Gilbert Melendez, Gegard Mousasi Top Lightly-Attended Strikeforce Event Payouts
by Josh Nason on Dec 21, 2011 2:00 PM EST
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Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez and former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi each made $150,000 for their efforts last Saturday at the promotion's event in San Diego, each nearly topping what the show generated in ticket sales.
The California State Athletic Commission released the numbers for the entire show Tuesday and MMA Fighting reported on them, revealing a paltry attendance of 2995 and a final gate at $154,075.
From high to low, here's the breakdown of who earned what Saturday. Like always, these don't include discretionary bonuses given by Zuffa:
- Gilbert Melendez: $150,000 (no win bonus)
- Gegard Mousasi: $150,000 (no win bonus)
- Cristiane Santos: $66,000 ($33,000 win bonus)
- K.J. Noons: $65,000 ($30,000 win bonus)
- Jorge Masvidal: $23,000
- Billy Evangelista: $20,000
- Caros Fodor: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
- Ovince St. Preux: $17,000
- Roger Bowling: $14,000 ($7,000 win bonus)
- Devin Cole: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus)
- Justin Wilcox: $12,000
- Hiroko Yamanaka: $8,000
- Eddie Mendez: $6,000 ($3,000 win bonus)
- Herman Terrado: $6,000 ($3000 win bonus)
- Gabriel Salinas: $3,000
- Fernando Gonzalez: $3,000
- Chris Brown: $3,000
- Jerron Peoples: $2,000
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DAMN!!!
Sauce is gettin paid like mothafucka!! I love the dude but no way is he worth as much as….that!
Get that paper Moose!
dude doesnt really care
"I have smoked weed with alot of UFC champions" - Joe Rogan
"Você ta fudido. Se vai levar muita porrada, ta ligado?" - Anderson Silva
Not even 3k in attendance.
ouch.
"If you think, you're late. If you're late, you muscle. If you muscle, you get tired. If you tired, you die. When you die is when you tap..."
-Saulo Ribeiro
Moose has said in the past that he wanted to retire before 30, and damn, he might be able to do so comfortably at this rate.
Makes you wonder
What’s he spending all this money on? If he did spend it towards higher level training it’d pay off in the long run. Or does dude just have debt for days we don’t know about? Also, War Sauce!
he prob just has a swimming pool full of money
and is willing to ride it out fighting people not as good as him
not a bad call really, getting punched in the face hurts
"I have smoked weed with alot of UFC champions" - Joe Rogan
"Você ta fudido. Se vai levar muita porrada, ta ligado?" - Anderson Silva
Depending on where he's planning on retiring. 150K is a lot for a fight but not a lot for your future. Think about all his expenses and then also think about taxes.
Fighters are independent contractors. Taxes will eat up a good chunk of it. He’ll get paid like a really good surgeon every year as long as he fights well. Long term when he starts to lose hell make less and less and eventually be broke unless he manages his money well. Basically fighting and making that kind of money is like getting a ton of money up front then getting little money later on in life. Also i dont lump into this category people like GSP, Brock, Anderson etc. Those fighters will have long term wealth from fighting, sponsors, commercials and wrestling.
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
Taxes indeed.
It’s interesting he didn’t work out a deal with Zuffa like other foreign fighters. I’m not exactly sure how it works, but I’ve seen some incredibly small disclosed purses for foreign fighters, and it was explained that it was for tax reasons, and that the bulk of their pay was not in disclosed salary. Wish I could remember the source…
Yeah that happened a lot in Strikeforce. Zuffa is definitely trying to show how its all legit, no tax evasion issues here
Marloes Coenen I believe was one example where she was paid like 2k and everyone went crazy saying how cheap SF was.
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
True, but he gets basically all of the money not lost to taxes, there’s no camp for him to pay. Fight two or three times a year making sums like that, plus additional k-1 fights in Japan, and you could retire with a lesser job as a trainer or somesuch pretty early on.
He keeps going back, you have to think he’s getting some return for it. Mousasi doesn’t seem like the type to fight for the sake of fighting, he wants $.
K-1 still holds some relevance in the world of combat sports. I think a lot of the fighters get paid here and there and not full amounts but K-1 is the place to fight for kickboxing
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
I believe he's suing K-1 for his $$$
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 5:12 PM EST up reply actions
K-1 ain't payin lol. DREAM eh i dunno. He has had camps before. He is a red devil fighter and has trained with GG i believe. He right now has 1 trainer and thats about all.
It all adds up. We see that number and to us it may seem like a lot. I figure hes making about 200k a year when all is said and done.
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
Showtime pays them a fee. I think maybe around 700k per show. I think the previous contract was like 25 million for 3 years.
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Hard to say if they do or not.
It’s a $580,000 payroll against $154,075 in gate revenue. Their TV deal was only paying around $8.3 million per year (http://mmapayout.com/2011/02/business-journal-strikeforce-makes-millions-on-mixed-martial-arts/), and the amount was supposedly decreased in the new deal (probably due to the reduced number of events called for by the new contract). They ran 16 shows in 2011, so that would amount to $518,750 per show. 8 of those shows were “Challengers” events, which have extremely low payrolls, but also abysmal gates. Basically, Strikeforce receives revenue from license fees, site fees for events, and tickets. They spend money on fighter payrolls, production, marketing, and salaries for employees. I’m guessing it’s run in a way that turns a very small profit. It’d be hard to imagine Zuffa would’ve pushed for a new deal if it the organization lost money on each event. Overall, I’m sure that Strikeforce lost money this year, due to Fedor and Dan Henderson’s salaries. I still don’t understand why Lorenzo of all people negotiated such huge salaries for Fedor vs Henderson.
$8,000 bucks for Yamanaka?
Why bother showing up at all?
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
True enough
Still some shit all things considered. Poor women of MMA who aren’t gorgeous babes or soul devouring beasts.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Dec 21, 2011 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
Most men don't make that in their first fight in Zuffa
That’s nothing to sneeze at.
Mike Massenzio's left MCL, ACL and PCL
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by Charles Awad on Dec 21, 2011 3:40 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Hiroko got paid $8,000 for the worst night of her life
Which isnt too bad considering most people’s worst night ever usually happens after spending $100 at the bars.
Wait wait wait
Didn’t Croker say the new deal with Cyborg made her the highest paid female athlete. GTFO 1 fight maybe 2 a year and pulling in 63k per fight. Chicks in the WNBA making more than that a year.
Oh and someone needs to upload a getting Anderson Silva money gif in this thread somewhere.
63k every 16 seconds.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Dec 21, 2011 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Well Played
I knew that was going to be the argument for my post. Still seems sad to be the Best woman fighter in the world and make some sad money when you are finishing everyone inside a round.(queue the “But shes a man jokes”)
Ok we need a Cyborg VS The World
Bring people in and she’ll just knock them down I’m thinking 10 fights or so in a night make her break a sweat.
She doesn't get paid for her abilities and standing
She gets paid for how much money SF thinks she will bring in by being on the card. Same goes for all fighters in the industry. And while this is simplified, it is fundamentally true.
Ok we need a Cyborg VS The World
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by menckenstein on Dec 21, 2011 3:19 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
I was going to post the same thing
no way 66000/fight makes her the highest payed female athelete.
female golfers are rich as fuck.
Matt "The Terror" Serra!!!!
Strikeforce doesn't have win bonuses
because outside the grandprix their fights aren’t competitive.
OH SNAP
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SF made 30 mill in revenue last year
…chump change to the ufc but still they are making money
by Green Naugahyde on Dec 21, 2011 2:56 PM EST reply actions
See above. Also, Spike was paying the UFC $35 million per year, so $30 million in TV rights would not have been “chump change” to them. (http://mmapayout.com/2011/08/ufc-signs-tv-deal-with-fox/)
Mousasi still getting payed.. it sort of makes you understand why he’s not as serious as he could be about training and such. Just train for a weeks with your buddies, show up, fight an easy opponent, and bank $150 000… sounds like a pretty comfortable lifestyle to me.
However, I think he realizes that once this contract is up he’s going to have to take a significant decrease in pay unless he turns things up. Maybe become champion again, train a little harder and become a legit top ten fighter that people are excited to see fight. I hope so, anyway. Still a fan.
Enjoy it while you can, Strikeforce fighters
Soon enough, you will never again be paid like this.
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by Forbidden Psychological Technology on Dec 21, 2011 3:19 PM EST reply actions
Maybe they will move up to the UFC?
stop being a hater… hater
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by Papercut Elbow on Dec 21, 2011 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
But then they wouldn't be Strikeforce fighters, would they?
Don’t feel embarrassed that your newly-blown mind just showered me with brain parts. I’m used to it.
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by Forbidden Psychological Technology on Dec 21, 2011 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
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