How much money will Ilya Topuria earn for his fight with UFC’s Max Holloway?

While he doesn’t just do it for the money, it’s clear that this type of fighting also allows him to survive day to day. And, as he said, you can’t make a living playing petanque… but in the case of the UFC, you can achieve a fairly comfortable life.

UFC salaries

salaries fighters in the UFC differ significantly depending on their category, fame and career in the competition. Fighters minor categoryor those who have just started their journey in the UFC can win from 15,000 to 30,000 dollars for battle.

Meanwhile the fighters middle category can go between $80,000 and $250,000and, finally, those who have distinguished career and good wins have salaries that vary from 500,000 to 3,000,000 dollars. Ilya falls into the latter group with an impressive professional track record. 15-0 and a plenary session at the UFC, 7 wins in 7 fights

from him debut October 2020.

Five fights and a seven-figure salary

However, the specific salaries of UFC fighters are well kept secret company, and it is difficult to give exact figures. Despite this, sources close to the newspaper reported that Topuria will receive an amount of seven-figure sum for his fight

regardless of the result.

In addition, Topuria’s salary will gradually increase with each battleregardless of the results obtained. Therefore, at least a Latin American-Georgian received a figure of million euros for their confrontation against the former UFC featherweight champion. The amount that will increase as he moves forward with the next fights already signed with the mixed martial arts company.

Thus, thanks to the next battles that await Topuria, the Latino-Georgian will see an increase in his bank account by at least five million dollarsabout 4.6 million euros “won by storm”as he revealed in April when he was interviewed by David Broncano at La Resistencia.