UFC Allen vs Duncan payouts: how much did Allen, Fili and every fighter make?
UFC Allen vs Duncan payouts and bonuses: four $100,000 Performance awards, $719,500 verified, and our estimate of every fighter's night, led by Allen.
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- Mate Bersenadze
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- Oct 11, 2026
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- 10 min read
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- Fighter PayBonusesUFCUFC Fight Night 2026-10-11Brendan AllenAndre Fili
Brendan Allen submitted Christian Leroy Duncan 2:46 into the fifth round at the Meta Apex on Saturday, and the finish paid him a $100,000 Performance of the Night check on top of his contract. By our estimate that made his night worth about $434,000, the biggest on the card. The biggest number anyone can actually verify belongs to someone else: Andre Fili, whose 27 UFC fights put him in the top compliance bracket, banked at least $121,000 to Allen's $116,000. Across all 12 bouts, the verified minimum payout for UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan comes to $719,500, and our estimate of what the 24 fighters took home runs to about $2.36 million.
Who won the UFC Allen vs Duncan bonuses?
There was no Fight of the Night. The UFC handed out four Performance of the Night awards instead, all to winners who finished their fights:
- Performance of the Night: Brendan Allen ($100,000), a fifth-round submission of Duncan in the main event.
- Performance of the Night: Andre Fili ($100,000), a knockout of Kai Kamaka III 22 seconds into the second round.
- Performance of the Night: Otari Tanzilovi ($100,000), a knockout of Malcolm Wellmaker at 2:39 of the second round, his first UFC win.
- Performance of the Night: Alice Pereira ($100,000), a stoppage of Daria Zhelezniakova at the end of the first round.
Under the bonus structure the UFC has run since UFC 324 (January 24, 2026), each award pays $100,000, and any fighter who wins by knockout or submission without collecting one banks a separate $25,000 finish incentive instead. The two do not stack, which is why the four award winners get the award and nothing more.
Five more winners collected the $25,000: Julius Walker (second-round knockout of Gerald Meerschaert), Francisco Prado (first round, Ismael Bonfim), Niko Price (first round, Leon Shahbazyan), Brendson Ribeiro (first-round submission of Felipe Franco) and Allen Frye Jr. (first round, RJ Harris). That is $125,000 in incentives on top of $400,000 in awards. Nine of the 12 bouts ended inside the distance, and every one of the nine paid a finisher.
The other three went to the cards. Jai Herbert beat Matheus Camilo and Loopy Godinez beat Ketlen Souza, both by unanimous decision, and Melissa Gatto and Ernesta Kareckaite fought to a majority draw: two judges had it 28-28, the third had a winner. A decision win carries no incentive, and a draw carries no win bonus for anyone.
UFC Allen vs Duncan payouts: what every fighter made
The tables combine 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, and our own estimate of what each fighter's night was worth, built from 18 years of disclosed UFC purses. The first two add up to a verified floor. The last column is estimated show money, plus an equal win bonus for winners, plus the bonus dollars already listed, typically within about ±30% by our own error checks. It is the same figure our live payout table prints for this card. UFC bouts count Saturday's fight and leave out Contender Series appearances, which do not move a fighter up the compliance ladder.
Main card
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate (night) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Allen | won (sub, R5) | 20 | $16,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $116,000 | ~$434,000 |
| Christian Leroy Duncan | lost (sub, R5) | 11 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$125,000 |
| Jai Herbert | won (unan. dec.) | 11 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$136,000 |
| Matheus Camilo | lost (unan. dec.) | 4 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$30,000 |
| Loopy Godinez | won (unan. dec.) | 16 | $16,000 | none | $16,000 | ~$164,000 |
| Ketlen Souza | lost (unan. dec.) | 8 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$43,000 |
| Andre Fili | won (KO/TKO, R2) | 27 | $21,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $121,000 | ~$280,000 |
| Kai Kamaka III | lost (KO/TKO, R2) | 7 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$34,000 |
| Otari Tanzilovi | won (KO/TKO, R2) | 2 | $4,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $104,000 | ~$134,000 |
| Malcolm Wellmaker | lost (KO/TKO, R2) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$41,000 |
Prelims
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate (night) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Walker | won (KO/TKO, R2) | 5 | $4,500 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,500 | ~$83,000 |
| Gerald Meerschaert | lost (KO/TKO, R2) | 27 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$91,000 |
| Francisco Prado | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 7 | $6,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $31,000 | ~$85,000 |
| Ismael Bonfim | lost (KO/TKO, R1) | 7 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$40,000 |
| Niko Price | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 20 | $16,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $41,000 | ~$183,000 |
| Leon Shahbazyan | lost (KO/TKO, R1) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$18,000 |
| Brendson Ribeiro | won (sub, R1) | 9 | $6,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $31,000 | ~$105,000 |
| Felipe Franco | lost (sub, R1) | 3 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$20,000 |
| Allen Frye Jr. | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 2 | $4,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,000 | ~$63,000 |
| RJ Harris | lost (KO/TKO, R1) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$17,000 |
| Alice Pereira | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 3 | $4,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $104,000 | ~$146,000 |
| Daria Zhelezniakova | lost (KO/TKO, R1) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$25,000 |
| Melissa Gatto | draw (maj.) | 7 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$34,000 |
| Ernesta Kareckaite | draw (maj.) | 4 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$31,000 |
"Our estimate (night)" is the fighter's estimated show money plus, for winners, an estimated win bonus of the same size, plus the bonus dollars already shown in the bonus column. The only verified money it leaves out is compliance pay, the other half of the "Verified minimum" column. For once every fighter on the card has a recent UFC contract to price from, so there are no blank rows here or on our live payout table.
Add up the bolded verified minimums and the card's floor is $719,500 across 24 fighters: $194,500 in compliance pay, $400,000 in awards and $125,000 in finish incentives. Add up the estimate column instead and the card was worth about $2.36 million to the fighters, and folding everyone's compliance pay back in puts the known plus estimated payroll near $2.56 million. Nobody on the card was making a UFC debut, and all 12 bouts on the card at the end of September went ahead.
How much did Brendan Allen make in total?
Roughly $450,000, by our estimate: about $167,000 in show money, the same again for the win, the $100,000 Performance of the Night check and $16,000 in compliance pay. Only $116,000 of that is verified. The $434,000 night total is the number his salary page and our payout table both print for him, and it is the biggest on the card by $154,000. It is not his biggest night by our count, though: we put his main event rematch with Chris Curtis at about $494,000. Treat all of it as a lower bound, since disclosed purses never showed the side terms a headliner can negotiate, and our estimates tend to undercount them.
Duncan took the fight to the fifth round and leaves with about $125,000 by our estimate, $11,000 of it verified. The $309,000 gap between the two corners is mostly the money that only exists for the winner: $167,000 of estimated win bonus and the $100,000 award. Saturday was Allen's 20th UFC fight, which keeps him in the $16,000 compliance bracket for exactly one more night. His next walk is his 21st, and that one pays $21,000 before he throws a punch.
Andre Fili and the top of the tenure table
Fili has fought 27 times in the UFC, more than anyone else on this card except Meerschaert, who has the same 27. That puts both men in the $21,000 compliance bracket, the top of the ladder, and it is why the biggest verified number of the night went to a featherweight in the middle of the main card rather than to the headliner. Fili's $121,000 is $21,000 in tenure pay plus the $100,000 award for needing 22 seconds of the second round. By our estimate his night was worth about $280,000, second only to Allen's.
It is his second bonus in a row. In June he lost to Vinicius Oliveira in a fight that won Fight of the Night, and the $100,000 from that loss plus the $100,000 from this win means $200,000 in bonus money since the start of the summer. Over his whole run, Fili now has five post-fight bonuses: Performance awards in 2015 and 2019, Fight of the Night in 2024 and June, and Saturday. At each night's rate that is $350,000, and he is 14-13 in the UFC by our records, the kind of record the tenure ladder rewards and the bonus system usually does not.
The same $21,000 bracket shows the other side of tenure pay. Meerschaert lost his sixth straight UFC fight, a second-round knockout by Walker, and still left with $21,000 verified, nearly double the $11,000 Duncan banked for five rounds in the main event. Walker, who beat him, has five UFC fights and a $4,500 compliance tier; it took the $25,000 finish incentive to put his verified night ($29,500) above the man he knocked out.
Two $100,000 checks on $4,000 tiers
Pereira and Tanzilovi sit at the bottom of the compliance ladder, $4,000 each, and both left with a verified $104,000. The award is 25 times their tenure pay. For Pereira, it is not a one-off: Saturday was her third UFC fight, and her second straight Performance of the Night after the stoppage of Hailey Cowan in April. That is $200,000 in bonus money from two fights, all of it at the new rate. By our estimate her night was worth about $146,000, and more than two-thirds of that is the award.
Tanzilovi's first UFC win came against a fighter the sportsbook consensus had at -209, with Tanzilovi at +173. He has two UFC fights once his Contender Series appearance is left out, so his estimated contract is among the smallest on the card, about $17,000 to show. The $100,000 check turned that into an estimated night of about $134,000, nearly eight times his show money. Few lines on the table show the 2026 bonus structure as starkly: by our estimate, the award is now worth more than most fighters on this card are paid to show and win combined.
Three losing streaks, $75,000 in incentives
Price, Prado and Ribeiro walked into the Meta Apex with the same problem. Each had lost his last four UFC fights. Each won in the first round, and each collected the $25,000 finish incentive for it, $75,000 between them. Price's knockout of Shahbazyan came 1:58 in, and at 20 UFC fights his $16,000 tier puts his verified night at $41,000; our estimate of about $183,000 is the third-biggest on the card. It is his first win inside the distance since October 2019, the last of four Performance of the Night awards he collected between 2017 and 2019, $200,000 at the old $50,000 rate.
Prado stopped Bonfim at 4:23 of the first round for his first UFC win since July 2023, $31,000 verified and about $85,000 by our estimate. Ribeiro had the longest odds of the three: the consensus line had him at +306 against Franco, and he submitted him in 1:49. His $31,000 verified and roughly $105,000 estimated came one fight after a three-round loss in July. Frye, the fifth incentive winner, was a +287 underdog against Harris and got his first UFC win out of it.
Why don't we know the exact purses?
Nevada, where this card was held, has not published UFC purses in years. What we can verify is compliance pay (a published minimum tied to tenure) and official bonuses; what we can estimate is show money and the win bonus that usually matches it, built from years of disclosed purses in states that still published them. 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
Allen's submission is his sixth post-fight bonus in the UFC: Performance awards in October 2022, February 2023, November 2023 and Saturday, Fight of the Night in July 2025 and June 2026. At each night's rate that is $400,000, half of it from his last two fights.
Malcolm Wellmaker has been in four straight bonus fights, and the ledger has turned on him. The first two, in April and June 2025, were his own first-round knockouts, two Performance of the Night awards worth $100,000 at the old $50,000 rate. The last two, a submission loss to Juan Díaz in May and Saturday's knockout, were Performance awards for the man across from him, worth $200,000 at the new rate. Three straight losses, a $4,500 compliance tier, and his opponents have now made twice as much in bonus money beating him as he made beating anyone.