(And he makes it look so easy…)

Chris Lytle‘s $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus at UFC 110 represented his seventh UFC performance bonus in his last eight fights, which made us wonder: Does that make him the #1 bonus-collector on the UFC’s roster? And who else is in the running? So, with the help of the UG and Wikipedia, we compiled a ranking of the UFC’s top performance bonus leaders, based on available information. When possible, we added up the grand totals of the fighters’ pay-bumps, though the amounts of these bonuses weren’t consistently reported before UFC 70.

Fighters With Twelve Bonuses
Joe Lauzon*: 6 Submission of the Night bonuses, 5 Fight of the Night bonuses, 1 Knockout of the Night bonus
Anderson Silva: 7 KOTN, 3 FOTN, 2 SOTN

Fighters With Ten Bonuses
Chris Lytle: 6 FOTN bonuses, 3 SOTN bonuses, 1 KOTN bonus; $515,000 total (Note: Lytle retired from the UFC after his victory over Dan Hardy at UFC on Versus 5, which scored him a Fight of the Night and a Submission of the Night bonus.)

Fighters With Nine Bonuses:
Nate Diaz: 5 FOTN, 4 SOTN; $445,000 total

Fighters With Seven Bonuses:
Wanderlei Silva: 5 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $420,000 total
Clay Guida: 5 FOTN, 2 SOTN; $320,000 total
Frankie Edgar: 6 FOTN, 1 KOTN

Fighters With Six Bonuses:
Donald Cerrone: 3 FOTN, 2 KOTN, 1 SOTN; $410,000 total
Jim Miller: 3 FOTN, 3 SOTN; $295,000 total
Sam Stout: 5 FOTN, 1 KOTN
Tyson Griffin: 5 FOTN, 1 SOTN

Fighters With Five Bonuses:
Josh Koscheck: 2 FOTN, 2 KOTN, 1 SOTN; $345,000 total
Diego Sanchez: 5 FOTN; $345,000 total
Jon Jones: 2 FOTN, 2 SOTN, 1 KOTN; $340,000 total
Carlos Condit: 3 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $340,000 total
Sam Stout: 4 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $305,000 total
Quinton Jackson: 3 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $295,000 total
Stefan Struve: 3 SOTN, 1 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $295,000 total
Terry Etim: 4 SOTN, 1 FOTN; $265,000 total
Matt Wiman: 4 FOTN, 1 SOTN; $255,000 total

Fighters With Four Bonuses:
Lyoto Machida: 3 KOTN, 1 FOTN; $329,000 total
Edson Barboza: 3 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $300,000 total
Forrest Griffin: 4 FOTN, 1 SOTN; $295,000 total
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira: 2 FOTN, 1 KOTN, 1 SOTN; $290,000 total
Georges St. Pierre: 3 FOTN, 1 SOTN; $280,000 total
Alan Belcher: 2 FOTN, 2 SOTN; $270,000 total
BJ Penn: 2 SOTN, 1 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $250,000 total
Tito Ortiz: 2 FOTN, 1 KOTN, 1 SOTN; $250,000 total
Johny Hendricks: 3 KOTN, 1 FOTN; $250,000 total
Mauricio Rua: 2 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $245,000 total
Mac Danzig: 3 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $235,000 total
Evan Dunham: 3 FOTN, 1 SOTN; $230,000 total
Brad Pickett: 3 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $220,000 total
Demian Maia: 4 SOTN; $215,000 total
Jeremy Stephens: 3 KOTN, 1 FOTN; $215,000 total
Wilson Gouveia: 2 FOTN, 1 KOTN, 1 SOTN; $205,000 total
Pat Barry: 2 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $205,000 total
Chris Leben: 2 FOTN, 2 KOTN; $200,000 total
Chan Sung Jung: 2 SOTN, 1 FOTN, 1 KOTN; $200,000 total
Charles Oliveira: 3 SOTN, 1 FOTN; $195,000 total
Roy Nelson: 3 KOTN, 1 FOTN; $190,000 total
Dennis Siver: 2 KOTN, 1 FOTN, 1 SOTN; $170,000 total
Cole Miller: 3 SOTN, 1 KOTN
Jason MacDonald: 3 SOTN, 1 KOTN
Rashad Evans: 2 FOTN, 2 KOTN
Yves Edwards: 2 FOTN, 1 KOTN, 1 SOTN

Active UFC fighters who have scored three bonuses during their time in the Octagon include Dan Henderson, Junior Dos Santos, Cain Velasquez, Rich Franklin, Vitor Belfort, Martin Kampmann, Jake Ellenberger, Brian Stann, Melvin Guillard, Travis Browne, Paulo Thiago, CB Dollaway, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Paul Taylor, Terry Etim, Thiago Tavares, Krzysztof Soszynski, Tom Lawlor, Scott Jorgensen, and Dennis Bermudez. If we’ve missed any other fighters with four or more bonuses, please enlighten us in the comments section. We’ll update this list any time the leaderboard changes.

* This total includes Joe Lauzon’s reported Knockout of the Night bonus for his 48-second KO of Jens Pulver at UFC 63 and his Submission of the Night bonus for choking out Brandon Melendez at the TUF 5 Finale, but these bonuses were never officially announced by the UFC. Following UFC 155, the UFC confirmed that Lauzon and Anderson Silva are both tied with 12 bonuses.

Last update: 5/3/13