When talk about UFC fighter pay and revenue splits comes up, few points are as regularly debated as the legendary ‘locker room bonuses’ of the ZUFFA era. Documents have revealed that Lyoto Machida earned $100,000 for each KO/TKO or submission win he racked up—at least in one iteration of his UFC contract. And reports are that Frank Mir got an extra $1,000,000 for his second bout with Brock Lesnar, at UFC 100.
And while those cases may be extreme, in the final day of class certification hearings for the UFC antitrust lawsuits, former UFC matchmaker Joe Silva revealed a more workaday scale and approach to just how the UFC handed out their extra cash.