Strikeforce @ Playboy Mansion Salaries

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“Strikeforce at the Playboy Mansion” Fighters’ Salaries

Posted by MMA Junkie on October 2, 2007 at 6:01 pm ET


Lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez ($30,000) and Strikeforce newcomer Joe Riggs ($29,500) were the big winners at this past weekend’s Strikeforce show in Beverly Hills, Calif. The two main-card fighters — both of whom were victorious — received the biggest disclosed salaries from the event.

MMAjunkie.com (UFC news, MMA news, UFC rumors, UFC gossip, fighter interviews and event previews and recaps - MMAjunkie.com (formerly UFCjunkie.com)) has received the event’s official salary figures directly from the California State Athletic Commission.

The Sept. 29 show took place on Hugh Hefner’s world-famous estate and was streamed live on Yahoo! Sports. The invitation-only event drew nearly 1,000 spectators who paid $1,000 per ticket. It was the first-ever MMA event held at the Playboy Mansion.

The total official payout for the event’s 24 fighters was $229,183.50.
Full payouts includes:

• Gilbert Melendez ($30,000) def. Tetsuji Kato ($6,000)
• Joe Riggs ($29,500)* def. Eugene Jackson ($15,000)
• Josh Thomson ($24,500)# bonus def. Adam Lynn ($6,000)
• Billy Evangelista ($6,000)^ def. Clint Coronel ($3,000)
• Jorge Masvidal ($18,182.50) def. Matt Lee ($1,000)
• Bobby Southworth ($20,000)# def. Bill Mahood ($1,000)
• Falaniko Vitale ($20,000) def. Ron Fields ($7,000)
• Daniel Puder ($20,000) def. Richard Dalton ($3,000)
• Dewey Cooper ($500) def. Adam Smith ($500)
• Daniel McWilliams ($1,000) def. Eddy Millis ($4,000)
• Luke Stewart ($7,500)+ def. Sam Liera ($3,000)
• Anthony Figueroa ($2,000) def. Miguel Linares ($1,500)
  * — $15,000 win bonus, # — $10,000 win bonus, + — $4,000 win bonus, ^ — $3,000 win bonus

As with other fight organizations, a disclaimer should be issued. The above figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter’s income — nor do they include other special bonuses paid by Strikeforce.
In other words, these are simply base salaries reported to the CSAC and do not represent the total amounts earned by each fighter.

Still nothing special but I haven't heard of half of those guys.

[HaVoK]

Some of those fighters got paid pretty well. Good going Strikeforce.

[theEmpiric]

lol, wow those are some good "undercard" payouts