UFC on Versus Salaries: Cheick Kongo Tops List With $110,000
Jon Jones ($40,000 - $20,000 win) def. Brandon Vera ($60,000)
Junior Dos Santos ($70,000 - $35,000 win) def. Gabriel Gonzaga ($67,000)
Cheick Kongo ($110,000 - $55,000 win) def. Paul Buentello ($40,000)
Alessio Sakara ($42,000 - $21,000 win) def. James Irvin ($20,000)
Clay Guida ($50,000 - $25,000 win) def. Shannon Gugerty ($9,000)
Vladimir Matyushenko ($56,000 - $28,000 win) def. Eliott Marshall ($10,000)
Darren Elkins ($12,000 - $6,000 win) def. Duane Ludwig ($12,000)
John Howard ($26,000 - $13,000 win) def. Daniel Roberts ($6,000)
Brendan Schaub ($20,000 - $10,000 win) def. Chase Gormley ($10,000)
Mike Pierce ($16,000 - $8,000 win) def. John Paulino ($6,000)
Jason Brilz ($18,000 - $9,000 win) def. Eric Schafer ($13,000)
The total payroll was $713,000 with gross ticket sales of $568,125.
This does not include the $50,000 bonuses to Clay Guida 'Submission of the Night' and Jon Jones, John Howard and Junior Dos Santos for 'KO of the Night'.
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Waiting for the flood of JONES/JDS ARE UNDERPAID WTF
Since people don’t seem to understand that not everyone reworks their contract after every fight.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
by lowellthehammer on Mar 25, 2010 11:59 AM EDT reply actions
yep
Was about to make this exact post.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 25, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
for a foreigner JDS is paid pretty high
they usually keep the given salaries for the foreigners real low for tax reasons and all that bs
bones deserves more though
Bones has already made $90 this year, plus any sponsorship income...
Not bad for a 22 year old college drop out IMO. One or two more wins and a new contract will have him sitting pretty.
Jon Jones and Dos Santos
Deserve much more money than that.
by Major B on Mar 25, 2010 12:06 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
so
i know there are other sources of revenue, but does this mean they should state a loss due to the fact they grossed $568,125 but paid out $713,000 not including the knockout/submission bonuses of $200,000.
I guess that depends on what that were paid for add space and what Versus is paying for braodcasting rights.
by truck on Mar 25, 2010 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
plus other revenue streams like merchandise
Even if this did take a loss (total) I think Zuffa is looking at the big picture of get exposure to VS and wiggle into a potential major network.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 25, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep. This one could very well have been looked at as an investment.
Merch sales probably wouldn’t have been huge, because the corwd was relatively small, but I don’t think Dana is upset with the numbers one way or anoother. I think the venue sold out and Dana would have known the max possible gate. He still chose to give out extra bonuses as well.
Why such a small venue?
"The moment you stop thinking you're the best, it's time for you to get out the game." -'King' Mo Lawal
Merchandise!!!
Advertising, Sponsors paying the ufc to sponsor fighters . . . . . the list goes on, they ended the day in the black
by TheBiggertheyare... on Mar 25, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
It's not how much they lost..
it’s about how big their profit is..
by Anton Tabuena on Mar 25, 2010 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions
UFC doesn’t need to state anything about whether or not an individual event was profitable. If they lose a little bit of money on UFC on Versus, but then make tens of millions on UFC 111 six days later, that’s a pretty important way to look at how all the pieces fit together.
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Nice
Man the UFC sure shelled out for this one.
i can see complaining when fighters are getting 3k/3k, but what fighters are getting now is decent.
i didn’t know sakara was on 21k/21k
by TheBiggertheyare... on Mar 25, 2010 12:13 PM EDT reply actions
These are pretty good payouts. No main carder was getting less than 20k/20k, and the guys with relatively few fights in the UFC (Jones, JDS) are getting paid well for their experience level.
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exactly. if anything, Buentello is being overpaid for what he brings to the table. I’m not a fan of his but I’m kind of surprised Guida only makes 25/25 seeing as how popular he is with the fans and how many tough fights he’s been in
He probably got a raise before the Velasquez fight...
Kongo is a a big imposing dude. I know number of people who still like to watch him fight.
Yeah I'm one of them.
The guy is never going to be a world beater but he reminds me of a good friend of mine (who actually fights now) as far as size, build, etc…
by Brandon Starr on Mar 25, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
What’s wrong with that?
Maybe his agent his better than his wrestling coach, but he is entertaining and got a pretty technical stand up, that’s good enough as long as he doesn’t face top tier fighters.
"You hit too hard, too hard, too hard..."
“Maybe his agent is better than his wrestling coach”
Good line.
by HarmlessNinja on Mar 25, 2010 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Compare this to the payouts from PPV cards 4 years ago. This was a good payout for a free card on a crappy network, the sport has come a long way as far a fighter pay is concerned.
UFC 58: USA vs Canada
March 4, 2006
Georges St-Pierre: $48,000
Rich Franklin: $32,000
Nathan Marquardt: $30,000
BJ Penn: $25,000
Tom Murphy: $10,000
Mike Swick: $10,000
David Loiseau: $9,000
Spencer Fisher: $8,000
Yves Edwards: $8,000
Rob Macdonald: $5,000
Joe Doerksen: $5,000
Jason Lambert: $4,000
Mark Hominick: $4,000
Sam Stout: $4,000
Icho Larenas: $3,000
Steve Vigneault: $2,000
Total Fighter Payouts: $207,000
UFC 59: Reality Check
April 15, 2006
Tito Ortiz: $200,000
Andrei Arlovski: $90,000
Tim Sylvia: $90,000
Evan Tanner: $40,000
Karo Parisyan: $16,000
Sean Sherk: $16,000
Forrest Griffin: $16,000
David Terrell: $12,000
Nick Diaz: $10,000
Jeff Monson: $10,000
Jason Lambert: $8,000
Thiago Alves: $8,000
Justin Levens: $5,000
Nick Thompson: $5,000
Marcio Cruz: $5,000
Derrick Noble: $3,000
Scott Smith: $3,000
Terry Martin: $2,000
Total Fighter Payouts: $539,000
UFC 60
May 27, 2006
Assuerio Silva : $8,000
Brandon Vera: $16,000
John Alessio: $3,000
Diego Sanchez: $12,000
Dean Lister: $5,000
Alessio Sakara: $10,000
Royce Gracie: $400,000
Matt Hughes: $55,000
Rick Davis: $2,000
Melvin Guillard: $5,000
Fabiano Scherner: $3,000
Gabriel Gonzaga: $5,000
Matt Wiman: $3,000
Spencer Fisher: $7,000
Chael Sonnan: $5,000
Jeremy Horn: $35,000
Joe Riggs: $12,000
Mike Swick: $7,000
Total Payouts: $593,000
by who me on Mar 25, 2010 12:51 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
And in case anyone missed it, yes David Loiseau made $9k for a co-headline world title fight on PPV, same amount as Shannon Gugerty made on the undercard of this free on tv show. The sport is come a long long way in the last 4 years.
by who me on Mar 25, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Gabe Gonzaga who fought on UFC 60 and VS
His pay has gone up 13×...and UFC 60 he won. So technically you’re looking at a 26x pay increase?
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 25, 2010 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Yea there are several fighters on the Versus card that fought on one of those three to compare with, heck Alessio Sakara hasn’t gone anywhere really as far as his career goes but his pay sure has improved drastically.
This is why I don’t involve myself when people talk about how pay doesn’t compare to other pro sports. In four years to have your pay increase 26x, the growth is going to be there.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 25, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Very good point... The pay on the bigger cards usually ends up being over $1,000,000 now.
…and sometimes well over that… Salaries have more than doubled in the last number of years. As MMA grows salaries will as well.
by truck on Mar 25, 2010 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The honor of fighting Minowaman is its own reward. RECOGNIZE.
by JRN on Mar 25, 2010 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
wtf is that, dirty fighter like KONGO gets 6 figures? i am counting down the days until he is BOOTED from the UFC.
how you gone hate on somebody paper stacking
he beat the hell out of paul and got that 55,000 win bonus thats how he got 6 figures. kanodogg you the real definition of a hater you just waiting to see kongo fall off
by staytrue2010 on Mar 25, 2010 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
i hate him cause he’s a dirty fighter brah, knees to the nuts, kneeing a grounded opponent in the head, etc. etc.
remember the al turk fight, when al turk threw a kick and inadvertantly hit kongo in the nads, so kongo clinched with turk and kneed him in the nuts as hard as he could? how the hell does he not get a DQ for an intentional nutshot. that’s why i hate him.. he’s a fraud.
hells yeah i hate kongo.
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