With Bellator 263 taking place in California, we got a glimpse of their fighter purses.
New featherweight champion A.J. McKee was assured of $150,000 in base money, but the goal was to beat Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire and get that lucrative $1 million check for winning the featherweight grand prix. Patricio’s official purse was $250,000 but no win bonus for him after getting choked out inside of two minutes in the main event.
Those were the only two fighters with six-figure purses on the entire card. Emmanuel Sanchez would’ve had $122,000 had he beaten Mads Burnell, but his decision loss limited him to just the $61,000.