UFC Moicano vs Nolan payouts: how much did Nolan, Moicano and every fighter make?
UFC Moicano vs Nolan payouts and bonuses: four $100,000 Performance awards, $638,500 verified, and our estimate of every fighter's night, led by Erosa.
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- Mate Bersenadze
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- Nov 1, 2026
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- 9 min read
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- Fighter PayBonusesUFCUFC Fight Night 2026-10-31Tom NolanRenato MoicanoJulian Erosa
Tom Nolan knocked out Renato Moicano at 1:28 of the third round at Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday, and the finish put a $100,000 Performance of the Night award on top of a contract we estimate pays him about $78,000 to show and the same again to win. That makes his night worth roughly $256,000 by our estimate. It was not the biggest on the card. That belongs to Julian Erosa, who knocked out JeongYeong Lee on the prelims as an underdog and, by our estimate, took home about $266,000. Across all 12 bouts, the verified minimum payout for UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs Nolan comes to $638,500, and our estimate of what the 21 fighters we can price took home runs to about $1.88 million. Our estimates below follow the same rule as the live payout table for the card.
Who won the UFC Moicano vs Nolan bonuses?
The UFC handed out four awards, all of them Performance of the Night. There was no Fight of the Night.
- Performance of the Night: Tom Nolan ($100,000), a third-round knockout of Moicano in the main event.
- Performance of the Night: Julian Erosa ($100,000), a knockout of Lee at 1:31 of the first round.
- Performance of the Night: Joseph Kropschot ($100,000), a submission of Nick Klein at 1:25 of the second round, in his UFC debut.
- Performance of the Night: Lucia Szabová ($100,000), a knockout of Tainara Lisboa at 3:20 of the third round, also in her UFC debut.
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, so the four award winners get the award and nothing more.
Two more winners collected the $25,000: Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani (a doctor's stoppage of Farman Hasanov at 2:11 of the third) and Rodrigo Sezinando (a doctor's stoppage of Theodor Berggren at the end of the second). That is $50,000 in incentives on top of $400,000 in awards. Six of the 12 bouts ended inside the distance, and all six paid a finisher.
The other six went to the judges, and a decision pays no incentive however it arrives. Dakota Hope came in at +188 on the sportsbook consensus against Francis Marshall at -233 and won a split decision, the biggest upset of the night by price. It was worth exactly his $4,000 tenure tier in verified money.
UFC Moicano vs Nolan 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 columns of money 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. UFC bouts count Saturday's fight and leave out Contender Series appearances.
Main card
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate (night) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Nolan | won (KO/TKO, R3) | 7 | $6,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $106,000 | ~$256,000 |
| Renato Moicano | lost (KO/TKO, R3) | 21 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$144,000 |
| Jacobe Smith | won (unan. dec.) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$112,000 |
| Randy Brown | lost (unan. dec.) | 23 | $21,000 | none | $21,000 | ~$134,000 |
| Cody Durden | won (unan. dec.) | 18 | $16,000 | none | $16,000 | ~$160,000 |
| Ode Osbourne | lost (unan. dec.) | 13 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$74,000 |
| Luana Santos | won (unan. dec.) | 8 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$96,000 |
| Yana Santos | lost (unan. dec.) | 13 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | ~$62,000 |
| Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani | won (TKO, doctor's stoppage, R3) | 3 | $4,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,000 | ~$85,000 |
| Farman Hasanov | lost (TKO, doctor's stoppage, R3) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$17,000 |
Prelims
| Fighter | Result | UFC bouts | Compliance pay | Bonus / incentive | Verified minimum | Our estimate (night) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Hope | won (split dec.) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$34,000 |
| Francis Marshall | lost (split dec.) | 8 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$46,000 |
| Rodrigo Sezinando | won (TKO, doctor's stoppage, R2) | 2 | $4,000 | $25,000 (finish) | $29,000 | ~$59,000 |
| Theodor Berggren | lost (TKO, doctor's stoppage, R2) | 2 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$16,000 |
| Julian Erosa | won (KO/TKO, R1) | 19 | $16,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $116,000 | ~$266,000 |
| JeongYeong Lee | lost (KO/TKO, R1) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$33,000 |
| Zach Reese | won (unan. dec.) | 9 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$108,000 |
| Mickey Gall | lost (unan. dec.) | 14 | $11,000 | none | $11,000 | not yet priced |
| Joseph Kropschot | won (sub, R2) | 1 | $4,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $104,000 | not yet priced |
| Nick Klein | lost (sub, R2) | 3 | $4,000 | none | $4,000 | ~$16,000 |
| Piera Rodriguez | won (unan. dec.) | 8 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$100,000 |
| Talita Alencar | lost (unan. dec.) | 6 | $6,000 | none | $6,000 | ~$38,000 |
| Lucia Szabová | won (KO/TKO, R3) | 1 | $4,000 | $100,000 (PotN) | $104,000 | not yet priced |
| Tainara Lisboa | lost (KO/TKO, R3) | 5 | $4,500 | none | $4,500 | ~$28,000 |
"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. "Not yet priced" means we have no current estimate on file: Kropschot and Szabová were making their UFC debuts, we hold no current estimate for Mickey Gall, and our live payout table leaves all three out too.
Add up the bolded verified minimums and the card's floor is $638,500 across 24 fighters: $188,500 in compliance pay, $400,000 in awards and $50,000 in finish incentives. The bonus money alone was more than double the compliance pay for the whole card. Add up the estimate column instead and the 21 fighters we can price were worth about $1.88 million; folding their compliance pay back in, plus the $219,000 verified for the three we cannot price, puts the known plus estimated payroll near $2.27 million.
How much did Tom Nolan make in total?
Roughly $262,000, by our estimate: about $78,000 to show, the same again to win, the $100,000 Performance of the Night check and $6,000 at his seven-fight compliance tier. Only $106,000 of that is verified. His salary page carries the full breakdown of his estimated contract.
He did it as the slight underdog. Moicano was -122 on the sportsbook consensus, Nolan +101, and the contracts were further apart than the prices. We estimate Moicano's deal at about $144,000 to show, close to double Nolan's. Had the favorite won, his night would have been worth roughly $288,000 by our estimate, before any bonus. Instead the knockout flipped it: the man on the smaller contract left with about $112,000 more than the man on the bigger one.
Renato Moicano lost and still out-earned seven winners
Photo: Sexto Round / CC BY 3.0
Moicano walked in with 21 UFC fights behind him, enough for the top $21,000 compliance tier, and a show purse we estimate at about $144,000. A loss pays no win bonus, so that is his night by our estimate: about $144,000, or about $165,000 with the compliance pay. Of the ten winners on the card we can price, seven made less than that. Only $21,000 of his night is verified.
Randy Brown is the same story one fight down. His 23 UFC fights were the most on the card, and we estimate his show purse at about $134,000. He lost a unanimous decision to Jacobe Smith, who replaced Carlos Leal in a switch our card log recorded on October 23, and who went in as the -284 favorite anyway. Smith's winning night comes to about $112,000 by our estimate, show plus win bonus. Brown lost and made about $22,000 more.
The other late switch ran the other way. Hope replaced Gaston Bolanos opposite Marshall in the same October 23 update, won the split decision as the night's biggest underdog, and leaves with about $34,000 by our estimate. Marshall, eight UFC fights in, lost and still made about $46,000. On a card like this one the result moves money, but tenure moves more of it.
Julian Erosa, the prelim that outpaid the main event
Erosa was +140 on the sportsbook consensus against Lee at -169, walking into his 19th UFC fight off a first-round knockout loss to Lerryan Douglas in March. He needed 91 seconds. With an estimated $83,000 to show, the same to win and the $100,000 award, his night comes to about $266,000 by our estimate, $10,000 more than the main event winner and the biggest on the card by our estimate. His $116,000 verified is also the highest of anyone on Saturday, because his tenure tier ($16,000) sits well above Nolan's ($6,000).
Lee, five UFC fights in and on the $4,500 tier, was the favorite and leaves with about $33,000 by our estimate. The gap between the two corners of that fight, about $233,000, was wider than in any other fight where we can price both corners.
Cody Durden had the third biggest night we can price, without a bonus of any kind. He beat Ode Osbourne by unanimous decision in a fight the market priced close to even (-117 against -105), and with 18 UFC fights and an estimated $80,000 contract, show plus win comes to about $160,000.
Why don't we know the exact purses?
No purses from Saturday's card have been made public. The fights were in Nevada, where the athletic commission stopped publishing purses years ago, and the UFC does not 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 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
Saturday's award is Erosa's fourth post-fight bonus in the UFC: Performance of the Night for a submission in June 2020, Fight of the Night in a split-decision win in February 2022, Fight of the Night again in a decision loss to Melquizael Costa in May 2025, and now this. Priced at each night's rate, three at $50,000 and the last at $100,000, that is $250,000 in bonus money.
Nolan's is his second, after a first-round submission at UFC Perth in September 2025 earned Performance of the Night at the old $50,000 rate. That puts him at $150,000 in bonus money, and Saturday was his sixth straight UFC win since he lost his debut to Nikolas Motta in January 2024.
Then there are the debutants. Kropschot won his way in on the Contender Series in August; Szabová came over from OKTAGON, where she had headlined her last three cards, and went in Saturday as the biggest favorite on the board at -740. Each left with $104,000 verified, more than anyone on the card except Erosa and Nolan. Erosa needed 19 UFC fights to collect his second Performance of the Night. Half of Saturday's $100,000 checks went to people in their first one.