UFC 79 Fighter Payouts

[dvs1]

From mmajunkie.com

Chuck Liddell : $550,000 ($500,000 for showing, $50,000 for Fight of the night)

Georges St. Pierre : $210,000 ($80,000 for showing, $80,000 for winning, $50,000 for Submission of the night)

Wanderlei Silva : $200,000 ($150,000 for showing, $50,000 for Fight of the night)

Matt Hughes : $100,000

Eddie Sanchez : $96,000 ($23,000 for showing, $23,000 for winning, $50,000 for KO of the night)

Lyoto Machida : $60,000 ($30,000 for showing, $30,000 for winning)

Rameau Sokoudjou : $40,0O0

Rich Clementi : $28,000 (14k + 14k)

Dean Lister : $22,000 (11k + 11k)

Manny Gamburyan : $20,000 (10k +10k)

James Irvin : $16,000 (8k + 8k)

Melvin Guillard : $10,000

Roan Carneiro : $10,000 (5k + 5k)

Tony DeSouza : $7,000

Mark Bocek : $6,000 (3k + 3k)

Nate Mohr : $6,000

Soa Palelei : $5,000

Luis Cane : $5,000

Jordan Radev : $5,000

Doug Evans : $3,000

Disclaimer: the figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter’s income. They also do not include any bonuses paid to some of the main-card fighters who sometimes earn a small cut of pay-per-view revenue. They also do not include other non-disclosed/“locker-room” bonuses the UFC sometimes pays.

When GSP's contract is up for renegotiation he better be in the Chuck/Randy/Tito territory. Not only is he a fan favorite but a great embassador to the sport.

[Synyster]

damn that is crazy how big the split is from chuck down to doug evans....

[Gettin Big]

boxers like lewis dela hoya and tyson must sit back and laugh and think...."SUCKERS"!! they get paid 30 million to fight with 10 ounce gloves and dont get there joints pulled out of socket, get knees in the head etc. etc. LOL

[Voice of Reason]

Boxing is over a hundred year old sport, while MMA is just around 10-12 years old. Top pro fighters will be making millions by 2015 just wait you'll see...

[rockinred]

boxers like lewis dela hoya and tyson must sit back and laugh and think...."SUCKERS"!! they get paid 30 million to fight with 10 ounce gloves and dont get there joints pulled out of socket, get knees in the head etc. etc. LOL

You should take the bold statement back... Boxers get jaws broken, face/cheek bones broken, ribs broken, knuckles broken, internal bleeding, face busted open... ears bitten off(oops, that doesn't count), and have even died in the ring, etc.... so let's not go there...

[Gettin Big]

You should take the bold statement back... Boxers get jaws broken, face/cheek bones broken, ribs broken, knuckles broken, internal bleeding, face busted open... ears bitten off(oops, that doesn't count), and have even died in the ring, etc.... so let's not go there...

true enough but usually they don't get beat as bad as some of the mma fights, I do hope soon though that the mma fighters get more of a purse, chuck liddell with his popularity should at least get a million for a fight as well as some of the other top fighters

[rockinred]

true enough but usually they don't get beat as bad as some of the mma fights, I do hope soon though that the mma fighters get more of a purse, chuck liddell with his popularity should at least get a million for a fight as well as some of the other top fighters

yes, I was shocked to know how small the purse is on the big name fighters... there is a lot of cash flowing and popularity flowing around on these... I watched that one on with tank and kimbo this weekend and they did a pretty good job of hyping and working the cage... need good organizations to up the anty on the $$$ .. don't want UFC to dictate too much of it.

I have watched boxing throughout the years and boxed so I can't agree that their beat down is any less than the cage boys...

BTW, nice avy...