The Nevada State Athletic Commission released the salaries from Saturday’s UFC 187. Notably, Chris Weidman and Anthony Johnson received $500,000 each for their respective fights.
Via MMA Junkie:
Daniel Cormier: $180,000 (includes $90,000 win bonus)
def. Anthony Johnson: $500,000
Chris Weidman: $500,000 (includes $250,000 win bonus)
def. Vitor Belfort: $300,000
Donald Cerrone: $152,000 (includes $76,000 win bonus)
def. John Makdessi: $30,000
Andrei Arlovski: $84,000 (includes $42,000 win bonus)
def. Travis Browne: $60,000
Joseph Benavidez: $106,000 (includes $53,000 win bonus)
def. John Moraga: $28,000
John Dodson: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
def. Zach Makovsky: $19,000
Dong Hyun Kim: $116,000 (includes $58,000 win bonus)
def. Josh Burkman: $45,000
Rafael Natal: $70,000 (includes $35,000 win bonus)
def. Uriah Hall: $14,000
Colby Covington: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Pyle: $51,000
Islam Makhachev: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Leo Kuntz: $10,000
Justin Scoggins: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus)
def. Josh Sampo: $13,000
According to MMA Junkie, Rose Namajunas received her show and win pay despite her fight with Nina Ansaroff being cancelled. Namajunas received $50,000 plus $2,000 from Ansaroff’s purse due to her missing weight. Not only was Ansaroff sick, but she missed weight and was fined her show money of $8,000. Thus, she received $6,000.
Payout Perspective:
It’s unbelievable to see Johnson receive $500,000 for his fight against Cormier. This makes him the highest paid fighter of the night if you consider Weidman is making $250K/$250K. Johnson just signed a new contract and he steps up big-time in pay. His last contract had him at $53k/$53K. Not clear if this new deal is a flat fee (i.e., no win bonus) but it is sure to make other fighters up for a new contract take notice. Aside from Johnson and Weidman, Vitor Belfort, Daniel Cormier, Donald Cerrone, Joseph Benavidez and Dong Hyun Kim earned six figures on Saturday.
Chump change….ufc is paying low because they will use the money to pay the loan and where the money goes is to spend huge sums on marketing to sustain the bubble hahahaha…spend for mcgrgor nd aldo hype hahahahahaha….too bad for the fighters
At $14,000, Uriah Hall probably is under if you calculate how much it must cost to pay his trainers and gym for months. I’m surprised that Cormier made only 90k/90k considering HE sold the last JJ PPV.
Gate was supposedly $5mm
Disclosed pay was $2.5mm
It’s always about half. Even with a couple million in bonus money UFC gets a nice ass profit
Well at least they can cover the millions lost in Canada!
sweet lord. cormier fights for the heavyweight titke for like 180k. weidman gets 500k soley because he won. Thurman, Broner & berto , kirkland made alot more fighting on free tv and none are champs. abner mares a dam straweight made 500k. so so sad.
uriah hall made 14k. isnt the mantra from the ufc that the bottom guys make decent money.
Fagbusiness is a professional homosexual who isn’t aware that Chris Weidman made a few million for this fight. He made more money than any of the tards you mentioned. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cormier also made a piece of the ppv.
By the way ass face, I remember a certain boxing ppv where a fighter named Paul Harness made 2k to fight on the main card. Yes 2k. UFC TUF finale fighters on the prelims make at least 8k to show up. HAHAHAHA!! Boxers at the bottom pay to fight, literally.
Saldaqueer!
http://www.ibtimes.com/boxing-news-floyd-mayweather-plans-farewell-fight-september-showtime-boss-1936592
Bad news for boxing!
7 fighters make 6 figures in just the disclosed numbers. Go find a boxing card with that many 6 figure payouts. Pretty rare.
Paul Harness is a tomato can who only fights 4 round fights, and he has no promotional contract. And he was never on a ppv main card. He was on the untelevised undercard opener of a ppv fight. He’s not even a full time boxer. And he’s ranked 616th in his weight class. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=501888&cat=boxer
Which 616th ranked UFC or mma fighter is making 2k in a fight were they have virtually no chance of winning?
D is retarded and needs serious help
Again, how do you take yourself seriously? Tomato cans in the UFC even at that time were making 6k/6k also with an opportunity to make an additional 100k in bonus money. That is for the very worst fighters on even low level TUF Finale cards.
Also, more importantly, Paul Harness absolutely 100% WAS on the televised card from the Chavez-Martinez ppv promoted by banner promoters Top Rank and Dibella Entertainment and distributed by HBO ppv.
“Rounding out the TELEVISED portion, wildly popular Notre Dame grad Mike Lee opens the telecast with a 6 round bout against Paul Harness”
Anyone who had ever been contracted by the UFC back in 2012, had been paid at least 3x that and that would be considering they lost. Half of the 6k/6k fighters back then, were part time fighters.
http://www.boxingscene.com/chavez-vs-martinez-purse-figures-undercard–57001
HAHAHAHA!!! Sal just said someone else needs serious help. This is probably coming from his parent’s basement wearing shit diapers, ranting incoherently at age 50.
There’s no way they would ever put a 4 round fight on a ppv. The article you cited was written before the event even took place. The ppv never included this fight. It might’ve been online stream or the free portion that airs before the ppv and nobody watches. The UFC has no equivalent because they don’t build up their fighters from the very bottom. Harness was nothing more than cannon fodder. There has never been a fight like that on any UFC card. A real equivalent would be to compare him to a tomato can hired by King of the Cage for a single fight to lose to a somewhat decent prospect. Even TUF finales wouldn’t feature somebody ranked that low. http://www.mmamania.com/2014/12/15/7395909/tuf-20-finale-payouts-ufc-salaries-carla-esparza-charles-oliveira-bring-home-bacon-mma
I don’t see anybody on there getting anywhere close to 100k. The last TUF winner only got 50k. Compare that to The Contender finale winner Sergio Mora who got $1 million. That’s the difference between the 2 sports. In boxing you work your way up to the top and earn exponentially larger purses the higher you move up. In MMA the ceiling for fighter purses is extremely low.
Another source to prove you wrong:
http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/8/24/3266262/chavez-jr-vs-martinez-undercard-mike-lee-opponent-notre-dame-subway-hbo-boxing-news
“Mike Lee, the Subway guy who went to Notre Dame and is thus kinda famous because his squeaky-clean image makes him a pearly white marketer’s dream, will be part of the HBO pay-per-view undercard for all of those reasons on September 15, and now has an opponent named.”
Anyone who reported this said the same thing.
The UFC absolutely has equivalents to this, they have shit fighters all the time fill in that don’t even make tv and they still at that time were making a minimum of 6k for losing. You act like last minute replacement fighters that are shit who no one ever even heard of in their lives and never fought in the UFC again, are any different.
What I was referring to with the TUF Finales was the fact that they are the lowest profile fighters- literally minor league level fighters and they still even at the time when Harness fought were making 6k/6k and if they won bonuses could clear 112k. No one in the UFC would ever make 2k on even so much as a prelim fight for the lowest profile card of the year, yet on a major boxing ppv, a main card fighter made 2k. That is insanely pathetic and shameful.
You just compared the Contender from a decade ago’s payouts to what a TUF winner won, without realizing that the Contender was on NBC and lost tens of millions of dollars. You can’t fault the UFC/Spike/FS1 for not being retarded like the Contender production and NBC.
Also, the purses for UFC fighters are lower for the big stars because they make the overwhelming majority of their money from ppv. Seeing how no one other than 2-3 boxers even fight on ppv, the payouts are different.
Why are you so retarded?
http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/9/15/3339142/chavez-jr-vs-martinez-results-live-stream-nelson-omotoso-medina-undercard-hbo-boxing-news
Here were the pre ppv results:
Willie Nelson UD-10 John Jackson
Michael Medina UD-8 James Winchester
Wale Omotoso UD-8 Daniel Sostre
Diego Brandao made 96k for the TUF 14 finale, not including his additional 100k contract with that win.
http://www.fightofthenight.com/news/tuf-14-finale-bonus-awards
D with long paragraphs again hahahaha….
I love all this majical money that UFC fighters are supposedley “making” behind the scenes but no third party source (forbes magazine, etc) can confirm this majical “upside” money. Dana white has admitted himself that the biggest paycheck they ever to give a fighter fo a single fight was 5 million dollars and that was there biggest. so so sad
the reason why fighter pay isnt disclosed is because the sports world would laugh in the ufc’s face. the numbers will show that the UFC is really not that popular. its over leveraged nonsense and poor management (gyms, bobble head dolls)
I love the fact that this idiot doesn’t know how to spell magical and the fact that he thinks contracts that are disclosed in court are invalid.
Fagbusiness loves tranny promoters.
people that correct internet spelling are moronic. Its a forum where people type with their index finger while eating a hoagie. i just recall delahoya wearing fishnet not many (trannies) he did this while banging female models
HAHAHAHA!! Nice try to spin it retard. That wasn’t a typo, j sounds like g. You just can’t spell you idiot.
Yeah, I forgot De La Hoya was also a fag. I’m sure he’s your hero. Boxing, the sport of transsexuals.
D in panic retard mode!! bahahhaha its so pathetic watching a desperate loser trying to bail water out of a ship that is sinking fast! Everyone at zuffa is in a serious panic mode hahahah
It’s like watching a retard go into convulsions every time Sal comments.
Paul Harness?
D what are u even talking about?
He never fought on the main card, he fought on the undercard.
Regardless hes ranked #616 in the super middleweight division (168lbs)
At 170lbs the 600th ranked mma fighter is some guy named Bruno Hulk.
I bet he dont make 2k a fight
The Gayest, you are retarded.
I’m sure every fighter is well aware what others make,its up to each of them to seal there own deals.A few fighters could stand to make more but lets not forget,some have ppv cuts,evens a half a dollar per ticket can pump a lot of money into your bank account.I am stumped by boxing,how can one fight generate 100 million dollars for one man?