UFC 73 pay scale

[RandomTriangle]

UFC 73 "Stacked" Reported Purses

Frank Edgar - $5,000 + $5,000 win bonus
Mark Bocek - $3,000

Jorge Gurgel - $7,000 + $7,000 win bonus
Diego Saraiva - $3,000

Stephan Bonnar - $16,000 + $16,000 win bonus
Mike Nickels - $5,000

Chris Lytle - $10,000 + $10,000 win bonus
Jason Gilliam - $3,000

Kenny Florian - $8,000 + $8,000 win bonus
Alvin Robinson - $3,000

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - $100,000 + $100,000 win bonus
Heath Herring - $70,000

UFC Lightweight Championship
Sean Sherk - $14,000 + $14,000 win bonus
Hermes Franca - $14,000

UFC Middleweight Championship
Anderson Silva - $45,000 + $45,000 win bonus
Nathan Marquardt - $24,000

Tito Ortiz - $210,000
Rashad Evans - $16,000

POSTED -- 07/09/07

source: Thefightnetwork.com

[tekkengod]

thats a bunch of crap, i wouald gaver sherk alot mroe than that

[RandomTriangle]

i want fighters to make more, just as much as anyone else... but you guys are acting like what's happening isn't normal business.

No one put a gun to anyone's head and made them fight. They don't like the pay? Then don't fight.

This is how businesses work.... QUESTION: If a UFC show doesn't do well and actually LOSES money, are the fighters going to get together and write Dana White a check? No.

Dana takes the risk, he reaps the rewards.

I (and i'm sure many others) could sit here and explain HOW business works, but i don't think i have to.

There are soooo many parallels to boxing. Heavy weights make more than light weights.... why? Because it's what "average" fans want to see. The "average" UFC fan just wants to watch someone get their head kicked in.

The answer is in the management of the fighters. When a manager gains 2-6 GOOD fighters he can negotiate prices since he has the leverage of his other fighters.

But even they will make a loooot of money... for the same reason. THEY take the risk.

For every Mike Tyson Don King had, he probably had 10 failures.... 10 fighters he invested in and lost massive amounts of money on. When he finds a winner though, he gets the profit.

He who takes the risks, reaps the rewards (And the failures

[slipthejab]

On top of that... Dana White was the one smart enough to see it as a business on a whole different level to begin with. He brought on the investors that fronted the original money and he's the one keeping it all together. It requires guts, charisma and business skills. As someone who's worked in the fight promtion business I can tell you that is no small task to accomplish what he has.

[BGile]

The cost of Ortiz vs Evans is very wrong IMHO.

What a joke, it is a pay off of having Ortiz not fight White (keeping his mouth closed and the whole Chuck Liddell story about Ortiz) awhile back, plus the huge amount of BS and lies that were running rampant, is my guess anyway.

Ortiz is certainly not worth that over Evans. Draw LOL...Tito Ortiz - $210,000
Rashad Evans - $16,000...

Gary

[TKDjoe]

My question is how are the middle and lower level fighters making a living. Let's say Florian for example if he did that three times a year that would only be 48000.00 per year, before taxes. After expense, gym fees, trainers etc.. there can't be much left. It looks like a pretty miserable way to spend your life.

[Apotheosis]

They make some additional money from sponsorships, but they certainly are not doing great...

Some of them still work day jobs to make enough money

[spirez]

My question is how are the middle and lower level fighters making a living. Let's say Florian for example if he did that three times a year that would only be 48000.00 per year, before taxes. After expense, gym fees, trainers etc.. there can't be much left. It looks like a pretty miserable way to spend your life.

Can't say i'd complain at fighting 3 times a year, training full time and getting by. None of us know what else they have for income.

Surprised at Sherk and Franca getting less than Bonnar though, surely that's wrong, especially when he's fresh off a drug ban!

[Gufbal1981]

Can't say i'd complain at fighting 3 times a year, training full time and getting by. None of us know what else they have for income.

Surprised at Sherk and Franca getting less than Bonnar though, surely that's wrong, especially when he's fresh off a drug ban!

Bonnar did get awarded the same contract as Griffin got from the TUF Finale...

[exothermic]

how much did ufc73 make, dana is ripping them off if you cant come out n man up and say that you are being stupid, dont bring that its business talk around here, the fighters r making the business you are just there tryna make money off of them

[RandomTriangle]

how much did ufc73 make, dana is ripping them off if you cant come out n man up and say that you are being stupid, dont bring that its business talk around here, the fighters r making the business you are just there tryna make money off of them

what?

suuuree.... and YOU should make the same as YOUR boss...

How many people in corporations make as much as the CEO?

The fighters don't like it... don't fight. Oh wait, the ufc STILL pays the better than any other organization (they own pride remember).

It's the same as in boxing... lightweights make less... and the PEOPLE WHO TAKE THE RISK, MAKE THE MONEY.

If a UFC event DOESN'T make money, are the fighters going to get together and write Dana White a check? i didn't think so. HE takes the risk, HE gets the reward...

That's how business works.

Of course i want fighters to get paid more... but i'm not silly enough to think this type of pay scale is unique to the UFC... let alone combat sports....

i pray fighters make more, but i realize... No one put a gun to their head and said fight. If they don't like it DON’T FIGHT.

It's not like they didn't realize the pay was going to be like this... hell MMA pay has NEVER been as high as it is now... if anything they should have gone into fighting expecting to get paid less... PLUS the UFC opens more doors for fighters than any organization... Plus... wait... i'm going to stop... because i could go on forever.

[Angelus]

UFC does not have the fan base to hand out 7figure checks. It nowhere near making the kind of money boxing does. However, when that does happen you will see the fighters make A LOT more. Then like Slip says, its a matter of time before the mob jumps in on it and gives it a real boost.

[tekkengod]

UFC does not have the fan base to hand out 7figure checks. It nowhere near making the kind of money boxing does. However, when that does happen you will see the fighters make A LOT more. Then like Slip says, its a matter of time before the mob jumps in on it and gives it a real boost.

do you have a mental disease!? check the figures buddy, double the boxing ppvs last year, and tripled wrestlings. get some facts before you speak.

its evolved 10 fold in the last decade. boxing is dead, long and buried.

[Doublejab]

If those figures are correct I think its an absolute disgrace that Tito got so much more than everyone else. I know marketing is marketing but a light-heavy weight who isn't even ranked amongst the best in the world (top ten? maybe...) and has beaten no one significant for years making twice as much as the lightweight and middleweight champions combined? WTF?

Sherk might have a style that limits his appeal to some extent but Anderson certainly doesn't! IMHO he should have been paid more than Ortiz and his fight should have been the main event, its a middleweight title fight so why not? In the event it was the far more entertaining of the two anyway!

[nicolethai1]

Does anyone know roughly how much UFC73 made all told?

[slipthejab]

how much did ufc73 make, dana is ripping them off if you cant come out n man up and say that you are being stupid, dont bring that its business talk around here, the fighters r making the business you are just there tryna make money off of them

lol... spoken like someone who's never made an investment or had a job above McDonalds level. Sorry to give you a reality check but it's a business whether you can figure that out or not.

Dana took the risks to get it off the ground, brought in the money and the investors, wore the risks and managed it... so he makes the big bucks.

You don't like it? Tuff titty... start your own MMA promotion.

We won't hold our breath.:rolleyes:

edit: I just saw your date of birth... that explains a lot.

[slipthejab]

boxing is dead, long and buried.

Someone forgot to tell the boxers and the fans. :rolleyes:
Seriously where do you get this garbage from? :confused:

[TKDjoe]

do you have a mental disease!? check the figures buddy, double the boxing ppvs last year, and tripled wrestlings. get some facts before you speak.

its evolved 10 fold in the last decade. boxing is dead, long and buried.


Can you show us a source for these figures please.

[Angelus]

boxing is dead, long and buried.
depends on who is fighting...
go check the $ that came in from the De La Hoya- Mayweather fight.

[Apotheosis]

Can you show us a source for these figures please.

From Dave Meltzer’s WrestlingObserver.com newsletter:

"UFC did about 5,225,000 in domestic buys with a total gross revenue for PPV events of $222,766,000. The 10 live PPV shows did over $40 million. Their PPV number of $222 million is a record, beating boxings record year in 1999 of $200 million. The UFC PPV revenue was up over 700 percent over 2005."

[Otataral]

I think they could afford to pay the lower scale fighters a fair amount more. and pay some of the higher levels ones lesser. maybe even it out abit.