Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale Awards and Bonuses

by Anton Tabuena on Dec 14, 2008 12:54 PM EST Comment 11 comments

Ultimate Fighter 8 Fight of the Night

– Junie Browning and Dave Kaplan

Ultimate Fighter 8 Knockout of the Night
– Anthony Johnson

Ultimate Fighter 8 Submission of the Night
– Krzysztof Soszynski

All awards include a $25,000 bonus for each fighter

Junie Browning and Dave Kaplan got fight of the night honors after a two round fight ending in an armbar win by Junie Browning. Although the fight lasted only a round and a half, it was enough to get both fighters the $25,000 bonus. Junie, showing lots of maturity since being in the TUF house, apologized to Frank Mir and his team of coaches after the fight.

Anthony Johnson's crocop-like head kick avenged his earlier loss to Kevin Burns and earned him the $25,000 Knockout of the night bonus.

Krzysztof Soszynski earned the Submission of the Night Bonus by pulling off a second round kimura that left Shane Primm in pain well after he tapped.

HT: mmaweekly

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TUF 8 Finale salaries: Gouveia top earner, cast winners earn $16K
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Dec 14, 2008 at 3:55 am ET
Despite losing 20 percent of his purse after failing to make the middleweight division’s 186-pound limit, Wilson Gouveia was the top earner at “The Ultimate Fighter 8” finale.

The evening’s salary figures were released overnight by the Nevada State Athletic Commission to Sherdog.com.

The total payroll for the event, which took place at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, was $289,000.

Gouveia earned $36,800 in his first-round win over Jason MacDonald. The total included a purse penalty of $9,200. MacDonald took home $35,200 after the payout from his opponent.

The evening’s 16 participating cast members earned base salaries of $8,000. Winners of the eight bouts between TUF 8 participants also earned an $8,000 bonus. Season champions Efrain Escudero and Ryan Bader also earned coveted “six-figure contracts” with the UFC.

The full paydays from The Ultimate Fighter 8 Finale included:

Efrain Escudero: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Phillipe Nover: $8,000

Ryan Bader: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Vinny Magalhaes: $8,000

Wilson Gouveia: $36,800 ($18,400 win bonus)
def. Joe Stevenson: $35,200 (includes $9,200 of Gouveia’s purse)

Anthony Johnson: $18,000 ($9,000 win bonus)
def. Kevin Burns: $7,000

Junie Browning: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Dave Kaplan: $8,000

Krzysztof Soszynski: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Shane Primm: $8,000

Eliot Marshall: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Jules Bruchez: $8,000

Shane Nelson: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. George Roop: $8,000

Tom Lawlor: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Kyle Kingsbury: $8,000

Roli Delgado: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. John Polakowski: $8,000

(from http://mmajunkie.com/news/13475/tuf-8-finale-salaries-gouveia-top-earner-cast-winners-earn-16k.mma)

by mythbuster on Dec 14, 2008 9:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

oh oh...

didn’t mean to paste the whole thing, just the salaries. Too early in the morning for me…

by mythbuster on Dec 14, 2008 9:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wilson Gouveia: $36,800 ($18,400 win bonus)
def. Joe Stevenson: $35,200 (includes $9,200 of Gouveia’s purse)

????

by szucconi on Dec 14, 2008 9:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

lol

I didn’t even notice that. Guess it was a bad typo, but seems they fixed it.

by mythbuster on Dec 14, 2008 11:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

At least JMac gets a piece of the win bonus, too. Fucking fat Gouveia.

by subo on Dec 14, 2008 2:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Junie and Kaplan was fight of the night? What the hell?

by cyph on Dec 14, 2008 11:02 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

…that’s a load.

AJ/Burns was at least as entertaining but A) I’m sure they want to justify Junie as an “exciting fighter” and B) they don’t want to give AJ a second bonus.

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by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 14, 2008 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

They might (probably will) mention he won FOTN on air sometime, but it will go largely unknown to the masses. I think option B is where most of the reason resides. They can always give Johnson more on the back-end, but want to make sure others get the OFN love.

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by Eugene Schelfaut on Dec 14, 2008 1:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’ll be honest, it was the most entertaining to me. Both the Burns/Johnson and Escudero/Nover fights had large instances of people sitting in guard for long stretches of rounds. To me, sitting in guard or half guard throwing ineffective strikes is just not exciting for me.

by iiowyn on Dec 14, 2008 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think Dana knows what everyone thinks of Junie and is just pushing him to antagonise us. Rogan and Goldy also tightly embraced Junie’s testes the entire fight too. I think the Efrain/Nover fight was more exciting because the underdog figured out the weakness of the guy who was supposed to thrash him and exploited it. Kind of like a 1/2 scale Couture/Sylvia.

by Ubernoober on Dec 14, 2008 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs