UFC Fight Night 292 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: 2026 total passes $8 million

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday's UFC Fight Night 292 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $188,500.

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 Fight Night 292 took place at Meta APEX The entire card streamed on Paramount+.

The full UFC Fight Night 292 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

Tom Nolan: $6,000 def. Renato Moicano: $21,000

Jacobe Smith: $4,500 def. Randy Brown: $21,000

Cody Durden: $16,000 def. Ode Osbourne: $11,000

Luana Santos: $6,000 def. Yana Santos: $11,000

Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani: $4,000 def. Farman Hasanov: $4,000

Dakota Hope: $4,000 def. Francis Marshall: $6,000

Rodrigo Sezinando: $4,000 def. Theodor Berggren: $4,000

Julian Erosa: $16,000 def. JeongYeong Lee: $4,500

Zach Reese: $6,000 def. Mickey Gall: $11,000

Joe Kropschot: $4,000 def. Nick Klein: $4,000

Piera Rodriguez: $6,000 def. Talita Alencar: $6,000

Lucia Szabova: $4,000 def. Tainara Lisboa: $4,500

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 2921 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 2026 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• "UFC Fight Night 292: Moicano vs. Nolan" – $188,500
• "UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev" – $314,500
• "UFC Fight Night 291: Buckley vs. Malott" – $186,500
• "UFC Fight Night 290: Allen vs. Duncan" – $199,500
• "UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang" – $299,500
• "UFC Fight Night 289: Rosas Jr. vs. Barcelos" – $151,000
• "UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2" – $270,500
• "UFC Fight Night 288: Silva vs. Delgado" – $244,000
• "UFC Fight Night 287: Hooker vs. Parnasse" – $185,500
• "UFC Fight Night 286: Nurmagomedov vs. Song" – $164,500
• "UFC Fight Night 285: Hernandez vs. Rodrigues" – $181,000
• "UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry" – $327,000
• "UFC Fight Night 284: Gamrot vs. Salkilld" – $165,500
• "UFC Fight Night 283: Medic vs. Rodriguez" – $192,000
• "UFC Fight Night 282: Ankalaev vs. Guskov" – $160,500
• "UFC Fight Night 281: Du Plessis vs. Usman" – $151,500
• "UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2" – $275,000
• "UFC Fight Night 280: Fiziev vs. Torres" – $162,000
• "UFC Fight Night 279: Kape vs. Horiguchi 2" – $168,000
• "UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje" – $241,500
• "UFC Fight Night 278: Muhammad vs. Bonfim" – $194,000
• "UFC Fight Night 277: Song vs. Figueiredo" – $215,000
• "UFC Fight Night 276: Allen vs. Costa" – $167,000
• "UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland" – $371,000
• "UFC Fight Night 275: Della Maddalena vs. Prates" – $188,500
• "UFC Fight Night 274: Sterling vs. Zalal" – $239,500
• "UFC Fight Night 273: Burns vs. Malott" – $176,500
• "UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg" – $312,000
• "UFC Fight Night 272: Moicano vs. Duncan" – $151,500
• "UFC Fight Night 271: Adesanya vs. Pyfer" – $239,000
• "UFC Fight Night 270: Evloev vs. Murphy" – $137,000
• "UFC Fight Night 269: Emmett vs. Vallejos" – $238,500
• "UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2" – $261,000
• "UFC Fight Night 268: Moreno vs. Kavanagh" – $175,000
• "UFC Fight Night 267: Strickland vs. Hernandez" – $207,500
• "UFC Fight Night 266: Bautista vs. Oliveira" – $206,500
• "UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2" – $234,000
• "UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett" – $269,500

Year-to-date total: $8,294,000

2025 total: $8,441,500

2024 total: $8,280,500

2023 total: $8,131,000

2022 total: $8,351,500

2021 total: $6,167,500

Program-to-date total: $47,412,000

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