UFC Fight Night Overeem vs Harris purses: Expected salaries for UFC on ESPN 9 headliners
UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Harris takes place in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The UFC is back in action again this weekend for their third show since the global coronavirus lockdown. The MMA leader's latest offering once again comes from the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, the venue at which they held their UFC 249 and UFC Fight Night 175 cards.
Topping the bill of the promotion's ninth regular ESPN event is a heavyweight showdown between former title challenger Alistair Overeem and rising prospect Walt Harris.
The contest is a pivotal one for both men's hopes of positioning themselves for a crack at the heavyweight title, which is currently in the possession of Stipe Miocic.
The current lack of sport across the world will see a huge amount of eyes on UFC on ESPN 9's main eventers, who are already household names amongst MMA fans.
But just how much are they getting paid for their clash?
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The Florida Boxing Commission has yet to release the pair's official guaranteed purses for Sunday morning's fight.
But one can take an educated guess as how much they'll earn when looking at their most recent paydays.
Overeem, 40, is one of the UFC's highest-paid fighters outside of the promotion's big three. His purses over the last four years have been nothing short of staggering in comparison to what the average fighter on the UFC roster takes home.
For his last three fights, in which he took on Sergei Pavlovich, Alexei Oleinik and Jairzinho Rozenstruik respectively, the Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix winner's guaranteed purse has been £703,000 (£850,000).
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So given the fact he's not signed a new deal, Overeem's purse for his clash with Harris is expected to be the same as his last.
Harris' guaranteed purse for his clash with 'The Reem' is expected to be significantly less than six figures
'The Big Ticket' has received £29,800, £29,800 and £31,400 purses for his last three fights.
His purse, however, could be much larger than that, given the fact he hasn't fought since his late step-daughter went missing last year.
So given the fact he's not signed a new deal, Overeem's purse for his clash with Harris is expected to be the same as his last.
Harris' guaranteed purse for his clash with 'The Reem' is expected to be significantly less than six figures
'The Big Ticket' has received £29,800, £29,800 and £31,400 purses for his last three fights.
His purse, however, could be much larger than that, given the fact he hasn't fought since his late step-daughter went missing last year.
UFC on ESPN 9 Fight Card
Alistair Overeem vs Walt Harris - heavyweight bout
Claudia Gadelha vs Angela Hill - women's strawweight bout
Dan Ige vs Edson Barboza - men's featherweight bout
Eryk Anders vs Krzysztof Jotko - middleweight bout
Song Yadong vs Marlon Vera - men's featherweight bout
Prelims
Matt Brown vs Miguel Baeza - welterweight bout
Anthony Hernandez vs Kevin Holland - middleweight bout
Cortney Casey vs Mara Romero Borella - women's flyweight bout
Darren Elkins vs Nate Landwehr - men's featherweight bout
Rodrigo Nascimento vs Don’Tale Mayes - heavyweight bout