UFC Fight Night 284 Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay: Darren Elkins gets $21k in final fight

LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday's UFC Fight Night 284 event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $165,500.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.

UFC Fight Night 284 took place at Meta APEX. The entire card streamed on Paramount+ .

The full UFC Fight Night 284 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:

Quillan Salkilld: $6,000 def. Mateusz Gamrot: $11,000

Diego Ferreira: $16,000 def. Billy Quarantillo: $11,000

Yadier del Valle: $4,500 def. Darren Elkins: $21,000

Alexia Thainara: $4,500 def. Amanda Lemos: $16,000

Ty Miller: $4,000 def. Billy Ray Goff: $4,500

Steven Asplund: $4,000 def. Guilherme Pat: $4,000

Diyar Nurgozhay: $4,500 def. Bruno Lopes: $4,500

Jose Montanha: $4,000 def. Louie Sutherland: $4,500

Manoel Sousa: $4,000 def. Richie Miranda: $4,000

Miles Johns: $11,000 def. Gianni Vazquez: $4,000

Juliana Miller: $6,000 def. Ravena Olivera: $4,500

Carol Foro: $4,000 def. Gigi Canuto: $4,000

Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program's payout tiers , which appropriate the money generated by Venum's multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2841 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $4,000 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,500; 6-10 bouts get $6,000; 11-15 bouts earn $11,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $16,000; and 21 bouts and more get $21,000. Additionally, champions earn $42,000 while title challengers get $32,000.

In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.

Full 2026 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:

"UFC Fight Night 284: Gamrot vs. Salkilld" – $165,500

"UFC Fight Night 283: Medic vs. Rodriguez" – $192,000

"UFC Fight Night 282: Ankalaev vs. Guskov" – $160,500

"UFC Fight Night 281: Du Plessis vs. Usman" – $151,500

"UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2" – $275,000

"UFC Fight Night 280: Fiziev vs. Torres" – $162,000

"UFC Fight Night 279: Kape vs. Horiguchi 2" – $168,000

"UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje" – $241,500

"UFC Fight Night 278: Muhammad vs. Bonfim" – $194,000

"UFC Fight Night 277: Song vs. Figueiredo" – $215,000

"UFC Fight Night 276: Allen vs. Costa" – $167,000

"UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland" – $371,000

"UFC Fight Night 275: Della Maddalena vs. Prates" – $188,500

"UFC Fight Night 274: Sterling vs. Zalal" – $239,500

"UFC Fight Night 273: Burns vs. Malott" – $176,500

"UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg" – $312,000

"UFC Fight Night 272: Moicano vs. Duncan" – $151,500

"UFC Fight Night 271: Adesanya vs. Pyfer" – $239,000

"UFC Fight Night 270: Evloev vs. Murphy" – $137,000

"UFC Fight Night 269: Emmett vs. Vallejos" – $238,500

"UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2" – $261,000

"UFC Fight Night 268: Moreno vs. Kavanagh" – $175,000

"UFC Fight Night 267: Strickland vs. Hernandez" – $207,500

"UFC Fight Night 266: Bautista vs. Oliveira" – $206,500

"UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2" – $234,000

"UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett" – $269,500

Year-to-date total: $5,733,000

2025 total: $8,441,500

2024 total: $8,280,500

2023 total: $8,131,000

2022 total: $8,351,500

2021 total: $6,167,500

Program-to-date total: $44,851,000

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