FIGHTER SALARY BREAKDOWN FOR UFC 71

[Bluto]

Title Match & Main Event Fighters

-Chuck Liddell: $500,000 (18th fight in UFC; lost to Quinton Jackson)

-Quinton Jackson: $225,000 (2nd fight in UFC after 17 fights in Pride; defeated Chuck Liddell)


Main Card Fighters

-Karo Parisyan: $32,000 (9th fight in UFC; defeated Josh Burkman)

-Ivan Salaverry: $17,500 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Terry Martin)

-Terry Martin: $12,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Ivan Salaverry)

-Kalib Starnes: $10,000 (3rd fight in UFC; defeated Chris Leben)

-Chris Leben: $10,000 (9th fight in UFC; lost to Kalib Starnes)

-Houston Alexander: $8,000 (1st fight in UFC; defeated Keith Jardine)

-Josh Burkman: $7,000 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Karo Parisyan)

-Keith Jardine: $7,000 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Houston Alexander)


Preliminary Match Fighters

-Din Thomas: $28,000 (7th fight in UFC; defeated Jeremy Stephens)

-Wilson Gouveia: $16,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Carmelo Marrero)

-Thiago Silva: $16,000 (1st fight in UFC; defeated James Irvin)

-Alan Belcher: $14,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Sean Salmon)

-James Irvin: $7,000 (5th fight in UFC; lost to Thiago Silva)

-Carmelo Marrero: $5,000 (3rd fight in UFC; lost to Wilson Gouveia)

-Sean Salmon: $3,000 (2nd fight in UFC; lost to Alan Belcher)

-Jeremy Stephens: $3,000 (1st fight in UFC; lost to Din Thomas)

Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $920,500

[americanbulldog]

Too bad they don't disclose % of PPV buys each fighter gets, if any. 

[20inch calves]

how did keith jardine make less then houston alexander when jardine was heading for a title fight soon

[Bluto]

funny how some Preliminary Match Fighters gets paid more than main card

whats up with that

good payday for chuck

[cheeksmaliod]

Jackson was paid 450 thousand taken diretly from the Ufc website.
ADVERTISEMENT
 
 
A few days before the fight, Jackson insisted he didn't care about having the belt around his waist. It was, he said, all about the money.

"Paper. Cheddar. That's it. First and last," Jackson insisted.

He got his share of the cheddar for walloping Liddell, earning $450,000.

As good as banking that money sounded to him – "I want to get me a Bentley," he said, beaming – he clearly was falling in love with the gaudy gold belt he had strapped around his waist.


http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-jackson052807&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[americanbulldog]

funny how some Preliminary Match Fighters gets paid more than main card

whats up with that

good payday for chuck

Had he a bigger name opponent, Din would have been on the maincard.  He is a good fighter with well rounded skills.  His double off of his cross was smoooooooth.  He has a win over Jens, and has faced top tier competition. 

Gouveia, if motivated could make some noise in the division.  He is very well rounded with a slick ground game.  He comes from a great camp. 

[Bluto]

Had he a bigger name opponent, Din would have been on the maincard.  He is a good fighter with well rounded skills.  His double off of his cross was smoooooooth.  He has a win over Jens, and has faced top tier competition. 

Gouveia, if motivated could make some noise in the division.  He is very well rounded with a slick ground game.  He comes from a great camp. 

id love to respond to this but chutebox is deleting my posts. next time ill post the fighter salary on the e - entertainment board and we might have a discussion there

unfortunately this board is heavy censored by chutebox

[mrt]

oscar de la hoya 40 million mwahaahahahaahahah 500,000 is chicken feed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,pay em decent and we will get more quality,,theres some greedy girls out there

[onlyme]

Not sure if any of those have major sponsors but BJ gets an additional $40,000 a fight from Xyience on top of the $180,000 a year contract, plus $10,000 in product every three months.  So it adds up pretty good.  I am sure Chuck gets allot more than that.  In addition, you are going to start seeing merchindise in retail outlets with certain MMA fighters.  So even allot more money for a selected few.

[antcraw]

too bad a sub par athlete like Oscar De la Hota made 53 million last year.  #2 on the yearly earnings list of athletes behind Tiger.  Can't people see that boxing has crappy fighters and MMA has all the real athletes?

[CARTEL]

These earnings are terrible. They'd be lucky to take home half of that after taxes.

I wonder what Dana White took home?

[mrt]

too bad a sub par athlete like Oscar De la Hota made 53 million last year.  #2 on the yearly earnings list of athletes behind Tiger.  Can't people see that boxing has crappy fighters and MMA has all the real athletes?

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if they were paying these guys real money,,,,,none of the champs that we have now would be champs,,,,and that has allready been proven,,,,,,ufc are taking over so they pay rampage the big $$ and over he comes and takes a title,,,,u are fucking deluded if you think any pro boxer is a sub par athlete,,if the ufc ever takes over boxing as far as fighters paydays are concerened then we might see the best fighters in the world,,fighting in the ufc

[antcraw]

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if they were paying these guys real money,,,,,none of the champs that we have now would be champs,,,,and that has allready been proven,,,,,,ufc are taking over so they pay rampage the big $$ and over he comes and takes a title,,,,u are fucking deluded if you think any pro boxer is a sub par athlete,,if the ufc ever takes over boxing as far as fighters paydays are concerened then we might see the best fighters in the world,,fighting in the ufc

that post was sarcastic. tkae it easy tiger