UFC 71 Salaries

[Gramz]

The following figures are based on the fighter salary information that the UFC is required by law to submit to the state athletic commissions, including the winners' bonuses. (Chuck Liddell and Quinton Jackson had flat salaries with no win bonuses.)

Although MMA fighters do not have collective bargaining or a union, the fighters' salaries are still public record, just as with every other major sport in the United States. Any undisclosed bonuses that the UFC also pays its fighters, but does not disclose to the athletic commissions (specifically, PPV bonuses for PPV main event fighters), are not included in the figures below. Also not reflected below are the taxes that the fighters have to pay.

In the listings below, "Main Event Fighters" are defined as fighters who compete in the main event of a show. "Main Card Fighters" are defined as fighters whose fights appear on the main card, but not in title fights or in the main event. "Preliminary Match Fighters" are defined as fighters whose matches take place before the live broadcast goes on the air, regardless of whether or not those matches end up airing on the PPV broadcast.

In addition, next to each fighter's name is the number of UFC fights that he has had, not counting fights that took place during Ultimate Fighter seasons because those fights are officially classified as exhibitions.


Title Match & Main Event Fighters

-Chuck Liddell: $500,000 (18th fight in UFC; lost to Quinton Jackson)

-Quinton Jackson: $225,000 (2nd fight in UFC after 17 fights in Pride; defeated Chuck Liddell)


Main Card Fighters

-Karo Parisyan: $32,000 (9th fight in UFC; defeated Josh Burkman)

-Ivan Salaverry: $17,500 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Terry Martin)

-Terry Martin: $12,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Ivan Salaverry)

-Kalib Starnes: $10,000 (3rd fight in UFC; defeated Chris Leben)

-Chris Leben: $10,000 (9th fight in UFC; lost to Kalib Starnes)

-Houston Alexander: $8,000 (1st fight in UFC; defeated Keith Jardine)

-Josh Burkman: $7,000 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Karo Parisyan)

-Keith Jardine: $7,000 (6th fight in UFC; lost to Houston Alexander)


Preliminary Match Fighters

-Din Thomas: $28,000 (7th fight in UFC; defeated Jeremy Stephens)

-Wilson Gouveia: $16,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Carmelo Marrero)

-Thiago Silva: $16,000 (1st fight in UFC; defeated James Irvin)

-Alan Belcher: $14,000 (4th fight in UFC; defeated Sean Salmon)

-James Irvin: $7,000 (5th fight in UFC; lost to Thiago Silva)

-Carmelo Marrero: $5,000 (3rd fight in UFC; lost to Wilson Gouveia)

-Sean Salmon: $3,000 (2nd fight in UFC; lost to Alan Belcher)

-Jeremy Stephens: $3,000 (1st fight in UFC; lost to Din Thomas)

Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $920,500

[Lex Lossis]

um, i read somewhere that Rampage for $450,000 and Chuck would have gotten 1 mill if he won.

[Gramz]

that's the info on mmaweekly and there usually dead-on with what they report. The other figures look accurate as well, too.

[Lex Lossis]

look at the interview i posted, it even said $450,000

[Gramz]

http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=4031&zoneid=2

I guess the State Athletic Commissions is lying as well.

[Lex Lossis]

Chuck and Rampage share a percentage in revenue, that list doesn't include it.

[Gramz]

Maybe in that case... but I doubt he got a big percent out of it though.

It was nice to see the Iceman get knocked out like that. It was just as dope to see the UFC fans get checked like that as well "How does your breath smell now"

[Lex Lossis]

Premature stoppage.

[AnthonyCruz]

Broke street fighters.

[Lex Lossis]

Broke street fighters.

Shut up and go practice shoulder rolling. :lol:

[Gramz]

his body went limp... what more did you want? The Iceman himself had no problem with it. He was going to take serious punishment if the fight went any longer. Dana White said in the press conference after the fight he's going to aggressively pursue Wanderlai to fight Chuck now.

"how does your breath smell now"- you gotta love Rampage

[soundtrack]

decent money for 2-3 months of training and 3-5 rounds of fighting.

but floyd in one night making 15x the pay of every fighter in the last 15 ufc ppv's is hillarious

[Hold That]

wow, these fighters are getting raped.

MMA will be dead soon, Dana White is on some Vince McMahan cheap sh*t.

[Lex Lossis]

wow, these fighters are getting raped.

MMA will be dead soon, Dana White is on some Vince McMahan cheap sh*t.

wtf are you talkin about. The UFC doesn't make enough to be paying fighters 20 mill. they dont have a bunch of diff. corporations like Boxing does.