,000 to win
• Blagoy Ivanov: $60,000
• Billy Quarantillo: $24,000 — $12,000 to show, $12,000 to win
• Spike Carlyle: $12,000
• Roosevelt Roberts: $46,400 — $22,000 to show, $22,000 to win plus $2,400 for his opponent missing weight.
• Brok Weaver: $9,600 — $12,000 to show minus $2,400 paid as penalty for missing weight.
• Mackenzie Dern: $116,000 — $33,000 to show, $33,000 to win plus $50,000 for “Performance of the Night”
• Hannah Cifers: $25,000
• Katlyn Chookagian: $120,000 — $60,000 to show, $60,000 to win
• Antonina Shevchenko: $35,000
• Daniel Rodriguez: $24,000 — $12,000 to show, $12,000 to win
• Gabriel Green: $12,000
• Jamahal Hill: $24,000 — $12,000 to show, $12,000 to win
• Klidson Abreu: $18,000
• Brandon Royval: $74,000 — $12,000 to show, $12,000 to win plus $50,000 for “Fight of the Night”
• Tim Elliott: $81,000 — $31,000 to show plus $50,000 for “Fight of the Night”
• Casey Kenney: $54,000 — $27,000 to show, $27,000 to win
• Louis Smolka: $48,000
• Chris Gutierrez: $40,000 — $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win
• Vince Morales: $20,000

What do you make of the UFC Vegas salaries?

Woodley Reflects On Setback

Tyron Woodley has no excuses about his defeat to Gilbert Burns.

The former welterweight champion returned to action for the first time since March last year when he met Burns in the UFC Vegas headliner on Saturday night.

However, it ended up being a lopsided decision defeat for Woodley who was dropped multiple times and outclassed in pretty much every area of the fight. It marked just his fourth professional defeat as well as the first two-fight losing streak of his career.

Although he didn’t stick around for a post-fight interview, “The Chosen One” took to Instagram to reflect on the fight (via BJ Penn).

“What’s up people. Like I said, you just can’t get on the camera when you win, you have to get on the camera when you lose too and umm I felt good. I don’t have no excuses. I felt good and I trained hard. I was in great shape. I felt like I did everything right. Everything felt good from the walkout to the stretch and every single thing about the fight. I looked (Gilbert Burns) in the eyes yesterday and I knew he was going to be ready to fight. I thought that was good. He did a good job of you know keeping the distance and not coming into shots. And I just felt like I was reaching so I don’t have any excuses. I will hold my head high. A lot of mother f*ckers would have let somebody finish them off in that moment but I didn’t give up. I was just thinking about everything going on right now and all those people protesting and fighting for something good. So I was like ‘I just can’t give up in here’ and I never really gave up.

“I hoped I was going to win the fight to be honest. I know the first round started off rough. I don’t know how that motherf*cker elbowed me. I know he kicked me in my damn leg and that thing hasn’t been right since. I don’t know what he hit me with on the feet if it was a elbow or what. You motherf*ckers saw it but whatever. He kicked me in my damn leg and then ever since then that thing was just not right. I could not get a rhythm going. So injury wise I think I am fine. I’ve got a nice little cut that you can’t see because I’ve got the best plastic surgeon dude on earth Dr. Greg, who hooked me up with some stitches. So I got like 3,000 stitches in my eye. Because that thing was split wide open. But yea my leg, that motherf*cker look like I got a watermelon inside my skin. So I just wanted to come and face you guys. I don’t understand all of this, but I just know that I have to trust God.”

What did you think of Woodley’s performance?