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Marquardt leads UFC Fight Night 96 Payouts

October 5, 2016 by Jason Cruz 2 Comments

MMA Junkie reports the salaries from UFC Fight Night 96.  The official payouts were disclosed by the Oregon State Athletic Commission.

Via MMA Junkie:

John Lineker: $72,000 (Lineker forfeited 20 percent of his original $40,000 show money to Dodson for missing weight)
def. John Dodson: $38,000 (includes 8,000 from Lineker’s show money)

Alex Oliveira: $43,200 (includes $24,000 win bonus. Oliveira forfeited 20 percent of his original $24,000 show money to Brooks for missing weight)
def. Will Brooks: $57,800 (includes $4,800 from Oliveira’s show money)

Zak Ottow: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Josh Burkman: $54,000

Brandon Moreno: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Louis Smolka: $32,000

Luis Henrique da Silva: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Joachim Christensen: $10,000

Andre Fili: $39,200 (includes $18,000 win bonus and $3,200 from Dias’ show money)
def. Hacran Dias: $12,800 (Dias forfeited 20 percent of his original $16,000 show money to Fili for missing weight)

Shamil Abdurakhimov: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Walt Harris: $12,000

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Keita Nakamura: $19,000

Nate Marquardt: $112,000 (includes $56,000 win bonus)
def. Tamdan McCrory: $15,000

Ion Cutelaba: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Jonathan Wilson: $12,000

Curtis Blaydes: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Cody East: $10,000

Ketlen Vieira: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Kelly Faszholz: $10,000

Payout Perspective:

If not for missing weight, Lineker would have made $40K/$40K while his opponent, Dodson made $30K to show and likely another $30K win bonus.  Interesting to note that Will Brooks is already making $53,000 to show.  He made $50K/$50K in his UFC debut this past July at the TUF 23 Finale.  For being a veteran, Nate Marquardt made the most with $112,000 not to mention his Reebok payout of $20,000.

Filed Under: payouts, Reebok, UFC

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  1. Wil says

    October 6, 2016 at 3:34 am

    I don’t know why anyone would go into mma with pay like that for professional sports, mma has to be the lowest paying of the pro sports in the USA. But then again I guess there are not a lot of pro sports for small guys

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  2. Cutch says

    October 6, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    There is more than 6 US sports you know, some pay way lower than $10,000 + $2,500 which is the lowest a UFC fighter can get with a loss.

    Jon Dodson was probably the biggest name on the card, the cars didn’t do a big gate or rating.

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