Amanda Nunes Net Worth 2026: The $500K Purses, Bonuses and the Harrison Fight

Start at UFC 200 on July 9, 2016. Nunes choked out Miesha Tate in the first round to win the bantamweight title and was paid $100,000 with no win bonus listed, per the Nevada commission figures Sherdog published. Tate made $500,000 to lose. Brock Lesnar made $2.5 million on the same card. That gap is the story of her early career.

Five months later at UFC 207 on December 30, 2016, she stopped Ronda Rousey in 48 seconds. Nevada listed Nunes at $200,000 including a $100,000 win bonus. Rousey, on a flat purse, took $3 million. Nunes had just beaten the biggest star in the sport and earned one fifteenth of what the loser did.

The checks grew with the second belt. At UFC 232 on December 29, 2018, in Inglewood, she knocked out Cris Cyborg in 51 seconds to become a two-division champion, and the California commission listed her at $350,000 flat. Cyborg got $500,000. At UFC 239 on July 6, 2019, she head-kicked Holly Holm in the first round, and Nevada disclosed $300,000 to show plus a $200,000 win bonus, $500,000 total, the top of the card. At UFC 245 on December 14, 2019, CBS Sports reported a $350,000 guarantee plus $100,000 for a successful defense against Germaine de Randamie, which she got. At UFC 250 on June 6, 2020, Nevada listed $500,000 including a $150,000 win bonus for beating Felicia Spencer. Felicia got $125,000.

Add those disclosed and reported title-fight checks and you are at roughly $2.1 million before anything after 2020.

Nunes has five Performance of the Night bonuses, which is $250,000 at the standard $50,000 rate. The first came for finishing Sara McMann on August 8, 2015. Then the Tate submission at UFC 200, the Rousey stoppage at UFC 207 (Sherdog confirmed the $50,000 came on top of the $200,000 purse), the Cyborg knockout at UFC 232 and the Holm head kick at UFC 239.

She also collected the Crypto.com Fan Bonus of the Night at UFC 277 on July 30, 2022, the night she took the bantamweight title back from Julianna Pena by unanimous decision in Dallas. First place paid $30,000 in bitcoin.

The disclosed numbers understate her because they stop at the guarantee. Nunes headlined or co-headlined a long run of pay-per-views as champion: UFC 207, UFC 215, UFC 224, UFC 232, UFC 239, UFC 245, UFC 250, UFC 259, UFC 269, UFC 277 and UFC 289. Champions on PPV cards have historically received a cut of buys above a threshold, and none of those cuts are public.

The Rousey night is the clearest example of the gap between guarantee and reality. Rousey's $3 million flat was the headline, but UFC 207 was one of the best-selling cards of 2016, and Nunes, as the champion who won, was positioned for points. We cannot put a number on it. What we can say is that from 2016 to 2023, Nunes went 12-1 in UFC title fights, won the bantamweight belt twice and the featherweight belt once, and defended the two belts a combined six times. That is a career's worth of PPV main events.

In January 2022, after the shock loss to Pena at UFC 269, Nunes left American Top Team after seven years to run her own camp. She told ESPN, as LowKick MMA reported in February 2022: "I didn't say I'm gonna open a public gym. I wanna open a private space." Her wife, former UFC strawweight Nina Nunes, stayed at ATT. The couple had their first child in 2020. A private facility is a cost, not a revenue line, but it is also an asset she owns.

Nunes retired in the cage at UFC 289 on June 10, 2023, after beating Irene Aldana by unanimous decision in Vancouver, walking away as the reigning two-division champion. She was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame's modern wing in June 2025 during International Fight Week in Las Vegas, and she became an American citizen the same year. There are no public sponsorship figures for Nunes, and no major brand campaign has been announced, which is one reason our range is tighter than a fighter with a Chinese beauty deal or an energy-drink contract.

On June 5, 2025, Nunes said she was ending her retirement to fight the winner of Kayla Harrison versus Julianna Pena. Two days later at UFC 316, Harrison submitted Pena with a second-round kimura, called Nunes into the cage, and the two former American Top Team training partners stood nose to nose. "We knew this was going to happen," Nunes told her.

The fight was booked for UFC 324 in January 2026, then pushed when Harrison had surgery on herniated discs in her neck. It is now set for November 14, 2026, at Madison Square Garden as the co-main event of UFC 334, under Ciryl Gane versus Josh Hokit. Forbes reported that BetOnline opened Harrison at -300 and Nunes at +247, and that the line had moved to Harrison -180 and Nunes +153 by late September.

New York does not disclose purses, so the check will stay private. What Nunes has said is that she is not planning a one-and-done. "You've got to defend the belt," she told the Deep Waters podcast in October 2026. "And then we're going to see." She also said, "I would have come back anyways." At 38, every title fight she adds is another seven-figure night counting points.

Here is the math. Roughly $2.1 million in disclosed and reported title-fight pay through UFC 250. Five title fights after Nevada went dark (UFC 259, UFC 269, UFC 277, UFC 289 and now UFC 334), each almost certainly at or above the $500,000 UFC 250 rate, which is another $2.5 million-plus in guarantees. $280,000 in bonuses. PPV points on 11 pay-per-view title fights. Outfitting pay from Reebok and Venum across 24 UFC fights. Subtract taxes, management, a decade of camps and the cost of running her own facility.

Celebrity Net Worth lists her at $4 million. That is a third-party estimate, and it does not seem to account for the post-2020 title fights or the comeback. Our estimate for 2026: $6 million to $10 million, with a win over Harrison and the defenses she is promising pushing it toward the top of that range. She is 23-5 as a pro, the greatest women's fighter the sport has produced, and she was paid like one only late in the run.