UFC Fight Night 293 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Two get highest payout of $16,000

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LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday's UFC Fight Night 293 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $181,500.

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 293 took place at Meta APEX. The entire card streamed on Paramount+.

The full UFC Fight Night 293 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

Johnny Walker: $16,000 def. Waldo Cortes Acosta: $11,000

Tatiana Suarez: $11,000 def. Virna Jandiroba: $11,000

Elijah Smith: $4,500 def. Davey Grant: $16,000

Lucas Fernando: $4,000 def. Billy Elekana: $4,500

Nina Milosevic: $4,000 def. Priscila Cachoeira: $11,000

Mitch Raposo: $4,500 def. Marcos Degli: $4,000

Ollie Schmid: $4,000 def. Keiichiro Nakamura: $4,000

Thomas Petersen: $6,000 def. Gabriel Lorenco: $4,000

Karine Silva: $6,000 def. Gabriella Fernandes: $6,000

Murtazali Magomedov: $4,000 def. Jose Delano: $4,000

Austin Bashi: $4,500 def. Carlos Calderon: $4,000

Andre Petroski: $11,000 def. Mantas Kondratavicius: $4,000

Seokhyeon Ko: $4,500 def. Wellington Turman: $6,000

Jose Souza: $4,000 def. Jonny Parsons: $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 2931 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:

Year-to-date total: $8,475,500

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: $47,593,500

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC Fight Night 293 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Two get highest payout of $16,000