MMAPayout.com has requested and received the disclosed fighter payouts from Sunday night’s UFC on Versus event that totaled $713,000. Note that the figures below represent only disclosed payout figures; often times fighters receive other forms of compensation that are not reported to the commission.
Disclosed Payouts
Jon Jones ($20,000+$20,000 = $40,000) defeated Brandon Vera ($60,000)
Junior dos Santos ($35,000+35,000 = $70,000) defeated Gabriel Gonzaga ($67,000)
Cheick Kongo ($55,000+$55,000 = $110,000) defeated Paul Buentello ($40,000)
Alessio Sakara ($21,000+$21,000 = $42,000) defeated James Irvin ($20,000)
Clay Guida ($25,000+$25,000 = $50,000) defeated Shannon Gugerty ($9,000)
Vladimir Matyushenko ($28,000+$28,000 = $56,000) defeated Eliot Marshall ($10,000)
Darren Elkins ($6,000+$6,000 = $12,000) defeated Duana Ludwig ($12,000)
John Howard ($13,000+$13,000 = $26,000) defeated Daniel Roberts ($6,000)
Brendan Schaub ($10,000+$10,000 = $20,000) defeated Chase Gormley ($10,000)
Mike Pierce ($8,000+ $8,000 = $16,000) defeated John Paulino ($6,000)
Jason Brilz ($9,000+$9,000 = $18,000) defeated Eric Schaefer ($13,000)
Total Disclosed Payouts = $713,000
Disclosed Bonuses
Knockout of the Night: Junior dos Santos, John Jones, John Howard ($50,000 each)
Submission of the Night: Clay Guida ($50,000)
Total Disclosed Payouts = $200,000
Payout Perspective
According to our records, the $713,000 in disclosed payouts is the most the UFC has ever paid out for a UFN-type on free television. However, Zuffa has made a practice of not disclosing payouts overseas, where it’s not required to, so its difficult to say whether this includes all free television events like UFC 75 , 89, or 105 that aired on SpikeTV.
The $200,000 paid out in disclosed bonuses is the most the UFC has ever paid out for any free event on television.
Very interesting, considering that their gate was only $568,125 , but you figure Versus may have compensated the UFC pretty well to give out bonuses like that. If not, then I am sure they don’t mind taking a short loss to achieve their long term goals on Versus (NBC Sports).
Cost of putting together an event like the one on Versus probably sits around the 2 million mark. These things aren’t cheap to put on. All things considered i doubt the UFC lost money on this one as they would have received a nice sum of money from Versus plus all the advertising money they make on the side. The big win is getting on another channel, one which they hope will become NBC’s “ESPN”.