Las Vegas – For years you heard about “locker room bonuses” given out to UFC fighters who, according to Dana White and other promotion execs, deserved something extra.
Those days are a thing of the past.
According to White, these bonuses, which were not normally made public outside of passing comments from the UFC CEO and president during press conferences, have been replaced by the new $25,000 terminal bonuses.
“What’s always happened in this company, since we started this company, is that every night I told you ‘okay, these guys won these bonuses,’ but everyone on the card would get a check, for different dollar amounts depending on how they fought,” White told media including Cageside Press after UFC 324 on Saturday. “Somewhere between $5,000 and $25,000 dollars. Every event.”
“Those go a long way, and now finishers get a $25,000 bonus,” White added.
The UFC’s new finishing bonuses were revealed Saturday, first by the Sports Business Journal, citing White, and then during the UFC 324 broadcast. Welterweight Ty Miller, making his promotional debut, would have been the first to collect this bonus. However, after receiving a Performance of the Night bonus, Miller will take home not 25K, but 100K.
However, Waldo-Cortes Acosta and Nikita Krylov did qualify. Alex Perez, who missed weight for his fight with Charles Johnson, did not. Despite Perez recording a TKO finish, fighters who miss weight are ineligible for the award, as with Performance and Fight of the Night bonuses.
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