UFC Seattle Salaries: Song Yadong and Rob Font Earn Top Pay
Song Yadong achieved a career-high victory with a technical decision over former two-division champion Henry Cejudo at UFC Seattle. He also topped the pay chart for the entire event.
Salary details for UFC Seattle were disclosed by the Washington State Department of Licensing. The highest earners were Song and bantamweight veteran Rob Font.
Song’s main event win earned him $320,000, broken down into $160,000 for appearing and an additional $160,000 for winning. The fight concluded after an accidental eye poke to Cejudo rendered him unable to continue, as determined by referee Jason Herzog.
Since the bout progressed into the third round of a five-round fight, the judges’ scorecards determined a technical decision win for Song.
Cejudo received $150,000, missing out on a potential $150,000 win bonus.
Font also secured a $320,000 payday for his split decision victory against Jean Matsumoto in the main card, mirroring Song’s earnings with $160,000 for showing and $160,000 for winning.
UFC Seattle Fighter Salaries List:
- Song Yadong: $320,000 ($160,000 show, $160,000 win)
- Rob Font: $320,000 ($160,000 show, $160,000 win)
- Alonzo Menifield: $240,000 ($120,000 show, $120,000 win)
- Brendan Allen: $210,000
- Ion Cutelaba: $190,000 ($95,000 show, $95,000 win)
- Ricky Simon: $160,000 ($80,000 show, $80,000 win)
- Henry Cejudo: $150,000
- Anthony Hernandez: $144,000 ($72,000 show, $72,000 win)
- Andre Fili: $110,000
- Modestas Bukauskas: $96,000 ($48,000 show, $48,000 win)
- Jean Silva: $90,000 ($45,000 show, $45,000 win)
- Nursulton Ruziboev: $74,000 ($37,000 show, $37,000 win)
- Melquizael Costa: $48,000 ($24,000 show, $24,000 win)
- Melsik Baghdasaryan: $35,000
- Ibo Aslan: $35,000
- Javid Basharat: $30,000
- Austin Vanderford: $30,000 ($15,000 show, $15,000 win)
- Jean Matsumoto: $26,000
- Mansur Abdul-Malik: $24,000 ($12,000 show, $12,000 win)
- Julius Walker: $12,000
- Nikolay Veretennikov: $12,000
- Eric McConico: $12,000
- Raffael Cerqueira: $10,000
- Nick Klein: $10,000
