WEC 50: Cruz vs. Benavidez Post-Fight Press Conference
by Nick Thomas on Aug 19, 2010 8:34 AM EDT
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$10,000 fight-night bonuses:
- Fight of the Night: Scott Jorgensen vs. Brad Pickett
- Submission of the Night: Anthony Pettis
- Knockout of the Night: Maciej Jewtuszko
WEC 50 salaries from the Nevada State Athletic Commission:
Dominick Cruz: $22,000 ($11,000 w) vs. Joseph Benavidez: $17,500HT: heavy.com
Shane Roller: $16,000 vs. Anthony Pettis: $12,000 ($6,000 w)
Cub Swanson: $11,000 vs. Chad Mendes: $11,000 ($5,500 w)
Scott Jorgensen: $25,000 ($12,500 w) vs. Brad Pickett: $5,000
Bart Palaszewski: $16,000 ($8,000 w) vs. Zack Micklewright: $3,000
Anthony Njokuani: $7,000 vs. Maciej Jewtuszko: $6,000 ($3,000 w)
Javier Vazquez: $16,000 ($8,000 w) vs. Mackens Semerzier: $4,000
Ricardo Lamas: $14,000 ($7,000 w) vs. David Jansen: $4,000
Bryan Caraway: $4,000 vs. Fredson Paixao: $6,000 ($3,000 w)
Danny Castillo: $19,000 ($9,500 w) vs. Dustin Poirier: $3,000
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WTF?
Was this mocked up and accidentally posted early?
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These usually pop-up a few hours before the event.
Which will lead to the comedy of people posting predictions and then people going all “WTF” after the event is over.
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by Scott Schroeder on Aug 18, 2010 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Derek Suboticki on Aug 19, 2010 2:20 AM EDT up reply actions
great fights as usual
tonight was no different
"How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
That flying omoplata that Cruz used to win was sick. Plus, a 140-catchweight fight between him and Aldo? Sick.
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Its going to be a toss up between Cruz's flying omoplata and Roller's gogoplata for submission of the night.
"Referees, be sure to step in and stop the fight on time tomorrow, because I might get carried away in the moment and my many punches may end up destroying my opponent." - Tatsuya "CRUSHER" Kawajiri
Salaries are interesting
I briefly trained at the gym Javier Vazquez train(ed) BJJ at, and while he’s making 8k/8k to fight in WEC, the dude was doing really well for himself. He lived in a nice area, had a nice car, wore nice clothes. It was apparent that the guy was making decent money.
Puts some perspective on some of these fight purses we see on here.
It's a joke..
Purely speculation, but it’s a joke to me that the champ (Cruz) is making less to show than the challenger. My reasoning is that Benavidez makes more from being a part of Team Alpha Male (Urijah’s camp, WEC’s posterboy)
HUH?
why would Joe be getting paid more than Dominic…? that’s a good agent for ya…and a good healthy dose of favoritism to alpha-male.
the heck
i think i made more money when i was a starving college boy
To the above three posters: It’s called signing a contract and being locked in to that set amount per fight. When his contract is up, he will get paid more. Its that simple. Why don’t people understand this? This is Cruz’s 6th fight in the WEC, and 4 or 6 fights seems to be the amount of fights they usually sign contracts for. This could be his last fight on his contract. Look out of Cruz’s next fight’s salary.
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by ChiCubs23 on Aug 18, 2010 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that
Roller is making more than the champ?
Epic KO, epic fight, meh fight, epic finish to great fight, and sloppy but really close fight
WEC 50 was very good but I liked 49 and 48 better.
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
I'll probably have to watch Benavidez/Cruz again even though I didn't enjoy it
But I think takedowns have WAY too much weight on judge’s scorecards.
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
by SSreporters on Aug 19, 2010 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions
huh
Well what do you know about that?
"You stick a microphone in a guy's face and he calls out anybody but the champion, and Joe Silva should fax him a pink slip right then." -- Chael Sonnen.
FOTN: Jorgensen/Pickett
SOTN: Pettis vs. Roller
KOTN: Jewtuszko vs. Njokuani
Nick Garcia is the Brian Russell of MLS but 10 times worse.
People need to stop feeling sorry for Cruz he’s doing just fine, I swear we need a disclamer everytime reported salaries come out because for the most part they are uselss.
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