MMAmania.com (UFCmania.com)

Bloody Elbow

www.cagepotato.com

Brawl Sports

Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap

Fight Opinion

Five Ounces of Pain

MMA on Tap

Monday, February 5, 2007

UFC 67 Payouts


This just in from UFCMania.com:

UFCmania.com just received the fighter payouts for UFC 67 from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) for the event held on February 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events center in Las Vegas, Nevada:

Anderson Silva — $70,000 ($35,000 to show, $35,000 to win)
Travis Lutter — $20,000 Silva defeated Lutter via submission (strikes) in round two

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic — $350,000 ($245,000 net after $105,000 foreign tax)
Eddie Sanchez — $30,000 Filipovic defeated Sanchez via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Roger Huerta — $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 to win)
John Halverson — $3,000 Huerta defeated Halverson via knockout in round one

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson — $170,000 ($120,000 to show, $50,000 to win)
Marvin Eastman — $30,000 Jackson defeated Eastman via technical knockout (strikes) in round two

Patrick Cote — $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 to win)
Scott Smith — $12,000 Cote defeated Smith via unanimous decision

Terry Martin — $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)
Jorge Rivera — $12,000 Martin defeated Rivera via knockout in round one

Frank Edgar — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Tyson Griffin — $9,000 Edgar defeated Griffin via unanimous decision

Ryoto Machida — $36,000 ($18,000 to show, $18,000 to win)
Sam Hoger — $7,000 Machida defeated Hoger via unanimous decision

Dustin Hazelett — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Diego Saraiva — $3,000 Hazelett defeated Saraiva via unanimous decision

Note: Travis Lutter was fined 10 percent of his purse ($2,000) for failing to make weight. His opponent, Anderson Silva, will receive $1,000 and the NSAC will receive the other $1,000. Therefore, he really only takes home $18,000.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting to see how Dana White is treating the newbies Cro cop and Rampage pay wise vs. a UFC champion like Anderson Silva.

    Silva is sitting at the top of his class however he is being paid much less.

    Cro cop is at the top of his game and Rampage is no slouch and they deserve big numbers but wha happen to Silva's pay out???

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hey Colonel,

    This is the base pay that the fighters receive. It doesn't factor in the PPV percentage that the top draw fighters receive.

    Case in point: Chuck Liddell & Tito Jameson err... Ortiz.

    Chuck and Tito were paid out $250, 00 and $210, 000 respectively for their base pay.

    It is estimated that both fighters cleared close to 3 million dollars with PPV monies when Tito's tears cleared up after the fight.

    UFC payouts only hurt the fighters that lose, especially, the fighters that re in the undercards... those are the real warriors.

    Sean Salmon who got knocked the fuck out was paid $3000. That's not enough to cover the plane ticket, accommodations, IRS guy, trainers, and the fight trunks he was sporting while laying on the ground like a corpse... never mind the hospital bill charge he incurred.

    So, the biggest draws like Cro Cop and Rampage and Silva will receive a cut of the percentage of the Pay per view monies... unfortunately, that is confidential and stays within the family of the UFC.

    Reported fighter payout are nice to laugh about and talk about however, there is a whole other side of the business that very few know about.

    Liddlell is the highest paid UFC fighter in the game today.

    I want to see Rampage fight Chuck again, and that WILL happen and it will be the highest PPV draw that combat sports has ever seen.

    Tito Ortiz is a chump, always has been and always will be. Expect Cro Cop and Chuck to send the fighter bonuses into the stratosphere this year.

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.