MMAPayout.com has retrieved the UFC 116 payouts from the Nevada State Athletic Commission where a total of $923,000 in disclosed purse was paid to the fighters.
The usual disclaimers exist here: the disclosed payouts do not represent the full amount that each fighter earned.
Disclosed payouts
Brock Lesnar ($400,000) def. Shane Carwin ($40,000)
Chris Leben ($86,000) def. Yoshihiro Akiyama ($45,000)
Chris Lytle ($52,000) def. Matt Brown ($10,000)
Stephan Bonnar ($50,000) def. Krzysztof Soszynski ($10,000)
George Sotiropoulos ($24,000) def. Kurt Pellegrino ($25,000)
Brendan Schaub ($20,000) def. Chris Tuchscherer ($12,000)
Ricardo Romero ($16,000) def. Seth Petruzelli ($10,000)
Kendall Grove ($50,000) def. Goran Reljic ($5,000)
Gerald Harris ($20,000) def. David Branch ($6,000)
Daniel Roberts ($12,000) def. Forrest Petz ($6,000)
Jonathan Madsen ($16,000) def. Karel Vemola ($8,000)
Total disclosed payouts: $923,000
Disclosed bonuses
Fight of the Night: Chis Leben vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama & Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski ($75,000 each)
KO of the Night: Gerald Harris ($75,000)
Submission of the Night: Brock Lesnar ($75,000)
Total disclosed bonuses: $450,000
Carwin’s pay seems rather low for headlining what Dana called the biggest HW fight in UFC history. I’m sure there were a lot of locker room bonuses handed out that night.
Does anyone else think that Lesnar does not deserve the “submission of the night” bonus?
Carwin is still on his early UFC contract, kind of like a rookie contract, although with things I’ve heard from Faber, BJ and Barnett about disclosed compared to actual show money (not bonuses or sponsors) I would imagine Carwin got more than 40k to show.
UFC, is a joke, Dana and the rest of the owners should give there heads a shake, start paying these guys what they are worth!!! how can you give Brock $400k and give Carwin 40k? absolutely ridiculous!!!