UFC Seattle salaries: Song Yadong, Rob Font earn biggest paydays on entire card
03/06/2025 06:57 PM
Song Yadong scored the biggest win of his career with a technical decision over former two-division champion Henry Cejudo at UFC Seattle, and he also went home with the biggest payday of anybody competing on the card.
The Washington State Department of Licensing released the salaries from the UFC Seattle card to MMA Fighting via a public records request. Song and bantamweight veteran Rob Font earned the highest paydays of anyone competing at the event.
For his win in the main event, Song took home $320,000, $160,000 for his show money, and another $160,000 for winning. He earned the victory after Cejudo was unable to continue following an eye poke that left his vision impaired. Referee Jason Herzog ultimately deemed the foul was accidental and refrained from deducting any points.
Because the fight made it to the end of the third round in a five-round contest, the scorecards were tallied with Song winning a technical decision.
As for Cejudo, he went home with $150,000 but missed out on the extra $150,000 he would have earned with a victory.
The other biggest payday at UFC Seattle was for Font, who also took home $320,000 for his split decision win over Jean Matsumoto on the main card, earning $160,000 to show and another $160,000 to win.
Here are the full paydays for UFC Seattle
Song Yadong: $320,000 — $160,000 to show, $160,000 to win
Henry Cejudo: $150,000
Anthony Hernandez: $144,000 — $72,000 to show, $72,000 to win
Brendan Allen: $210,000
Rob Font: $320,000 — $160,000 to show, $160,000 to win
Jean Matsumoto: $26,000
Jean Silva: $90,000 — $45,000 to show, $45,000 to win
Melsik Baghdasaryan: $35,000
Alonzo Menifield: $240,000 — $120,000 to show, $120,000 to win
Julius Walker: $12,000
Ion Cutelaba: $190,000 — $95,000 to show, $95,000 to win
Ibo Aslan: $35,000
Melquizael Costa: $48,000 — $24,000 to show, $24,000 to win
Andre Fili: $110,000
Mansur Abdul-Malik: $24,000 — $12,000 to show, $12,000 to win
Nick Klein: $10,000
Ricky Simon: $160,000 — $80,000 to show, $80,000 to win
Javid Basharat: $30,000
Austin Vanderford: $30,000 — $15,000 to show, $15,000 to win
Nikolay Veretennikov: $12,000
Nursulton Ruziboev: $74,000 — $37,000 to show, $37,000 to win
Eric McConico: $12,000
Modestas Bukauskas: $96,000 — $48,000 to show, $48,000 to win
Raffael Cerqueira: $10,000
