UFC 312 payouts: Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland’s salaries for Australian PPV
Whichever way the UFC 312 PPV headliner goes, Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland are up for big payouts and UFC sponsorship salaries.
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Dricus Du Plessis and challenger Sean Strickland up for huge payouts at UFC 312 (Source: X)
The UFC returns to ‘Down Under’ for UFC 312, its second pay-per-view event of the season. This Saturday, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena will be the epicenter of emotions, rage, and even anticipation. Former UFC 185-pound titleholder Sean Strickland challenges the guard again.
He meets UFC middleweight champ Dricus Du Plessis, who won the gold from him last year. As such, both fighter would expectedly pocket big salaries and fighter compensations. The UFC 312 payouts could get as bloated as their bloody title war.
The pair met at UFC 297, where Du Plessis stunned everyone by winning a split decision over Sean Strickland. He stripped Strickland of his middleweight title in the latter’s first defense. 13 months unto the fold, and now the duo is back at it with gut, glory, gold, revenge, and handsome payouts ahead. The UFC and the sports commissions no longer disclose deeds in UFC salaries. But here is a look into what they can earn, based on previous outings.
Salary of Sean Strickland at UFC 312
Sean Strickland enters the UFC 312 PPV (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+) main card this Saturday (Sunday locally) with stats and fights galore. “Tarzan” has a neat combined 23-3 record as King of the Cage Middleweight/UFC middleweight champ with enough of a rumble to bank neat salaries.
In his debut, Strickland swiped out fellow newcomer Bubba McDaniel at UFC 171. Per MMA Salaries, he earned a base and bonus of $10,000. His bracket increased to $20,000 vs. Igor Araujo in 2015. In his loss to Kamaru Usman, Strickland made a bracket of $24,000 in base UFC salaries and $6,000 in sponsorship bonus. The Xtreme Couture fighter jumped ship from $32,000 to a bracket of $40,000 and north against Court McGee. There was also a $48,000 base payday/win bonus along with a $50,000 performance bonus vs. Brendan Allen.
Per BetGM, he made neat payouts of a base $70,000 against Uriah Hall, $100,000 in his loss against Alex Pereira, and $150,000 from Jared Cannonier and onward. Consequently, he pocketed a stout $200,000 in base/win bonus along with another post-fight performance bonus against Abusupiyan Magomedov.
For the post-Reebok UFC Promotional Guidelines tiers, he was earning $32,000 in compliance payments to enter as challenger. Sean Strickland dethroned Israel Adesanya to bag the 185-pound title, $500,000 in base/win bonus and $1,082,000 all-in.
Against Dricus Du Plessis, he made a base of $1,200,000. Additionally, Strickland punctuated 350,000 PPV buys for payouts of $150,000. Against Paulo Costa, it was $600,000 in base/ also win bonus ($1,221,000 purse all-in). With a max bracket of $3,000,000 per fight, Sean Strickland might earn more than one but around $1.94 million. He is a lesser draw than Adesanya and DDP who made around that mark.
Salary of Dricus Du Plessis at UFC 312
In 2020, Du Plessis caught the attention of the combat clique with an impressive first-round knockout of Brendan Lesar at UAE Warriors 12. The win saw the Team CIT (South Africa) fighter transition to UFC roughly 4 years ago. Throughout which, Dricus Du Plessis has made his case for bloated UFC salaries.
He made his UFC debut against Markus Perez at UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie. Du Plessis won the fight via first-round knockout. Per Sporty Salaries, he earned in a $16,000 base/win bonus bracket along with $75,000 performance bonus. DDP soon jumped to a clear $50,000 in base/win bonus and also a major performance bonus against Darren Till.
He entered a higher payout placement of $300,000 at UFC 285, against Derek Brunson. After bombing the Blonde Bomber, he made $100,000 in base/win bonus against Robert Whittaker, banking $254,500 all-in. In his sixth fight, against UFC 312’s feature title challenger ‘Tarzan’, he again made it in the $300,000 bracket ($632,000). “Stillknocks” also entered the Venum outfitting policy multi-year sponsorship and their Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts.
Concurrently, when facing Izzy, he made a base salary of $800,000 and a win bonus payout of $800,000. Du Plessis accounted for 500,000 PPV buys punctuated ($400,000). Per BetGM, he thus made $2,042,000 all-in. Along with PPV sales and contractual agreements, he can make similarly at UFC 312.
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