UFC 280 payouts: Salaries and bonuses earned by fighters who competed on the card

According to a report by TOTAL, the UFC shelled out upwards of $5 million in fighter pay for UFC 280. Both main event fighters have reportedly cleared the million mark in individual payouts.

Newly crowned lightweight champion Islam Makhachev racked up $1.03 million through his guaranteed pay, winning bonus, pay-per-view shares, and performance bonus.

The other half of the main event, Charles Oliveira, pulled in an even more impressive figure of $1.29 million through his base pay of $750k, $500k from pay-per-view, and $32k from other promotional bonuses.

For the co-main event, T.J. Dillashaw raked in $120k while bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling was paid $670k, which includes his pay-per-view shares and winning bonus.

For the highly anticipated bantamweight clash between former champion Petr Yan and Sean O'Malley, the Russian earned $270k, while 'Sugar' took home a significantly higher fight purse of $470k.

For another lightweight matchup on the main card, No.6-ranked contender Beneil Dariush took home $310k, while his opponent Mateusz Gamrot raked in $80k.

For the women's flyweight matchup on the UFC 280 main card, surging contender Manon Fiorot pulled in $73.4k, while former title challenger Katlyn Chookagian took home $77.6k.

Other payouts for UFC 280 are given below:

Belal Muhammad - $360k

Sean Brady - $50k

Caio Borralho - $24k

Makhmud Muradov - $33k

Nikita Krylov - $125k

Volkan Oezdemir - $85k

Abubakar Nurmagomedov - $45k

Gadzhi Omargadzhiev - $14k

Armen Petrosyan - $24k

A.J. Dobson - $14k

Muhammad Mokaev - $37k

Malcolm Gordon - $27k

Karol Rosa - $65k

Lina Länsberg - $35k

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Break-out fights in the UFC 280 main card

As his mentor and friend Khabib Nurmagomedov predicted, sambo maestro Islam Makhachev made light work of former champion Charles Oliveira to claim the vacant lightweight championship in the main event of UFC 280. Interestingly, the Dagestani secured a second-round submission over Oliveira, who many consider to be one of the best jiu-jitsu practitioners in MMA history.

Following the win, Makhachev was also upgraded to a five-star fighter in the EA Sports UFC 4 video game.

In the co-main event, bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling secured a second-round TKO victory over former two-time bantamweight titleholder T.J. Dillashaw to make his second successful title defense.

Dillashaw was reportedly suffering from a shoulder injury coming into the fight. To make matters worse, his shoulder dislocated in the very first round. Even though his corner popped the shoulder back into place in between rounds, he was finished by the champion in round two.

In yet another highly anticipated matchup, No.11-ranked bantamweight contender Sean O'Malley secured a hard-fought split-decision victory over former champion Petr Yan. The win caused a lot of controversy as many fighters, including former UFC two-division champion Henry Cejudo, opined that Yan was robbed of a win in the fight.

The Yan-O'Malley fight was also awarded the Fight of the Night.