Although Jose Aldo will not be in the main event for UFC 189, Dana White is discussing the ex-Featherweight champion in his interviews. On ESPN Audio, White indicated that Aldo would have made “close to $4 million” on Saturday night.
White talked to Ryen Russillo on his radio show Tuesday to promote UFC 189. Russillo brought up the $4 million figure and White agreed. Obviously, the number was brought up before the interview.
Aldo’s last official reported payout was $120,000 to win and $120,000 to show ($240,000 total) at UFC 156 against Frankie Edgar in Las Vegas in February 2013. Aldo fought three more times after UFC 156 so his compensation could have grown.
Payout Perspective:
It’s clear that the “official” monetary figures divulged to athletic commissions do not include the overall payouts to fighters. This is always explicitly spelled out as some fighters receive discretionary bonuses and others receive compensation tied to the number of PPV buys. Clearly, Aldo was receiving more than his purse for UFC 189. It’s interesting that White is making public how much Aldo was to be making for the fight. Usually, the UFC does not provide specifics on how much fighters make especially when, like Aldo, he will not make this money. White did state that Aldo would have fought if he could have fought.
bahahaha yea sure!!!
bahaha maybe on a 2 million ppv but we all know thats bullshit!!! any more bullshit before sat Dana???????
Sal smells like an outhouse.
Me clean trying to make mma seem on the same level of boxing. Keep trying Dana, your fighters are waking up to the monopoly and the fans are leaving, this isn’t 2010
who gives a fuck if he makes 4 million. thats shit for 1.5 million ppv buys. cotto makes 15 million agaisnt canelo.
Hahahahaha……pathetic already
Fagbusiness, you lie about everything, either that or you are brain dead.
No one said 1.5m would be required for that. Aldo is also the B in this fight, not the A.
Cotto also will not make that much money from the fight with Canelo directly from the fight. That is delusional. The split would not be in his favor, his contract with Roc Nation also involves tons of promotional work.
Also Fagbusiness, you’re right mma isn’t on par with boxing, it is above it. This also isn’t 2010, because if it was, the UFC wouldn’t be on network tv getting paid 100m plus per year. HAHAHA!
$4M is a great payday no matter how you look at it. Broner and Porter got $1.35M and $1M respectively to fight each other. Yes, Cotto makes more. So do Mayweather, Pacquiao and (probably) Canelo. But $4M is a big fucking payday regardless.
Canelo Alvarez isn’t impressed LOL
Aldo is a 3rd rate ufc draw and has never scene 4 million or will ever see it for a fight in his life. Dana likes to insult the intelligence of fans and its easy to fool a moron like D!
Saldaqueef sets the bar for incoherent, ranting, retards.
Seen. Haha.
Salda, you have no idea what you’re talking about. As usual. That was going to be a career high payout for the guy with salary, PPV cut & sponsorships. You have no basis for what you’re saying other than your knee-jerk hatred for all things MMA.
Well first, D, you said you dont believe the words of promoters, so you shouldn’t stand by this bullshit that Aldo wouldve made $4mil.
Having said that, $4mil is a great payday for any combat sport and for any participant not named Mayweather, Pacquiao, Alvarez, Cotto, Klitschko, Marquez or Bradley.
Those guys make more than $5mil a fight for the most part.
I will also say that its bullshit that Aldo is the B side when hes been a dominant champion, and some red headed fuck comes across the pond and hypes him self up to the A side.
But yea $4mil is bs. If hes making $4mil then what is Conor making?
I don’t believe promoters and I’m not basing my statements on anything that Dana White was saying you mutant. I’m just going based on what fighters have said/contracts that were disclosed have proven in the past.
You are a moron: Marquez does not make 4m per fight. That is a delusion. He has made 4m 3x in the past. His last fight he made 1.4m. Nice try idiot. Bradley also doesn’t make 4m every fight, his last two fights he made far less than that. Up until his mid 30s Klitschko’s purses were in the 1-2m purse range and even now, most of the time, he only makes over 4m because of charity purses and tv contracts that involve promotional work. The only way any boxer makes over 2-3m for a fight is by fighting on ppv and we know how few fighters fight on ppv.
Aldo is an A????? Being the A, does not mean you are the higher skilled or ranked fighter. It just means who is selling the fight and who is getting paid more. McGregor is completely selling this fight on his own. That is why it is clear this will still be a big ppv without Aldo.
McGregor is making at least 4m if this ppv did what White was expecting over 1m.
You are such a nutjob retard.
Also Cotto does not make over 4m per fight and Canelo’s last fight he made less than 4m.
Truth be told, the only fighters in boxing who have consistently made over 4m per fight consistently are Mayweather and Pacquaio and both of them are retiring within a year.
But they’ve all made five million or more before no MMA fighters making that at all
Because they all co promote their fights you stupid fucking idiot. MMA fighters do not. The boxing events are not drawing more revenue as a whole, the few big name boxers that make that money invest their own money into the events therefor draw a higher cut of the revenue. They are also overpaid and this is what has been damaging the sport for years.
Because they all co promote their fights you stupid fucking idiot. MMA fighters do not. The boxing events are not drawing more revenue as a whole, the few big name boxers that make that money invest their own money into the events therefor draw a higher cut of the revenue. They are also overpaid and this is what has been damaging the sport for years.
to all those saying it’s not possible:
His purse would be about 500.00 without win bonus but with pay per view incentive.
The cheapest PPV option was $50 x 1 million viewers = $50 million for UFC
He was expected to make $3 per buy
3 x 1000000 = 3 million dollars
3 million + $500k purse + sponsorships + most likely FOTN / POTN bonus = about $4 million
to all those saying it’s not possible:
His purse would be about 500.00 without win bonus but with pay per view incentive.
The cheapest PPV option was $50 x 1 million viewers = $50 million for UFC
He was expected to make $3 per buy
3 x 1000000 = 3 million dollars
3 million + $500k purse + sponsorships + most likely FOTN / POTN bonus = about $4 million
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Try again, Anna. Almost none of what you typed is accurate.
Unofficial purse from 179 had Aldo with $120K show, $120K win and $50K bonus. $290K. He might get $200K win, $200K show. $400K.
Based on standard UFC PPV bonus contracts which kicks in at 200,000 buys, Aldo most likely would make at one million buys
200K-400K buys at $1 = $200K
400K-600K buys at $2 = $400K
600K plus buys at $2.50 = $1 million
$2 million in purse and bonuses.
Undisclosed bonuses and other incentives plus sponsorships, $3m is more likely, $4 would be upper end.
FYI, over 50% of PPV revenues go to distribution, not Zuffa. $25 million to the UFC, not $50m.