UFC Belgrade payouts: how much did Uros Medic, Jan Blachowicz and every fighter make?
Every UFC Belgrade fighter's verified payout in one table: Uros Medic's $111,000 night, four $100,000 bonuses, eight $25,000 finish incentives, $792,000 total.
Uros Medic needed 30 seconds of work at Belgrade Arena on Saturday, and the shortest night of his career came with a guaranteed check attached: a $100,000 Performance of the Night bonus for the first round TKO of Daniel Rodriguez in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Medic vs Rodriguez. It is the fourth Performance bonus of Medic's UFC run, and all four have now come the same way: knockout, round one.
Below is the full-card payout breakdown, with a difference you won't find in the usual "payouts" aggregation: every number here is either confirmed or transparently derived, and everything that is actually secret is labeled secret. In total, the Belgrade card carried at least $792,000 in verifiable fighter money: $400,000 in post-fight bonuses, $200,000 in finish incentives and roughly $192,000 in tenure-based compliance pay.
Who won the UFC Belgrade bonuses?
The UFC handed out four Performance of the Night awards and no Fight of the Night, which tells you what kind of card this was: 12 of the 14 fights ended in a finish, so the promotion spent its whole bonus pool on individual violence. Each award is $100,000: the UFC doubled both Performance and Fight of the Night money starting with UFC 324 in January 2026, and Belgrade's four checks are all at the new rate. The same structural update added a $25,000 incentive for every knockout, TKO or submission win, paid to finish winners who don't already collect one of the $100,000 awards. With 12 finishes on the card, that put an extra $25,000 in eight more pockets.
| Fighter | Bonus | How they earned it |
|---|---|---|
| Uros Medic | Performance of the Night | TKO of Daniel Rodriguez, R1 0:30 |
| Navajo Stirling | Performance of the Night | TKO of Jan Blachowicz, R1 2:56 |
| Gilbert Urbina | Performance of the Night | TKO of Vlasto Cepo, R1 1:01 |
| Nina Milosevic | Performance of the Night | TKO of Hailey Cowan, R1 3:41 |
For Stirling, Urbina and Milosevic these are first career UFC bonuses. Stirling's might be the most consequential $100,000 of the night: the unbeaten New Zealander took the fight as a replacement after Jan Blachowicz's original opponent Bogdan Guskov fell off the card, then starched the No. 4 ranked former champion inside a round. Milosevic closed her night almost as fast, flattening Hailey Cowan before the first round was out.
UFC Belgrade payouts: what every fighter made
Since the UFC does not disclose purses and Serbia has no commission that publishes them, a fighter's payday has four parts: the secret one (the contracted show/win purse), and three knowable ones. Post-fight bonuses are announced by the promotion. The $25,000 finish incentive follows a published rule (every KO/TKO/submission win, unless the fighter earned a bigger award). Compliance pay, the tenure-based program that replaced fight-week sponsorships (the "Venum pay" era tiers, most recently reported by MMA Junkie), is set by how many UFC bouts a fighter has: $4,000 at 1-3 bouts, $4,500 at 4-5, $6,000 at 6-10, $11,000 at 11-15, $16,000 at 16-20, and $21,000 at 21 or more. We know every fighter's exact UFC bout count from our own database, so the "verified minimum" column below is the floor each fighter banked in Belgrade before their undisclosed purse.
Main card
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uros Medic | W · TKO R1 | 11 | $11,000 | $100,000 | $111,000 |
| Daniel Rodriguez | L | 15 | $11,000 | - | $11,000 |
| Navajo Stirling | W · TKO R1 | 6 | $6,000 | $100,000 | $106,000 |
| Jan Blachowicz | L | 23 | $21,000 | - | $21,000 |
| Aleksandar Rakic | W · UD | 12 | $11,000 | - | $11,000 |
| Marcin Tybura | L | 25 | $21,000 | - | $21,000 |
| Robert Valentin | W · SUB R1 | 5 | $4,500 | $25,000 | $29,500 |
| Dusko Todorovic | L | 11 | $11,000 | - | $11,000 |
| Gilbert Urbina | W · TKO R1 | 5 | $4,500 | $100,000 | $104,500 |
| Vlasto Cepo | L | 1 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Noah Gugnon | W · SUB R1 | 1 | $4,000 | $25,000 | $29,000 |
| Milos Janicic | L | 1 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
Preliminary card
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tofiq Musayev | W · TKO R2 | 3 | $4,000 | $25,000 | $29,000 |
| Ludovit Klein | L | 13 | $11,000 | - | $11,000 |
| Michael Oliveira | W · TKO R1 | 1 | $4,000 | $25,000 | $29,000 |
| Oban Elliott | L | 6 | $6,000 | - | $6,000 |
| Borislav Nikolic | W · UD | 1 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Mark Vologdin | L | 2 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Bogdan Grad | W · SUB R2 | 4 | $4,500 | $25,000 | $29,500 |
| Dennis Buzukja | L | 6 | $6,000 | - | $6,000 |
| Mateusz Rebecki | W · TKO R1 | 9 | $6,000 | $25,000 | $31,000 |
| Kyle Prepolec | L | 5 | $4,500 | - | $4,500 |
| Nina Milosevic | W · TKO R1 | 1 | $4,000 | $100,000 | $104,000 |
| Hailey Cowan | L | 4 | $4,500 | - | $4,500 |
| Jovan Leka | W · TKO R1 | 1 | $4,000 | $25,000 | $29,000 |
| Alexander Poppeck | L | 1 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Stephanie Luciano | W · SUB R1 | 4 | $4,500 | $25,000 | $29,500 |
| Marina Spasic | L | 1 | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
Read the spread for what it is. Jan Blachowicz, 23 UFC bouts and a former champion, walked out with a verified floor of $21,000 on a night he was knocked out inside a round; his real purse is many multiples of that, but the UFC keeps it private. Meanwhile the losers at the bottom of the card have a verified floor of $4,000, and for a debuting or short-tenure fighter that compliance check plus an undisclosed purse (historically in the low tens of thousands for new UFC contracts, when such numbers still surfaced) IS the payday. One first round finish and a bonus, like Nina Milosevic's, multiplies a night's verified floor by twenty-six.
How much did Uros Medic make in total?
The honest answer: $111,000 of it is verifiable, and the rest is not. What we can say from our own records:
- The $100,000 Performance of the Night bonus, confirmed by the promotion at the doubled post-UFC 324 rate, plus the $11,000 compliance tier for his 11 UFC bouts. (The $100,000 award supersedes the $25,000 finish incentive, so there is no stacking.)
- His fourth career Performance bonus, worth $300,000 in accumulated bonus money across his UFC run: $50,000 apiece at the old rate for UFC 259 in March 2021 and UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs Perez in April 2024, then $100,000 apiece at the doubled rate for UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs Hernandez in February and now Belgrade. Every one of them was a first round knockout. No active welterweight turns cage time into bonus checks at that rate.
- His contracted purse is undisclosed. When outlets publish "Medic made $X" totals this week without a commission sheet behind them, that is modeling, not reporting.
What about Jan Blachowicz?
The former light heavyweight champion had the roughest payday math of the night: a first round TKO loss to a late replacement means no win bonus and no performance money. For scale on what a Blachowicz payday looks like when numbers do surface, reported figures from his title years put his UFC 259 defense against Israel Adesanya at about $1.54 million all-in ($750,000 base, $750,000 win bonus, plus compliance pay), and his title win over Dominick Reyes at about $430,000, per EssentiallySports' compilation of previously reported purses. Those numbers are attributed reporting, not disclosures, and Saturday's purse is unknown either way.
Why don't we know the exact purses?
Because the disclosure pipeline that used to produce them is gone. For a decade, state athletic commissions published fight-by-fight payrolls and the "UFC salaries" article was a post-event staple. Nevada stopped releasing figures around 2018, most international cards (Belgrade included) run under regulators that never published at all, and what remains is bonuses, occasional California sheets, and estimates. We wrote up the full history, with over 1,000 re-digitized paychecks, in what a decade of disclosed UFC pay actually showed.
One number that needs no disclosure: four UFC bonus checks, four first round knockouts. With the checks now worth $100,000 a swing, Medic has turned round one into the most reliable side income in the welterweight division, and matchmakers notice the same pattern fans do. Whoever gets him next has been warned.