Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the most popular UFC fighter today alongside Conor McGregor. Khabib’s stock has been on the rise since he defeated McGregory and since than has become a bona fide PPV star. Khabib’s net worth stands at around $30 million if we look at his past disclosed purse and PPV shares.
- Khabib earned around $16.5 million in 2019 making him the highest earning Russian sports athlete.
- Khabib now earns slice of every PPV he headlines that takes his earnings from a single fight to around $6 to $8 million.
- Khabib official disclosed fight purse was $2 million from McGregor fight but his PPV earnings made him over $6 million from that fight back in 2018.
- Since 2018 Khabib has headlined several UFC PPV events and made his career best purse of $3 million from UFC 242 (Dustin Poirier) plus of course PPV share
We take a look at yearly earnings and fight by fight purse of Khabib over the last few years.
| FIGHT | EARNINGS |
|---|---|
| UFC 242 (Poirier) | $6,090,000 + ($6m guaranteed + $40,000 fight week incentive + $50,000 performance of the night bonus) |
| UFC 229 – (McGregor) | $1,540,000 ($2,000,000 guaranteed + $40k bonus but $500,000 fine for post fight brawl) |
| UFC 223 - (Iaquinta) | $530,000 ($500,000 Guaranteed + $30K bonus) |
| UFC 219 - (Barboza) | $215,000 ($80,000 guranteed + $80,000 win bonus + $50k performance of the night bonus + $5,000 Reebok sponsorship) |
| UFC 205 – (Johnson) | $57,000 ($26,000 Guranteed + $26,000 win bonus +$5,000 Reebok deal) |
| UFC on Fox: Teixeira vs Evans | $53,000 ($24k guaranteed + $24k win bonus + $5,000 Reebok deal) |
| UFC on Fox: Werdum vs Browne | $64,000 |
| UFC 165 (Healy) | $46,000 |
| UFC 160 - (Trujillo) | $25,200 |
| UFC 148 - (Tibau) | $20,000 |