Strikeforce Salaries: Nick Diaz Top Earner With $175K Payday
by Nick Thomas on Apr 14, 2011 10:51 AM EDT
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The California State Athletic Commission released the Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley salaries on Wednesday (via MMAMania.com). The Event took place at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego with co-headliners Nick Diaz and Gilbert Melendez, along with Gegard Mousasi, going home as the top earners:
Nick Diaz $175,000 (no win bonus) def. Paul Daley $65,000BE Reader nottheface comments:
Gilbert Melendez $150,000 (no win bonus) def. Tatsuya Kawajiri $97,612.50
Gegard Mousasi $150,000 drew Keith Jardine $25,000
Shinya Aoki $73,637.50 (no win bonus) def. Lyle Beerbohm $10,000
Robert Peralta $4,000 ($2,000 win bonus) def. Hiroyuki Takaya $2,740
Virgil Zwicker $3,000 ($1,000 win bonus) def. Brett Albee $1,000
Joe Duarte $2,000 ($1,000 win bonus) def. Saad Awad $1,500
Herman Terrado $1,500 ($500 win bonus) def. A.J. Matthews $1,000
Rolando Perez $3,000 ($1,000 win bonus) def. Tom Peterson $1,000
Casey Ryan $2,000 ($1,000 win bonus) def. Paul Song $750
"It is interesting to note that Nick Diaz has apparently the highest reported salary of any welterweight not named Georges St. Pierre, Matt Hughes, or B.J. Penn, and that Gilbert Melendez is now apparently the highest paid lightweight under the Zuffa umbrella."
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look dude....
Nick is stuck driving a piece of shit honda cause his shit keeps breaking down. HE NEEDS TO COACH TUF JUST FOR THE FREE WHIP. How else will he make it to Cesar gracies to train? I hear jake and gil are sick of him bumming rides. if he would have signed with the ufc he could coach against diego. Now how will afford a car???? He won’t…. nick is gonna be taking the bus and its all Scott Cokers fault.
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by the-gentle-way on Apr 14, 2011 10:32 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 4 recs
whoa
paul daleys paycheck is surprising to me
Jonny Bench called.
by Sterling Archer on Apr 14, 2011 10:28 AM EDT reply actions
Dang, good point
Even if he was getting paid a flat fee and not a win bonus, that’s nearly twice what his pay was to fight Hazelett with a win bonus.
Makes you wonder what UFC fighters are really getting in unreported bonuses
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by Dave Strummer on Apr 14, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
I remember after Shogun/Machida 1 there was an article about an exchange Dana and Shogun had directly after the fight. Dana told his accountants to “pay the taxes”, which they understood to mean “double Shogun’s paycheck.” The way it all went down made me think it wasn’t too uncommon for something like that to happen.
"pay the taxes" meant "pay the taxes"
but the taxes where apparently very high due to Shogun being a foreign national living on foreign soil, from what I understand.
which is generally why the foreign fighters reported salaries are so low
they kinda use some legal loopholes to get away with not having to pay those absurd taxes
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That was an extreme case
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by Neil Manich on Apr 14, 2011 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Every time one of us says this people get pissed off and insist we’re lying. But from asking around, those bonuses are not nearly as common as fans act like they are.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 14, 2011 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
you could argue the Hazlett KO and the Kampmann KO were the foundation for this very payday...
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by the-gentle-way on Apr 14, 2011 10:34 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
$750??? Omg, thats ridiculous.
by psuwrestler99 on Apr 14, 2011 12:15 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
No Win bonus...
wow, i thought that would change after the forza llc acquisition.
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by some schmuck in texas on Apr 14, 2011 10:33 AM EDT reply actions
hmmm
I thought win bonuses were discretionary, not contractual. Could be I’m confusing them with the fabled under-the-table bonuses.
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by some schmuck in texas on Apr 14, 2011 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
you are, win bonuses that appear on these reports are guaranteed. The only things you see on these reports are what is written on the fight agreement submitted to the commission (sometimes the sites add in the “x of the night bonus”) but any other payment from the promoter (or network or whatever) to the fighter is unreported.
Another thing that's probably influencing my impression here
when the Zoof-Brass didn’t award “KO of the Night” to Mir when he got the only KO of the Night, since the rest of the match was kind of like watching “The Weather Channel” on a really nice day.
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by some schmuck in texas on Apr 14, 2011 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Aoki has broken arms over less.
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by the-gentle-way on Apr 14, 2011 10:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 4 recs
Some nice numbers here! Good on them to get proper payed.
The thing that suprises me the most though is Mousasi at 150 000. Can that be right? Seems quite high.
by Horselover Fat on Apr 14, 2011 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
When they signed Mousasi he was considered one of the best prospects in the world and one of, if not the, best fighter out there not under contract with Zuffa
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Good point. Also he was their LHW champion for a little while. I can’t help but to wonder if this high pay scale for a non-draw fighter might have contributed to him having a year between fights in SF. Hope to see him in action in the US more frequently.
by Horselover Fat on Apr 14, 2011 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
TRUE THAT
I saw that and was happy that at least somebody got that fight right…. not on the score cards but on the pay stubs.
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Nick Diaz needs to chill with all the underpaid crap. $175,000 for, I think he said he trained for a month and a five minute fight. People work every day for a whole year and make way way less than that.
Dude made $175,000 in one month and he whines about no being paid enough. Dude GTFO
Something tells me those people who work every day for a whole year
aren’t losing brain cells by the handful because Paul Daley shows up at their job and starches them twice.
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by lowellthehammer on Apr 14, 2011 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
not even mentioning advertisment money
and if any backroom bonuses were given, seeing DFW there makes me assume his checkbook went with his as well
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Hey man that is BEFORE tax, deduct that and training expenses, i reckon he’s taken home nearer $70,000. For taking on a guy half the writers on BE were saying was gonna stretch him. It still makes me sick Diaz and Daley didn’t get FOTN bonuses, that was the most intense single round since Abbott vs Frye!
I figure he paid close to $20,000 in taxes. And I dont know how much training sessions cost, but I dont think they are anywhere near $80,000. I might be wrong, but if he is paying that much to train then that is crazy money
10% tax?
Wormwood i hope you get into government one day!
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by Neil Manich on Apr 14, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
you have to remember
Fighters have limited window. It’s part of why pro athletes in general get paid so much. They can’t work until they’re 65 like average joes do. They also don’t have a pension. So that money is doubling as salary (for probably twice as long as it has to for joe 9-5 as athletes work typically half as long for a good career) and then some of it has to be saved to cover his retirement (which athletes are notoriously not good at). Some people might be able to pick up a career when they’re done fighting, others will have irreparable damages to their body and mind and be unable.
So while $175k does sound great to me, I can understand why a fighter might talk about it not being enough.
Especially one with such a big weed budget.
750 bucks?! Ridiculous.
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by ProfessorBLove on Apr 14, 2011 10:59 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
perhaps the worst attempt at a joke I’ve seen
by brazary on Apr 14, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
You haven't been here for long then have you?
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by lowellthehammer on Apr 14, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
That is still a pretty bad joke dude. Come on.. Paul.. Song...
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by James Anthony on Apr 14, 2011 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I liked it! It was like…a grandpa joke.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 14, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
WOW
I’m really surprised at these salaries. Makes me think SF was forced to pay these guys big amounts to keep them from going to the UFC. It makes sense, if they lost Diaz, Melendez, and Gegard…they would have nothing to sell to the UFC.
Now, before people say “OMG, they make more than UFC fighters”, let’s not forget that the UFC is notorious for locker room bonuses, PPV bonuses, and event bonuses. I guarantee you Frankie Edgar isn’t making what the report says.
pretty much shows that zuffa beat them
they inflated their top guys salaries to the extent that strikeforce’s management wasnt comfortable with a future with their product
pretty damn impressive in a business point of view how dominant and shrewd zuffa is
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Quite the pay disparity
between the main event winners and the undercard winners.
by High Knee Destroyer on Apr 14, 2011 11:40 AM EDT reply actions
Aren’t Nick and Gil both on the first fight of a new deal?
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Weird to me that Crusher gets paid more than Aoki
Maybe that was a one time contracted fee or Crusher gets a championship bonus or something. You would think Aoki would have the richer contract.
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wtf
Paul Song $750
After the fight, they passed a collection plate for his bus fare.
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by Gremio on Apr 14, 2011 12:11 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I wonder how Nate feels
knowing that, despite the fact that they are both fighters, his brother makes more money, is more articulate, is better at triathlons, and has a deeper voice?
more articulate
what
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by ImmortalTechnique92 on Apr 14, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Good for Nick
but stop whining about your honda, you earned enough to buy several Hummers in less than 5 minutes
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