MMA Junkie reports the final payouts from Bellator 106 on Saturday. Eddie Alvarez was the big winner of the night taking home $160,000. The final salary payroll for the event was $551,500.
Via MMA Junkie:
Eddie Alvarez: $160,000 (includes $80,000 win bonus)
def. Michael Chandler: $95,000
Emanuel Newton: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Muhammed Lawal: $10,000
Daniel Straus: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
def. Pat Curran: $40,000
Joe Riggs: $100,000 (includes $95,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Bronzoulis: $5,000
Mike Richman: $14,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus)
def. Akop Stepanyan: $3,000
Jesse Juarez: $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
def. Joe Williams: $3,000
Cristiano “Soldier Boy” Souza: $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
def. Alejandro Garcia: $2,000
Brandon Halsey: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
def. Hector Ramirez: $7,000
Mike Guymon: $14,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus)
def. Aaron Miller: $4,000
Cleber Luciano: $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
def. Joe Camacho: $2,000
Josh Smith: $3,000 (includes $1,500 win bonus)
def. Darren Smith: $1,500
Payout Perspective:
Alvarez and Joe Riggs were the big money winners of the night. Notably, Mo Lawal, received $10K for his second straight loss to Emanuel Newton. Lawal’s loss has to be a blow for Bellator considering the amount of hype and investment it had in him.
King Mo will be getting paid a lot more than that, presumably Viacom is paying him separate as part of his Bellator and TNA contract.
@duck
I would think so but the company’s overall investment is Lombard-esque at this point. He hasn’t trained in pro wrestling due to his MMA commitments so the question is does he just focus on TNA stuff now and put MMA on the back burner? With the questions surrounding TNA’s finances, we shall see what Viacom wants to do with him.
It’s sad that Bellator’s lw champion and challenger made more indivdually than the UFC’s champ Wiedman did in dethroning Silva. Dana White is a cheap ass.
How is that sad? What is sad is your level of education. Do you realize Alvarez is on a new contract while Weidman refused to resign before his fight? Do you realize Alvarez is a former champion and Weidman was not? Do you realize Alvarez was a big name for a long time while Weidman was a new up and comer? Do, you didn’t realize those things because you are a fool! I wont even bring up the fact you don’t know for sure what any of these guys are actually paid. You have already reached a level fo stupidity that I don’t need to keep piling on. Before you start talking finances. You might want to invest in night school right after your shift at the local McDonalds.
As for the article. These are good salaries. Ironically these higher than the going rate salaries is what will hasten their decision to pull the plug. The good news is. I feel they probably got very good ratings for this show. I expect over 1 million viewers. I think the negative press they got for the PPV and the talk actually made a lot of people aware of the event. Lucky for them the main event ended up masking what was a very pathetic and boring card. Now no one will remember had bod the rest of the fights were.
Wow. Branslapper is clearly obsessed with people who disagree with his skewed point of view. Have fun dreaming about me, weirdo!
Branslapper has a GED at best.
It’s funny how it seems like the same people who recognize that combat sports are inherently star-driven also compare individuals’ salaries from a 1:1 perspective.
BS’s context is sound. Salaries in combat sports will always vary wildly in tandem with the popularity and drawing power of the athletes, as well as their career accomplishments and the point at which they reside on the perceptible timelines of their careers.
B.s. is a Dana disciple..and gets pissed at anyone who says anything negative about the UFC…….hahaha
“salaries in combat sports vary wildly in tandem with the popularity and drawing power of the athletes”
Top UFC fighters are popular but they’re still paid low compared to boxing…..Tyson fury is not as popular as top UFC fighters but gets 5 million euros or 7m dollars against haye…..so you can’t package combat sports when it comes to pay…boxing has big money…UFC pays peanuts…..
At this point, I would think most understand that the UFC numbers are a portion of overall pay when it comes to main events and co-main events.
Just like Mo’s pay here. Does anyone think that Mo is not being paid outside of the listed 10k? Whether it be a monthly stipend or some other bonus, he is making more than that.
Dollars to donuts that Mo and Alvarez are getting more than is reported (probably Chandler as well), but it’s certainly not David Haye or Tyson Fury money. It certainly appears that boxing is making more millionaires than MMA. I don’t know how world-wide revenues compare between the two sports, but based on the salaries of the participants, I’d say boxing is winning.
Who cares what boxers make? It’s a team effort to out on an event. Just because boxers take all the money and everyone else involved is under paid doesnt mean the UFC fighters are under paid. UFC fighters and everyone involved get paid which keeps the incentive to keep building the sport.
You also forget that Boxers are their brand and Zooey responsible for their revenue. That isn’t the case with MMA fighters. The UFC brand is the reason for 90% of the revenue a fighters fight brings in. We have seen this time and again as the UFC brand not only adds credibility to a fighter as we saw with Ronda and Brock just to name a few. But it also adds hundreds of thousands of PPV buys before any name is put on the event. This can’t be disputed because we have seen every promotion with every big name fighter fail big time when they try to go on PPV. Bellator can’t do it, Pride, K-1, Affliction, WFA, etc none of them with some of the top ranked fighters at the time can’t do it.
Why does the UFC get more money than boxing promoters? Because the UFC is the main attraction. Easy as that. Money in both sports go to what people are paying to see. You can’t get more fair than that! Tito/Rampage in the UFC does 300k plus buys. Yet in Bellator it would have been a success if it reached 100k. Why is that? Gee I wonder?
Brainsmasher
“Why does the UFC get more money than boxing promoters? Because the UFC is the main attraction. Easy as that. Money in both sports go to what people are paying to see.”
If this is the case how do you explain UFC 158 doing around 950k buys and UFC 161 doing about 150k?
If the UFC is the main attraction, if that is what people are paying to see we should not see such large swings in the buy rates. Think your posts through.
I care what boxers make because I’m a fan of boxing as well as MMA. I watched one of the best HW matches I have seen in a long time this past Saturday and one of the participants is now in a medically induced coma. I don’t know how much he made for that fight, but I hope it’s a lot for risking his life the way he did.
So yes, the salaries of the athletes who risk their lives for my entertainment interest me. I want them to be well rewarded for the risks they take, and it pisses me off when I feel that they are being taken advantage of simply because they have no better option.
It’s valid to compare the salaries of the respective sports and speaks both to the differences in the structures of the sports and their drawing power. The relative salaries would seem to indicate that MMA fighters make less for the same drawing power as their counterparts in boxing. We don’t actually the details of the revenue streams of each event (nor the detailed salaries for that matter) but to use an example where the revenue streams should be similar, it seems like when two boxers get 1M non-PPV views on a subscription cable channel (HBO, Showtime, Epix, etc) they make more money than when two MMAers get 1M views on a similar channel.
The UFC exploits its fighters. And that’s the bottom line.
Jack
I never said the fighters do not factor in at some point. When the UFC makes them huge stars they can then bring in even more UFC fans. The UFC acknowledges this by giving them a PPV cut. Fact is the guys on UFC 158 couldn’t do anything without the UFC brand. No one would know them. Hell, even after the UFC built them into stars. They still couldn’t sell PPVs outside of the UFC Brand. Just like Tito and Rampage cant even with the history of being promoted by the UFC. There is UFC fans and their is fans of the fighters. Then there is the fans of credible fighters. The size of the fans base of the fighters is small. They need the credible fighter fan base. Which can only be had by fighting in the UFC. Even if you got out of the UFC without being washed out. You still need people to fight to be credible. Without it a guy like Tito and Rampage who have headlined UFC events with 1 million PPV buyers. Don’t have 50,000 buys who give a damn.
So like I said. The UFC is responsible for almost every single PPV sold when it comes downs to it. Why do you think Brock Lesnar was such a big deal AFTER signing with the UFC? He fought for K-1 in Los Angeles before that. Why didn’t anyone care? His fans knew, WWE fans knew, everyone knew. No one cared because it wasn’t legit until he come to the UFC. So over night he went from selling 30,000 PPV to 600,000 PPV. Ronda Rousey’s popularity blew up as soon as she signed a UFC contract before even fighting and did a 400,000 PPV event in her first fight. People took her serious and WMMA serous when the UFC give them credibility.
Diego
I think you are being overly emotional. You make the mistake of getting personally attacked to athletes just because they are on TV. These guys risk their life no more than anyone else in their job. Why aren’t you speaking out for 7-11 employees who are robbed and shot all the time while being paid 7.25 an hour? Because they are not on TV? That’s bullshit. So one shouldn’t use that logic to argue over worth. I think Chael Sonnen said it best when talking about Tito and Rampage. These guys ate at the UFC table for years. Then when it was over they said everything to destroy it. When all they had to do was say, “Thank You!”.
That is basically what we are discussing here. The greed of fighters. None of them ever are thankful for what they got and have been given. They are always looking to get more even if it means stepping on someone who got them where they are. There is nothing to show the UFC takes advantage of their employees. The only way you can come to that conclusion is if you worship fighters because they are on tv. When you consider the level of fame and income these guys get in an industry created by the UFC. There is no way one can believe that. Considering I have watched this sport since 1996 and seen what people fought for and how it has risen astronomical. In fact at one point no one got paid unless they won a 8-16 man tournament in one night. That means 15 guys didn’t make anything. Now because of the UFC these guys can make sponsorship deals alone that make them more than most Americans make in a year.
No one in boxing created the boxing industry like the UFC has. No one in Boxing does for its fighters and the sport what the UFC does. No one cares who promote Mayweather fights. Be it King, Shaw, Golden Boy, or himself. No one cares if it is Showtime or HBO productions. That isn’t the case in MMA where the UFC moniker means everything. Why do you think no one has tried to pay these starving and homeless fighters more than the UFC and run them on their own PPV? Because they know without the UFC letters. They will lose their ass. Its not hard to run a PPV. Its hard to get people to buy it. Then when you have to pay salaries the UFC is paying. Then you have to sell over 100K PPV’s. No one can do it.
So what it boils down to is you do not want the UFC to get the money it deserves. Why do you think Mayweather promotes his own fights now? Its because he gets paid more. He takes more risks, does more work, puts up lots of money, so he can then deserve more money and get more money. It makes him as much as 50 million more each fight. But when its the UFC who does the same thing. You have an issue. That double standard doesn’t make sense. Hero Worship is the only way I can explain how anyone can think that way.
Brainsmasher and his emotional essays lol…..
Brainsmasher
So I take that as you admitting what I quoted was a mistake? Because your reply was basically a backpedal from that quote.
I think branslapper is a megalomaniac. That or just a complete retard LMAO!
interesting, again I cause Brainsmasher to run for the hills.