Disclosed salaries following final month’s UFC 278 occasion in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah have surfaced forward of the group’s pay-per-view return this weekend, with now-former welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman scoring a disclosed $500,000 payday in his headlining battle towards newly-minted titleholder, Leon Edwards.
Taking predominant occasion honors on the Vivint Area within the promotion’s return to Salt Lake Metropolis, Kamaru Usman, who tried to safe his sixth profitable protection of the welterweight title, suffered a brutal fifth spherical excessive kick knockout loss to challenger, Edwards, in an enormous rallying efficiency from the Birmingham native.
Within the evening’s co-headliner, former middleweight title chaser, Paulo Costa turned in a memorable back-and-forth conflict with the returning, and since retiring former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion, Luke Rockhold – touchdown a unanimous choice victory.
Kamaru Usman scores $500,000 regardless of his KO loss to Leon Edwards at UFC 278
As per an preliminary report from MMA Fighting reporter, Steven Marrocco, Usman led the road for whole disclosed payouts at UFC 278 final month in Utah, netting himself $500,000 for his efforts within the evening’s headliner, with neither himself nor Edwards receiving win bonuses – with each seemingly sharing pay-per-view factors in consequence.
Under, discover a whole checklist of each predominant card and preliminary card fighter payouts from UFC 278 in August.
Most important Card:
Kamaru Usman ($500,000) (no win bonus) – Leon Edwards ($350,000) (no win bonus)
Paulo Costa ($65,000 and $65,000 win bonus) – Luke Rockhold ($200,000)
Merab Dvalishvili ($99,000 and $99,000 win bonus) – Jose Aldo ($400,000)
Lucie Pudilova ($23,000 and $23,000 win bonus) – Wu Yanan ($20,000)
Tyson Pedro ($43,000 and $43,000 win bonus) – Harry Hunsucker ($12,000)
Preliminary Card:
Marcin Tybura ($120,000 and $120,000 win bonus) – Alexandr Romanov ($36,000)
Jared Gordon ($47,000 and $47,000 win bonus) – Leonardo Santos ($44,000)
Sean Woodson ($24,000) – Luis Saldana ($14,000)
Ange Loosa ($12,000 and $12,000 win bonus) – A.J. Fletcher ($10,000)
Early Preliminary Card:
Amir Albazi ($16,000 and $16,000 win bonus) – Francisco Figueiredo ($14,000)
Aoriqileng ($12,000 and $12,000 win bonus) – Jay Perrin ($12,000)
Victor Altamirano ($10,000 and $10,000 win bonus) – Daniel Lacerda ($10,000)
