Vitor Belfort may have exited the cage battered and bloody last night, but at least he left it rich – he was the top earner at UFC 198.
Before we go any further, we should note that most international fighter commissions don’t release fighter pay info, so none of the following salary data for the event is official. However, you can get a fairly accurate picture of a fighter’s pay based on official purse info released from past fights. So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 24 fighters that traded blows at the event.