MMA Junkie reports the final Strikeforce salaries for Saturday’s event. Josh Barnett topped the list of earners with $250,000 Via MMA Junkie as released by the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission: Tarec Saffiedine: $39,000 (includes $19,500 win bonus) def. Nate Marquardt: $40,000 Daniel Cormier: $120,000 (includes $60,000 win bonus) def. Dion Staring: $8,000 Josh Barnett: $250,000 […]
Benson Henderson gets new deal
Benson Henderson has received a new 8 fight deal with the UFC. The current lightweight UFC champion tweeted thanks to his manager and lawyer for hammering out the details last night. No monetary terms of the deal have been released as the information was just passed along by the fighter via twitter. Henderson had been […]
The Wrestling Post – TNA goes to just 4 PPVs a year
Spike TV looking to air kickboxing
MMA Fighting reports that Spike TV is looking into airing kickboxing as a way to cross promote TNA Wrestling and Bellator. Spike TV may look to the Glory promotion as a kickboxing possibility as its partnership with K-1 is over. Although K-1 and Spike TV announced a relationship this past summer, due to poor viewership […]
More on the Bellator v. Alvarez lawsuit
MMA Payout has obtained a copy of the Bellator-Eddie Alvarez lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. The Complaint and Exhibits are interesting pieces which reveal the negotiations between the two sides as well as the inference that the UFC may be pulled in as well. The Complaint pleads two causes of […]