UFC Fight Night 228 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Tim Means' $21,000 leads card

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 228 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $164,500.

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 228 took place at the UFC Apex. The entire card streamed on ESPN+.

The full UFC Fight Night 228 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

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Mateusz Gamrot: $6,000
def. Rafael Fiziev: $6,000

Bryce Mitchell: $6,000
def. Dan Ige: $11,000

Marina Rodriguez: $11,000
def. Michelle Waterson-Gomez: $11,000

Bryan Battle: $6,000
def. A.J. Fletcher: $4,500

Charles Jourdain: $11,000
def. Ricardo Ramos: $11,000

Miles Johns: $6,000
def. Dan Argueta: $4,500

Tim Means: $21,000
def. Andre Fialho: $6,000

Cody Brundage: $6,000
def. Jacob Malkoun: $6,000

Mohammed Usman: $4,000
def. Jake Collier: $11,000

Mizuki Inoue: $4,000
def. Hannah Goldy: $4,500

Montserrat Rendon: $4,000
def. Tamires Vidal: $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 2281 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 2023 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

• “UFC Fight Night 228: Fiziev vs. Gamrot” – $164,500
• “Noche UFC: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2” – $185,500
• “UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland” – $209,000
• “UFC Fight Night 226: Gane vs. Spivac” – $128,500
• “UFC Fight Night 225: Holloway vs. Korean Zombie” – $196,000
• “UFC 292: Sterling vs. O’Malley” – $340,500
• “UFC on ESPN 50: Luque vs. dos Anjos” – $173,000
• “UFC on ESPN 50: Sandhagen vs. Font” – $170,500
• “UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2” – $271,500
• “UFC Fight Night 224: Aspinall vs. Tybura” – $225,000
• “UFC on ESPN 49: Holm vs. Bueno Silva” – $126,500
• “UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez” – $319,500
• “UFC on ESPN 47: Strickland vs. Magomedov” – $144,500
• “UFC on ABC 5: Emmett vs. Topuria” – $174,000
• “UFC on ESPN 46: Vettori vs. Cannonier” – $140,000
• “UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana” – $236,500
• “UFC on ESPN 45: Kara-France vs. Albazi” – $199,500
• “UFC Fight Night 224: Dern vs. Hill” – $179,500
• “UFC on ABC 4: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida” – $267,500
• “UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo” – $267,500
• “UFC Fight Night 223: Song vs. Simon” – $144,500
• “UFC Fight Night 222: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes” – $181,500
• “UFC on ESPN 44: Holloway vs. Allen” – $254,500
• “UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2” – $274,500
• “UFC on ESPN 43: Vera vs. Sandhagen” – $137,000
• “UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3” – $266,500
• “UFC Fight Night 221: Yan vs. Dvalishvili” – $194,000
• “UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane” – $282,500
• “UFC Fight Night 220: Muniz vs. Allen” – $126,000
• “UFC Fight Night 219: Andrade vs. Blanchfield” – $158,000
• “UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski” – $263,000
• “UFC Fight Night 218: Lewis vs. Spivac” – $136,000
• “UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill” – $359,500
• “UFC Fight Night 217: Strickland vs. Imavov” – $137,000

Year-to-date total: $6,294,500
2022 total: $8,351,500
2021 total: $6,167,500
Program-to-date total: $20,883,500

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 228.