UFC Purses & Salaries exposed

[Fenom]

I thought this was pretty interesting.......i heard somewhere that they get paid peanuts compared to boxers and i guess its true.

This is from UFC 76 (9.26.07):

Keith Jardine ($14,000) def. Chuck Liddell ($500,000)

Forrest Griffin ($44,000) def. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua ($150,000)

Jon Fitch ($44,000) def. Diego Sanchez ($22,000)

Lyoto Machida ($50,000) def. Kazuhiro Nakamura ($20,000)

Tyson Griffin ($24,000) def. Thiago Tavares ($9,000)

Rich Clementi ($24,000) def. Anthony Johnson ($5,000)

Jeremy Stephens ($6,000) def. Diego Saraiva ($3,000)

Christian Wellisch ($14,000) def. Scott Junk ($4,000)

Matt Wiman ($16,000) def. Michihiro Omigawa ($5,000)

thoughts??

[El Dominicano]

I thought this was pretty interesting.......i heard somewhere that they get paid peanuts compared to boxers and i guess its true.

This is from UFC 76 (9.26.07):

Keith Jardine ($14,000) def. Chuck Liddell ($500,000)

Forrest Griffin ($44,000) def. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua ($150,000)

Jon Fitch ($44,000) def. Diego Sanchez ($22,000)

Lyoto Machida ($50,000) def. Kazuhiro Nakamura ($20,000)

Tyson Griffin ($24,000) def. Thiago Tavares ($9,000)

Rich Clementi ($24,000) def. Anthony Johnson ($5,000)

Jeremy Stephens ($6,000) def. Diego Saraiva ($3,000)

Christian Wellisch ($14,000) def. Scott Junk ($4,000)

Matt Wiman ($16,000) def. Michihiro Omigawa ($5,000)

thoughts??

Lol Mayweather made 3mill fighting Chop Chop and from what I remember...Chop Chop made more then everyone on that list except for Chuck. Damn! It ain't worth having your hands, arms, ankle broken and getting stitches for a few Gs

[ThugNificent]

UHHHHHH... yea rahman made 13,000 years before he fought lennox lewis. Them no gettin money n!ggas!!

[TRAVI$]

Dana White is a money robbing bastard who will eventually be the reason for the UFC's downfall.

[Fenom]

UHHHHHH... yea rahman made 13,000 years before he fought lennox lewis. Them no gettin money n!ggas!!

Dana White is a money robbing bastard who will eventually be the reason for the UFC's downfall.

exactly what i was thinking...........if im not mistaken Margarito made $1.5 Mill for his last fight alone, not sure what Cotto made.........this whole card put together is only $954,000

Boxers make the real money and Danas robbing these poor guys

[HotSizzle]

And they were saying if boxing needs someone like dana I don't think even don kin rips his fighters off like that lol

[Unknown Champ]

http://www.sports-tube.com/watch/4f8...ans---KNOCKOUT

[Fenom]

http://www.sports-tube.com/watch/4f8...ans---KNOCKOUT

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[Kakutogi-Gumi]

Gotta remember there's a lot of under the table money as well.

Reason being that Dana doesn't like price competitions.