Noche UFC payouts: how much did Jean Silva, Brandon Moreno and every fighter make?
A verified $695,500 minimum payout, and an estimated $2M+ in real show money, across Noche UFC: Silva vs Delgado, with our salary estimate alongside every fighter's compliance pay and bonus in one table.
Jean Silva needed one round less than his last two bonus fights to finish this one. His third-round submission of Jose Delgado in a Noche UFC main event that only existed because Yair Rodriguez pulled out earned him a $100,000 Performance of the Night check, and it anchors a Desert Diamond Arena card whose verified minimum payout runs to at least $695,500 across thirteen finished fights, before a dollar of actual show money is even counted.
Who won the Noche UFC bonuses?
- Performance of the Night: Jean Silva ($100,000), third-round submission of Jose Delgado in the main event.
- Performance of the Night: Sean King ($100,000), first-round knockout of Jessie Rosas, in Sean King's UFC debut.
- Fight of the Night: Tommy McMillen and Marwan Rahiki ($100,000 each), a unanimous-decision war on the main card.
Under the bonus structure the UFC has run since UFC 324 (January 24, 2026), Fight of the Night and Performance of the Night both pay $100,000, and any fighter who wins by knockout or submission without collecting one of those awards instead banks a separate $25,000 finish incentive; the two do not stack.
Noche UFC payouts: what every fighter made
The table below combines three things: the promotional guidelines compliance pay tier for each fighter's UFC tenure (as reported by MMA Junkie), the bonus or finish-incentive money on top of it where it applies, and our own estimate of each fighter's actual show money, built from 18 years of disclosed UFC purses. The first two columns add up to a verified floor; "our estimate" is a separate, unverified projection of the real number, typically within about ±30% by our own error-checking, and the two are NOT the same thing. The UFC does not disclose base purses for U.S. cards, which is exactly why both numbers matter: one is what we can prove, the other is our best read on what a fighter actually banked. See the live payout table for the verified figures and each fighter's salary page for the estimate methodology.
Main card
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Silva | won (sub, R3) | 9 | $6,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $106,000 | ~$110,000 |
| Jose Delgado | lost | 7 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$45,000 |
| Brandon Moreno | won (split dec.) | 21 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$229,000 |
| Joseph Morales | lost | 6 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$48,000 |
| Tommy McMillen | won (unan. dec.) | 4 | $4,500 | $100,000 (FotN) | $104,500 | ~$42,000 |
| Marwan Rahiki | lost (unan. dec.) | 4 | $4,500 | $100,000 (FotN) | $104,500 | ~$31,000 |
| Alexa Grasso | won (unan. dec.) | 16 | $16,000 | none | $16,000 | ~$186,000 |
| Manon Fiorot | lost | 10 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$117,000 |
| Curtis Blaydes | won (unan. dec.) | 21 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$185,000 |
| Waldo Cortes Acosta | lost | 15 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$117,000 |
| David Martinez | won (unan. dec.) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$60,000 |
| Dan Ige | lost | 23 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$134,000 |
Prelims
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Elliott | won (unan. dec.) | 23 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$105,000 |
| Édgar Cháirez | lost | 8 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$43,000 |
| Ignacio Bahamondes | won (unan. dec.) | 12 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$98,000 |
| Muslim Salikhov | lost | 15 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$118,000 |
| Yousri Belgaroui | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 5 | $4,500 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,500 | ~$35,000 |
| Djorden Santos | lost | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$20,000 |
| Thomas Gantt | won (sub, R3) | 3 | $4,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,000 | ~$17,000 |
| Drakkar Klose | lost | 14 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$80,000 |
| Rongzhu | won (unan. dec.) | 7 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$45,000 |
| Rafa Garcia | lost | 12 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$85,000 |
| Sean King | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 1 | $4,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $104,000 | not yet available |
| Jessie Rosas | lost | 1 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | not yet available |
| Regina Tarin | won (unan. dec.) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$23,000 |
| JJ Aldrich | lost | 18 | $16,000 | none | $16,000 | ~$80,000 |
"Our estimate" is a projection of show money only, separate from and not summed into the verified-minimum column; it reads "not yet available" for the two UFC debuts on the card, since we need contract history we don't have yet for a fighter's first fight.
Add up just the bolded verified minimums and the card's floor is $695,500 across the 26 fighters who actually competed, on top of an estimated combined show-money pool north of $2 million once every "our estimate" figure is added in. Three fighters who were on the poster earlier in the week, Yair Rodriguez, Kelvin Gastelum and Ramiro Jimenez, never got paid at all; all three withdrew before their bouts happened.
How much did Jean Silva make in total?
Between his verified $106,000 (compliance pay plus the Performance of the Night bonus) and what we estimate his show money to be, Jean Silva's night is worth roughly $216,000 by our estimate once his show purse is folded in, for a fighter who was not supposed to be in the main event a week ago. That's still a lower bound: our estimate methodology tends to undercount side letters and other undisclosed terms for fighters this deep into a division's top ten.
The rookie who out-earned two-thirds of the card
Sean King fought once in his life inside the Octagon and left with a verified $104,000, more than every prelim fighter on the show except Yousri Belgaroui and Thomas Gantt combined, and more than main-card veterans like Manon Fiorot, Jose Delgado and Joseph Morales. A first-round knockout in a UFC debut is one of the few ways compliance pay stops mattering; the bonus alone is 25 times his show-money tier. We have no estimate for him yet since it takes at least one prior UFC contract to build one, which is its own small irony: the rookie's real payday is the one number on this page that isn't an estimate.
Why don't we know the exact purses?
Nevada stopped requiring commissions to disclose fighter purses years ago, and Arizona, where this card was held, doesn't publish them either. What we can verify is compliance pay (a published minimum tied to tenure) and official bonuses; what we can estimate is show money, built from years of disclosed purses elsewhere. For the long history of what used to be public and why it stopped, see what a decade of disclosed UFC pay showed, and browse every fighter's estimate at /salaries.
The receipts
Jean Silva has now collected a bonus in four of his nine UFC fights, including three of his last four: Fight of the Night in July 2024, Performance of the Night twice in 2025, and this one. Tommy McMillen's card is shorter but louder: three bonus checks in his last three fights, worth $300,000 combined at today's rate, out of only four UFC appearances total.