UFC 304 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Leon Edwards, Tom Aspinall lead with $42,000

MANCHESTER, England – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 304 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $307,500.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC 304 took place at Co-op Live. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

The full UFC 304 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Belal Muhammad: $32,000
def. Leon Edwards: $42,000

Tom Aspinall: $42,000
def. Curtis Blaydes: $32,000

Paddy Pimblett: $6,000
def. King Green: $21,000

Gregory Rodrigues: $6,000
def. Christian Leroy Duncan: $4,500

Arnold Allen: $11,000
def. Giga Chikadze: $6,000

Nathaniel Wood: $11,000
def. Daniel Pineda: $11,000

Bruna Brasil: $4,500
def. Molly McCann: $11,000

Jake Hadley: $6,000
def. Caolan Loughran: $4,000

Muhammad Mokaev: $6,000
def. Manel Kape: $6,000

Oban Elliott: $4,000
def. Preston Parsons: $4,500

Modestas Bukauskas: $6,000
def. Marcin Prachnio: $6,000

Sam Patterson: $4,000
def. Kiefer Crosbie: $4,000

Mick Parkin: $4,500
def. Lukasz Brzeski: $4,500

Shauna Bannon: $4,000
def. Alice Ardelean: $4,000

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Venum’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2024 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2-” – $307,500
• “UFC on ESPN 60: Lemos vs. Jandiroba” – $139,000
• “UFC on ESPN 59: Namajunas vs. Cortez” – $180,500
• “UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2”, – $311,500
• “UFC on ABC 6: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov” – $186,000
• “UFC on ESPN 58: Perez vs. Taira” – $116,000
• “UFC on ESPN 57: Cannonier vs. Imavov” – $186,500
• “UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier” – $281,500
• “UFC Fight Night 241: Barboza vs. Murphy” – $158,500
• “UFC on ESPN 56: Lewis vs. Nascimento” – $186,000
• “UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg” – $280,000
• “UFC on ESPN 55: Nicolau vs. Perez” – $175,000
• “UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill” – $460,000
• “UFC Fight Night 240: Allen vs. Curtis 2” – $162,500
• “UFC on ESPN 54: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot” – $173,000
• “UFC on ESPN 53: Ribas vs. Namajunas” – $148,000
• “UFC Fight Night 239: Tuivasa vs. Tybura” – $189,500
• “UFC 299: O’Malley vs. Vera 2” – $359,000
• “UFC Fight Night 238: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev” – $133,500
• “UFC Fight Night 237: Moreno vs. Royval 2” – $135,500
• “UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria” – $243,000
• “UFC Fight Night 236: Hermansson vs. Pyfer” – $236,500
• “UFC Fight Night 235: Dolidze vs. Imavov” – $170,500
• “UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis” – $285,500
• “UFC Fight Night 234: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2” – $159,500

Year-to-date total: $4,575,500
2023 total: $8,188,000
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $27,312,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 304.