UFC 320 Star's Wife Making Staggering Amount From OnlyFans After 'Quitting' MMA

The wife of a fighter set to compete at UFC 320 is reportedly making an eye-watering amount of money through the sale of adult content after quitting MMA.

UFC 320 will, no doubt, be a hugely exciting affair with Magomed Ankalaev set to defend his light heavyweight title against Alex Pereira in the pair’s second bout which headlines the card at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Before that mouthwatering clash, Corey Sandhagen will take on Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight title after Jiri Prochazka and Khalil Rountree Junior go head-to-head in a light heavyweight bout.

However, a fighter on the early prelims has a particularly interesting back story, with his wife making a fortune from her exploits on OnlyFans after she quit MMA despite reaching the UFC.

Austin Vanderford will take on Ramiz Brahimaj in a welterweight bout on Saturday. Vanderford, 35, is married to Paige VanZant, who is a woman of many talents, having had mixed martial arts, wrestling and bare-knuckle boxing fights throughout her career.

VanZant, 31, boasts an MMA record of 8-5 but has not fought since losing to Amanda Ribas at UFC 251 back in July 2020.

Since then, the 31-year-old has fought twice in the Conor McGregor-owned Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) before drawing a professional boxing bout against British adult star and internet personality Elle Brooke in May 2024.

VanZant has also won two out of three Power Slap contests, with her most recent win coming against Mikael-Michelle Brown in March of this year.

And despite, no doubt, boasting a healthy bank balance from her fighting career, the American is also raking in the cash via OnlyFans.

The former UFC star started her venture into adult content in 2021, and it’s fair to say from a financial standpoint, this was a great decision.

Speaking on the ‘Only Stans’ podcast in 2023, she claimed that she “made more money in 24 hours on OnlyFans than I had in my entire fighting career combined”.

As expected, she has been inundated with odd requests from fans, with one buying a kiss card for $13,000.

In 2024, she also claimed that fighting was just a “hobby” and that OnlyFans was now her long-term career.

"Fighting, I have to understand now, is just a hobby; it's my part-time job," she told TMZ.

"I have to realise that OnlyFans is what's providing everything for me."

But what does her husband make of his wife’s career choice?

Well, it’s fair to say he has been supportive of her choice, given the financial benefit to the couple.

Speaking about the moment she started her account ahead of her first BKFC fight, she explained how she logged in after it had been live for a few hours and found she had around 52,000 subscribers.

Vanzant told MMA Fighting in 2024: “I’m in the car on the way from the press conference back to my hotel, and I logged in, and it had only been live for an hour, and I was seeing the subscribers going up, and I think I had 52,000 subscribers at one point. I was showing my husband, and I was like, ‘Oh my word!’ That moment driving back [to the hotel], I was of course extremely excited to fight, but I was like, ‘Our lives just changed forever’. I was like, ‘This is OK, this is going to work out. All the risks are worth it. If I never work with another sponsor again, we’re going to be fine’.”