UFC 245 Salaries: Kamaru Usman And Colby Covington Lead Purse Report

Kamaru Usman walked away with the UFC welterweight title at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena and a disclosed half-million purse.

Usman stopped Covington in the fifth round of their main-event bout to defend his UFC welterweight title.

And both main-event fighters led the disclosed payroll for UFC 245, pocketing $500,000 a piece.

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Aside from Usman and Covington, 10 other UFC 245 fighters earned six-figure purses: Alexander Volkanovski ($250,000), Max Holloway ($350,000), Amanda Nunes ($450,000), Germaine de Randamie ($100,000), Marlon Moraes ($220,000), Jose Aldo ( $400,000), Petr Yan ($132,000), Urijah Faber ($250,000), Omari Akhmedov ($110,000) and Matt Brown ($160,000).

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In addition to their purses, Usman, Covington, Yan and Irene Aldana also banked $50,000 for fight of the night related bonuses for their Octagon performances.

UFC 245 purses:

Kamaru Usman: $500,000 (no win bonus) def. Colby Covington: $500,000

Alexander Volkanovski: $250,000 (no win bonus) def. Max Holloway: $350,000

Amanda Nunes: $450,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus) def. Germaine de Randamie: $100,000

Marlon Moraes: $220,000 (includes $110,000 win bonus) def. Jose Aldo: $400,000

Petr Yan: $132,000 (includes $66,000 win bonus) def. Urijah Faber: $250,000

Geoff Neal: $62,000 (includes $31,000 win bonus) def. Mike Perry: $90,000

Irene Aldana: $80,000 (includes $40,000 win bonus) def. Ketlen Vieira: $33,000

Omari Akhmedov: $110,000 (includes $55,000 win bonus) def. Ian Heinisch: $25,000

Matt Brown: $160,000 (includes $80,000 win bonus) def. Ben Saunders: $35,000

Chase Hooper: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus) def. Daniel Teymur: $18,000

Brandon Moreno: $62,000 (includes $31,000 win bonus) def. Kai Kara-France: $25,000

Jessica Eye: $96,000 (includes $48,000 win bonus) def. Viviane Araujo: $45,000

Puna Soriano: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Oskar Piechota: $20,000

The total disclosed payroll for the event was $4,084,000.

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