Jack Della Maddalena Net Worth 2026: Purses, Bonuses and the Title Run

The only purse of Della Maddalena's UFC career that a commission has made public is his first one. At UFC 270 in January 2022 in Anaheim, the California State Athletic Commission reported he earned $20,000 for his first-round TKO of Pete Rodriguez: $10,000 to show and $10,000 to win. Rodriguez made $12,000.

After that the trail goes cold, and it is not Della Maddalena's fault. Florida stopped releasing UFC purses after UFC 261 in April 2021, when the UFC successfully argued the figures were a trade secret, so his UFC 299 knockout of Gilbert Burns in Miami has no public number. Nevada no longer publishes fighter pay, which covers his three Las Vegas wins over Danny Roberts, Bassil Hafez and Kevin Holland. Singapore, Perth, Montreal and New York did not disclose either.

Any site listing a figure for those fights is guessing. Sportskeeda projected $350,000 to $450,000 for UFC 315 and said plainly that no official figure existed. BetMGM estimated a total payout of $1,992,000 for UFC 322 with no breakdown. Treat both as estimates, because that is what they are.

This is the cleanest money on his ledger. Della Maddalena has collected six post-fight bonuses, each worth $50,000, for a total of $300,000 before tax.

Four were Performance of the Night awards: the Ramazan Emeev TKO at UFC 275 in Singapore in June 2022, the Danny Roberts stoppage in Las Vegas in November 2022, the Randy Brown rear-naked choke at UFC 284 in Perth in February 2023, and the Gilbert Burns knockout at UFC 299 in March 2024. Two were Fight of the Night: the split decision over Hafez in July 2023, and the five-round war with Belal Muhammad at UFC 315 in May 2025.

He did not earn a bonus at UFC 322 against Makhachev, and at UFC Perth in May 2026 the Performance of the Night check went to Prates, the man who stopped him.

Della Maddalena beat Muhammad by unanimous decision at UFC 315 on May 10, 2025, becoming the first Australian to hold the UFC welterweight title. Six months later, on November 15, 2025, Makhachev took the belt off him by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden, with 50-45 scores reported and Makhachev becoming the promotion's 11th two-division champion.

Neither purse is public, but one line item is. The UFC's Promotional Guidelines Compliance program, the outfitting money paid for wearing Venum, uses flat tiers: $4,000 for fighters with one to three bouts, up to $21,000 for 21 or more, with title challengers paid $32,000 and champions $42,000. MMA Junkie reported Della Maddalena received $6,000 at UFC 299 while Burns got $21,000. Under that table he collected $32,000 as the challenger in Montreal and $42,000 as the champion in New York. Small money next to a purse, but it is money we can actually count.

UFC champions headlining pay-per-views have historically earned a cut of buys above a threshold, and UFC 322 at MSG was one of the biggest cards of 2025. Della Maddalena has never said what his points deal looked like, and the UFC does not publish it, so any number here would be invented. What we can say is that two title fights in six months, both as a main or co-main event, are the paydays that moved him from mid-card money into real wealth.

His own review of the Makhachev fight was blunt. "It was not a good performance. A lot of technical issues came up against the better man," he said afterward, with LowKick MMA noting Makhachev landed four takedowns and controlled more than 19 minutes of the fight.

Here is the part that tells you how thin fighter money is below the very top. In March and April 2025, weeks before he fought for the title, Della Maddalena's team held a fundraiser dinner and Q&A at a bar in Perth, with VIP tickets at $150 to $250, to help cover travel to Montreal for his corner. The UFC covers the fighter and a limited number of cornermen; the rest of a team flying from Western Australia to Quebec is on the fighter.

Della Maddalena trains at Scrappy MMA in Perth under head coach Ben Vickers, who gave him his jiu-jitsu black belt. There is no public record of him owning the gym. The only endorsement listing we found is an Australian coffee brand, Beforeyouspeak Coffee, dated to 2026 in a booking database that we could not verify elsewhere, so we are not counting it.

His backstory explains the frugality. He started his pro career 0-2, both losses by stoppage, including a broken nose against Darcy Vendy in 2016. He worked an office job managing client accounts while studying commerce and fighting on the Perth regional scene, and he won the Eternal MMA welterweight title in 2018 and defended it four times before the UFC called.

On May 2, 2026, Della Maddalena headlined UFC Fight Night in Perth at RAC Arena against Carlos Prates. "Now I get to headline the hometown show, which is really a dream come true," he said in the build-up. Prates stopped him with strikes at 3:17 of the third round.

He posted afterward that it was "not the desired result this time around but it was in line with the desired challenge." No injury or surgery was confirmed. In January 2026 he had said he wanted Shavkat Rakhmonov and called a Makhachev rematch "the dream." As of October 18, 2026, he still had nothing booked, with Mike Malott publicly angling for the fight.

A headliner's purse, even without a bonus, is still six figures for a former champion. But headlining Fight Nights is not the same as headlining pay-per-views, and that is the gap the losing streak has opened.

Add it up. Disclosed and confirmed: $20,000 from UFC 270, $300,000 in bonuses, and roughly $80,000 in outfitting pay across his biggest three events. Everything else is inference from how the UFC pays champions and challengers.

Sportskeeda put his net worth at $250,000 to $500,000 in March 2024, before the Burns knockout and both title fights, and that figure is a third-party estimate with no sourcing. It is clearly out of date now. Two title fights, a pay-per-view headliner at MSG and a hometown Fight Night main event push career gross earnings into the low millions on any reasonable reading.

Our estimate: $2.5 million to $4 million in career gross fight earnings, and a net worth of $1.5 million to $3 million after tax, team and management. He is not Makhachev rich. He is one more title run away from it, and right now he is two losses away from that run.