{"id":919678,"date":"2026-07-14T02:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/pfl-san-diego-salaries-main-event-fighter-made-10000-in-losing-effort\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:12:38","slug":"pfl-san-diego-salaries-main-event-fighter-made-10000-in-losing-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/pfl-san-diego-salaries-main-event-fighter-made-10000-in-losing-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL San Diego salaries: Main event fighter made $10,000 in losing effort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A.J. McKee and Liz Carmouche led all fighter salaries for the PFL San Diego event on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The salaries were provided to MMA Fighting by the California State Athletic Commission.<\/p>\n

At the top of the card, McKee made a guaranteed $100,000 for his latest fight with no-win bonus attached to his performance. McKee has been a stalwart on the PFL roster since the promotion bought Bellator, where he was a former champion.<\/p>\n

His opponent Salamat Isbulaev takes home a guaranteed $10,000 for showing up for his main event loss via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

In the co-main event, Liz Carmouche matches McKee\u2019s payday as she\u2019s earned $50,000 to show and pickedup another $50,000 as her win bonus with her victory. Meanwhile, ex-UFC fighter Viviane Araujo makes $20,000 in the losing effort.<\/p>\n

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Here are the full salaries for the PFL San Diego card on Saturday<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A.J. McKee: $100,000, no win bonus<\/p>\n

Salamat Isbulaev: $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Liz Carmouche: $50,000 to show, $50,000 to win – $100,000 – WIN<\/p>\n

Viviane Araujo: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $20,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Alexander Shabliy: $25,000 to show, $25,000 to win – $50,000 – WIN<\/p>\n

Alfie Davis: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $20,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Abraham Bably: $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win – $20,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Rob Wilkinson: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Khasan Magomedsharipov: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Joshua Weems: $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Ariane Da Silva: $13,000 to show, $13,000 to win – $13,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Jena Bishop: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Justin Wetzell: $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win – $10,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Sarvardzhon Hamidov: $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win – $40,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Shannon Clark: $3,000 to show, $3,000 to win – Made $6,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Ilara Joanne: $10,000 to show, $10,000 to win – Made $10,000 – LOST<\/p>\n

Cobey Fehr: $5,000 to show, $5,000 to win – Made $10,000 – WON<\/p>\n

Daniel Bzdigian: $5,000 to show, $5,000 to win – Made $5,000 – LOST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lloyd Coby
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A.J. McKee and Liz Carmouche led all fighter salaries for the PFL San Diego event on Saturday night. The salaries were provided to MMA Fighting by the California State Athletic Commission. At the top of the card, McKee made a guaranteed $100,000 for his latest fight with no-win bonus attached to his performance. McKee has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1699,35080],"tags":[13195,66011],"class_list":["post-919678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diego","category-salaries","tag-diego","tag-salaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}