It pays to be in title fights these days in the UFC.
Nicco Montaño and Roxanne Modafferi each earned $100,000 purses for their TUF 26 Finale main event and inaugural UFC women’s flyweight title fight last Friday night in Las Vegas. he Nevada Athletic Commission on Monday released the event’s salary information to MMA Fighting.
Montaño beat Modafferi, a women’s MMA pioneer, by unanimous decision in a bloody, back-and-forth affair. Modafferi has been a professional fighter since 2003 and this was the highest payout figure of her long, storied career. She was put into the main event title fight one day before the card when Sijara Eubanks, who beat her in the TUF 26 semifinals, withdrew due to hospitalization from a bad weight cut.