Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise at this point, but after back-to-back, insanely brutal wars to cap off a night of PPV UFC action, it’s still disappointing to see the participants in UFC 236’s pair of interim title fights fail to even crack half-million dollar disclosed purses. The high water mark, of $350,000, was hit by Max Holloway and Israel Adesanya. While Dustin Poirier ended the night with a disclosed payday of $250,000 and Kelvin Gastelum go $150,000.
All told, the UFC paid out $1,972,000 in disclosed salaries. For comparison, the UFC paid out a reported $3,334,000 for their recent UFC 235 card, also headlined by two title fights.