Whereas champions Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall have their sights on their upcoming opponents, a few different heavyweights will butt heads in Saudi Arabia with an opportunity to inch nearer to a title shot. The Russian duo of Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov will co-main occasion UFC on ABC 6, which guarantees to be an thrilling matchup for the followers in Riyadh this weekend.
Each Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov have been knocking on the door for a title shot for the time being. Sadly for the previous, he squandered his likelihood to win the interim title again at UFC 295 and is again within the hunt once more. However, Volkov’s been gathering just a few consecutive wins and has now landed in a spot with a former title challenger. However what are the monetary upsides to this combat? Effectively, we don’t know for positive, however what we will do is make a tough estimation. Therefore, let’s begin with our first Russian star, Pavlovich.
What’s Sergei Pavlovich’s payout at UFC Combat Evening: Saudi Arabia?
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Within the latter half of 2024, Sergei Pavlovich will full six years of affiliation with the UFC. In his present run, he’s competed in a complete of eight fights, and identical to Conor McGregor and Ilia Topuria, he bought the chance to go for a UFC title, though he couldn’t win it.
However, Pavlovich has his personal accomplishments contained in the Octagon with a 100% end price, and people performances earned him a base wage of $500,000, which he earned in his combat in opposition to Tom Aspinall at UFC 295, with one other $300,000 from PPV buys and a complete of $647,000.
Earlier than that, Sergei Pavlovich had a crack at Curtis Blaydes, whom he knocked out in simply over three minutes within the first spherical, and guess what? That knockout victory helped him safe a base wage of $350,000 and a complete of $465,000. Therefore, having checked out his greatest payouts, we will assume that the 32-year-old might make round $450,000 to $650,000 this weekend in Saudi Arabia. Now, it’s time to peek at Alexander Volkov’s particulars. Let’s test it out.
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Alexander Volkov’s wage for his subsequent UFC combat
In contrast to his fellow Russian KO artist, Alexander Volkov has been with the UFC for fairly a while now, two years greater than Sergei Pavlovich, to be precise, and has amassed a file of 11-4 within the promotion. Nevertheless, he’s by no means been capable of take house greater than Sergei Pavlovich has in a single combat till not too long ago. Essentially the most that Alexander Volkov ever constructed from one combat was round $620,000, together with bonuses, for dominating Tai Tuivasa at UFC 293. That’s the largest payday he’s ever acquired, a minimum of as per experiences.
Alexander Volkov’s second greatest payout was $295,000, which he bagged when he fought present interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. The paycheck additionally included sponsorship charges, and after this one, the third greatest paycheck was when the 35-year-old fought Alistair Overeem, and for that combat, he took house a complete of $255,000. So it could be robust to make an estimation right here as to what he’ll earn for the Sergei Pavlovich combat. However why? As a result of his greatest paycheck was a big bounce and if we needed to make an estimation, Volkov might take house round $300,000 to $600,000 for his combat this weekend.
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What do you make of those estimations? Do you’ve gotten your personal estimations concerning the payout of Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov in Riyadh? Tell us within the feedback down under.