Amanda Nunes Net Worth 2026: $4 Million

November 15, 2026

Daniel Reed

Amanda Nunes net worth: Amanda Nunes has an estimated net worth of $4 million as of November 2026, based on the figures published by Celebrity Net Worth (updated April 13, 2025) and Wealthy Gorilla (updated November 14, 2026), which agree on the number. No Forbes, Bloomberg or Hurun net-worth figure exists for her — those outlets have reported individual fight purses, never a net-worth total. The fortune was built almost entirely inside the Octagon: disclosed UFC purses of around $8.6 million across 17 appearances, plus pay-per-view shares, outfitting pay and smaller income from video games and her gym.

Last updated: November 2026.

Who is Amanda Nunes?

Amanda Nunes is a Brazilian mixed martial artist known as “The Lioness”, widely regarded as the greatest female fighter in MMA history. She was the first woman to hold two UFC titles at the same time — bantamweight, won in 2016, and featherweight, won in 2018 — and retired in June 2023 as the reigning two-division champion before entering the UFC Hall of Fame in 2025. At 38 she came out of retirement to challenge Kayla Harrison for the bantamweight title at UFC 334 on November 14, 2026, at Madison Square Garden. Read her full story in Amanda Nunes’s biography.

How the $4 million breaks down

No public filing or statement from Nunes discloses her wealth, so the $4 million figure is an outside estimate — but it is the figure the two most-cited trackers agree on in 2026. Here is what sits behind it:

Fight purses: NDTV Sports, reporting in October 2026, puts Nunes’s disclosed UFC fight purses at around $8.6 million across 17 UFC appearances. Her biggest single disclosed payday came in the Julianna Peña rematch at UFC 277 in July 2022, and her last four fights alone, from UFC 250 through UFC 289, generated more than $5.5 million in disclosed purses. These are disclosed figures only — they exclude locker-room bonuses, undisclosed incentives and pay-per-view revenue shares, which top UFC fighters negotiate into their contracts and which the promotion does not publish.
Peak per-fight pay: during her 2016–2021 championship peak she typically earned $400,000–$500,000 per fight before pay-per-view points, according to Wealthy Gorilla. The contrast with her early pay is stark: Forbes reported she earned $180,000 in total for winning the bantamweight title from Miesha Tate in 2016, including a $50,000 performance bonus and $30,000 from Reebok. Her pay rose sharply as her drawing power grew.
Pay-per-view shares: as a long-reigning champion headlining pay-per-view cards, Nunes earned a share of pay-per-view revenue on top of her disclosed purse — the standard arrangement for UFC champions. The amounts are not public, so no figure is included in the estimate, and none should be invented.
Outfitting pay and video games: under the UFC’s Reebok deal and then the Venum deal from 2021, champions received a flat per-fight outfitting fee — a few thousand dollars per fight, a minor income line. She also appears as a playable fighter in the EA Sports UFC video games, which brings likeness licensing income. Neither is large next to her purses.
Lioness Studio gym: after retiring, Nunes runs Lioness Studio, her gym in Florida. It is a post-retirement income line, but no revenue figure for the gym has been published anywhere, so none is quoted.
Endorsements: unlike Ronda Rousey, Nunes did not pursue a celebrity-endorsement career alongside fighting. No major standalone endorsement deal has been verified, so none is claimed here.

Career earnings timeline

2008: professional MMA debut (loss); regional fights in Brazil and the United States follow.
2011: 14-second knockout of Julia Budd in her Strikeforce debut.
2013: UFC debut at UFC 163 — first-round TKO of Sheila Gaff.
2016: wins the bantamweight title from Miesha Tate at UFC 200 ($180,000 total pay, per Forbes); stops Ronda Rousey in 48 seconds at UFC 207.
2017–2019: defends the bantamweight title against Valentina Shevchenko, Raquel Pennington and Holly Holm; wins the featherweight title from Cris Cyborg in 51 seconds at UFC 232 (December 2018).
2020: defends the featherweight title against Felicia Spencer and Megan Anderson; peak per-fight pay of $400,000–$500,000 before pay-per-view points.
2021: loses the bantamweight title to Julianna Peña at UFC 269 in one of the biggest upsets in UFC history.
2022: regains the title from Peña at UFC 277 — her biggest disclosed payday.
2023: beats Irene Aldana at UFC 289 and retires as reigning two-division champion; disclosed career purses stand at around $8.6 million.
2025: inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame (Modern Wing, Class of 2025); announces her comeback.
2026: challenges Kayla Harrison for the bantamweight title at UFC 334 on November 14 at Madison Square Garden; the purse is undisclosed.

How the estimate was made

There is no Forbes, Bloomberg or Hurun net-worth figure for Amanda Nunes — those outlets have covered her fight purses, not her total wealth. The $4 million headline is therefore a tracker estimate, and it should be read as one: Celebrity Net Worth’s figure, updated April 13, 2025, is $4 million; Wealthy Gorilla’s, updated November 14, 2026, is also $4 million. Other outlets sit nearby — Glimmer Sports gives $4–5 million, and the Times of India puts Nunes individually at $4–5 million within a $5–7 million combined figure with her wife Nina. The widest published range, $4–14 million from Surprise Sports, is noted but not used as the headline, since its top end is not explained by any documented income. Higher figures in circulation were excluded entirely: one site’s quick-facts table claims $70 million, but its own article text says $4 million — an obvious data error — and an “$8–10 million” figure in some roundups is unattributed. A figure of about $4.88 million from 2023 court documents also circulates, but the sources are ambiguous about whether it is one fight’s pay or total career earnings, so it is not used as an anchor.

The gap between roughly $8.6 million in disclosed gross purses and a $4 million net worth is not a contradiction: purses are pre-tax, pre-expense grosses spread over a decade, and the estimate is a post-tax figure after taxes, training-camp costs, management and living expenses. The undisclosed pay-per-view shares and bonuses push the gross higher still, but they are not documented, so the estimate stays conservative. On the evidence available, $4 million is the best-supported current estimate — and if a reputable outlet publishes a firmer figure, or her UFC 334 purse becomes public, this page will be updated.

Frequently asked questions

What is Amanda Nunes’s net worth?

Amanda Nunes’s net worth is estimated at $4 million as of November 2026, based on the figures published by Celebrity Net Worth and Wealthy Gorilla, which agree on the number. No Forbes, Bloomberg or Hurun net-worth figure exists for her.

How did Amanda Nunes make her money?

Nunes made her money almost entirely from fighting: disclosed UFC purses of around $8.6 million across 17 appearances, with her biggest payday in the Julianna Peña rematch at UFC 277, plus pay-per-view shares, outfitting pay, video-game likeness income and her Lioness Studio gym in Florida. She did not pursue major celebrity endorsement deals.

What was Amanda Nunes’s biggest payday?

Her biggest disclosed payday was the Julianna Peña rematch at UFC 277 in July 2022, where she regained the bantamweight title. NDTV Sports reports that her last four fights alone, from UFC 250 through UFC 289, generated more than $5.5 million in disclosed purses.

How much did Amanda Nunes earn in the UFC?

Her disclosed UFC fight purses total around $8.6 million across 17 appearances, according to NDTV Sports in October 2026. That figure excludes locker-room bonuses, undisclosed incentives and pay-per-view revenue shares, which are not published, so her total career earnings were higher — but the exact amount is not public.

Why is Amanda Nunes’s net worth lower than her career earnings?

Disclosed purses are pre-tax grosses spread over a decade, while a net-worth estimate is a post-tax figure after taxes, training-camp costs, management fees and living expenses. The $4 million estimate is also conservative: it does not count undisclosed pay-per-view shares, because those amounts are not public.