MMA Junkie addresses the report that came out over the weekend by a Brazilian outlet that the UFC withheld nearly $6 million of Anderson Silva’s fight purse due to his failing a drug test at UFC 183. The UFC released a statement citing that the story was not true. Also, the NSAC code states that it could not withhold such a payment.
Junkie specifically points out NSAC 467.142 and 467.147.
These two sections indicate the process by which Zuffa must submit fighter payment to the commission and the commission handles such distribution of payment. Also, only the commission can withhold a fight purse but only pending a disciplinary hearing.
Payout Perspective:
There has been no word whether the NSAC has withheld money from Silva’s earnings at UFC 183. Regardless, it appears the the UFC could not have done it on its own accord. The commission will meet next week to discuss the Silva’s failed drug test and determine a punishment at that point. The UFC and most of Silva’s sponsors are sticking with him as he denies taking PEDs.
Well, if there’s any truth to that figure, it squashes the UFC fighter pay myth. 6.8M is a hefty salary.
Oh Please the entire story is utter bullshit!!!!
The report is false because there is no way in hell the UFC paid Anderson 7 million dollars.
Fighbusiness is a professional retard.
Leon, you are 0 for 2 on predictions thus far. I bet you are gettin real nervous now. Hahahaha!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Silva made 6 million. But the rest of the story is BS! First most of that pay would be PPV cut which takes weeks to get numbers. If I remember correctly when the UFC released Coutures check stubs they were dates like a month or two after the fight. Also with it being the commissions job to withhold money there would be no reason they would get that figure. The commission only received fair entered money which is the reported pay we all see and usually that number comes from the commissions. They never get the PPV cut and I believe that reported salary has to be paid to the commission before the fight which makes PPV cut impossible to know.
What was my prediction?
” Before Anderson Silva’s mega-event at 168 he was hovering around 500k or so, and that was with a mythical status. Now, he’s lost twice (badly), been injured, and has no belt. I don’t see the Diaz ppv doing big numbers at all.”
” My point is very relevant he will do 375k give or take.” referring to UFC 183.
After 2 ppvs this year, the UFC has hit 1.4-1.5m ppv buys thus far. 3.5-3.6m more to hit 5m with 11 ppv’s scheduled remaining. Last year when they were at a god awful rut with having nearly every major ppv card getting scrapped, they still managed to do 3m buys. They should easily get to that roughly 3 and a half million buy number with that many ppvs left.
Really BS 6 MIL?? please break down the numbers for him to make 6 million on 183. And don’t make up some bullshit sponsor number either. Not a chance in hell he even came close to making 6 million, at most and its doubtful 2 million. Even if he was making 2 million he could afford better drugs, real drugs not unknown black market steroids, and a steroid coach to make him a pass, his own test to make sure he was clean. Seems these MMA guys cant afford the proper drugs and coaches to keep them clean for tests.
Yes I miscalculated Silva’s star power, he’s a huge asset to the UFC. A weidman/silva 3 fight would’ve been the biggest thing in the middleweight division.
5M is possible of course, that’s an avg. of 318k per PPV. But there’s always the wild card of disasters like injuries, PEDS (suspensions), a cancellation, etc. The UFC momentum as already been ruined after 1 month – look at 184. There’s no NFL now to promote UFC. Rory Mac is without a fight for 185 in his hometown. We shall see.
You are going to desperately need some injuries and cancellations. 5m isn’t just possible, it is likely at this point.
We still have Weidman-Belfort (no way this fight doesn’t make it by at least the end of the year), Aldo-McGregor- this will be big as long as Aldo doesn’t fail the blood test, and Jones- Johnson, those 3 will all probably do over 500k buys. The rest would just need to be mediocre cards with Pettis/Lawler/Velasquez, etc.
Sal are you really so dumb, you do not believe Silva made over 2m for that fight? By the way, why don’t you tell me what drugs mask agents during random blood tests? If you don’t know they are coming, you are fucked. Even Lance Armstrong said he wouldn’t pass testing like this.
By the way idiot- how many other pro athletes notably in boxing have failed ped tests and they weren’t even randomly blood tested?