Midnight Mania: Dana Doubles UFC 304 Bonuses, Belal Unaffected (2024)

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Paddy Pimblett earned $200,000 for his submission win over Bobby Green at UFC 304. Meanwhile, Tom Aspinall and Mick Parkin each took home $100,000. There were a total of five stoppages on the 14-fight UFC 304 card.

The Performance of the Night bonuses are awarded to the athletes who put on the best and most exciting individual performances. The Submission of the Night and the Knockout of the Night bonuses have been discontinued and the bonus amounts remained $50,000.

An entertaining night of action in Manchester wrapped with the packed house at Co-op Live left in stunned silence, as Belal Muhammad closed out the show by wrestling the UFC welterweight title away from Leon Edwards in an outstanding performance.

At the UFC 304 post-fight press conference, UFC CEO Dana White reassured assembled reporters and the MMA community that Aspinall, the UFC's first heavyweight champion from the U.K., would get his opportunity pending the outcome of Jon Jones vs.

' And he said, '$303,000? ' He goes, 'No, no, no, $50,000,'” Cruz said on The MMA Hour. ”But reality of the fact is, he did not — they gave $300,000 bonuses for [UFC] 300 and [Pereira] did not get Performance of the Night,” he continued. “They gave two to Max [Holloway], so he was a little bit salty about that.

After most UFC events, the promotion doles out $200,000 in fight-night bonus awards. The Fight of the Night winners get $50,000 each, and the UFC also distributes two Performance of the Night awards in that same amount.

"Pereira goes, 'I've got enough supercars. ' He wants a Cybertruck." His total purse of $3.305 million [£2.6 million] has eclipsed the estimated $2.85 million [£2.24 million] that he pocketed for beating Jamahal Hill at UFC 300 in April.

Per Sportskeeda, Ige's last disclosed purse was the $160,000 that he received after his loss to Bryce Mitchell last September. Going by Ige's comments, this means he is likely to have earned somewhere between $320,000 and $480,000 to compete at UFC 303.

“The Baddy” cashed in big after picking up one of three UFC 304 Performance of the Night awards, with UFC CEO Dana White announcing at the evening's post-fight press conference that Pimblett was given a $200,000 bonus. That's four times the standard bonus of $50,000.

Dana Frederick White Jr. (born July 28, 1969) is an American businessman who is the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a global mixed martial arts organization. He is also the owner of Power Slap, a slap fighting promotion. In August 2019, White's net worth was estimated at $500 million.