UFC Fight Night 10 Fighters’ Salaries - Fight Forum - MMA - UFC - Boxing - K1

The-Iceman-Chuck-Liddell · 06-18-2007, 03:17 PM

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Fighters’ salaries for last week’s UFC Fight Night 10 event are in, and main-card fighter Jon Fitch, who defeated Roan Carneiro with a second-round submission, was the big winner with a $36,000 payday. Fitch earned $18,000 to show and an additional $18,000 as a win bonus.

The total reported payroll for the event and its 18 fighters was $175,500.

UFCjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, MMA news, UFC rumors, UFC gossip, fighter interviews and event previews and recaps - UFCjunkie.com) obtained the salary figures directly from the Florida State Boxing Commission, which oversees all sanctioned MMA events in the state of Florida. The figures can be found in the embedded image, and the event results can be found below.

UFC Fight Night 10 took place on Tuesday, June 12 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. The event aired on Spike TV. In the main event, Spencer Fisher defeated Sam Stout via unanimous decision in the finale of the nine-bout fight card.

Now, the usual disclaimer: the figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, these salaries do not include the typical bonuses the UFC sometimes pays for the submission of the night, knockout of the night, and fight of the night. The figures also do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter’s income.

In other words, these are simply base salaries reported to the FSBC and do represent the total amounts earned by each fighter.

The full event results included:

* Spencer Fisher def. Sam Stout via unanimous decision
* Jon Fitch def. Roan Carneiro via submission with a rear naked choke (Round 2, 1:07)
* Drew McFedries def. Jordan Radev via KO (Round 1, 0:33)
* Thiago Tavares def. Jason Black via submission with a triangle choke (Round 2, 2:49)
* Forrest Petz def. Luigi Fioravanti via unanimous decision
* Tamdan McCory def. Pete Spratt via triangle choke (Round 2, 2:04)
* Gleison Tibau def. Jeff Cox via submission with an arm-triangle choke (Round 1, 1:52)
* Anthony Johnson def. Chad Reiner via KO (Round 1, 0:13)
* Nate Mohr def. Luke Caudillo via unanimous decision

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Heatwaves · 06-18-2007, 03:28 PM

FYI... the bonuses for "KO of the night, sub of the night and fight of the night" are now $30K each.

Shoney · 06-18-2007, 03:33 PM

How does Stout only make $6000?

HaVoK · 06-18-2007, 05:00 PM

I'm assuming Stout and Fitch were paid the same but Fitch got the bonus?

dsfightfan · 06-18-2007, 05:36 PM

Honestly, these figures are chump change! The UFC needs to take care of it's fighters - otherwise they'll need full time jobs to support their families and train on the side. Also, with these tiny payouts some fighters might be willing to accept bribes or lose their fights in order to cash in on bets.

Goeth27 · 06-18-2007, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dsfightfan

Honestly, these figures are chump change! The UFC needs to take care of it's fighters - otherwise they'll need full time jobs to support their families and train on the side. Also, with these tiny payouts some fighters might be willing to accept bribes or lose their fights in order to cash in on bets.

I guess there is no money to be made in the UFC then? That explains why gyms are getting filled with people getting into MMA

Sorry I get tired of fans complaining about pay for fighters, the fighters should be the ones complaining if they arn't making enough.

I think if they get paid too much like boxing, they could go into a fight lose and still get 12 million, there isn't as much motivation to win when you are making that much, but I don't know.12 mil, is a lot to me.

OneStepAhead · 06-18-2007, 05:55 PM

The only thing that needs to happen with fighter payouts is to raise what the lower tier fighters make by 7,000 - 10,000 thousand. The higher tier fighters like 20,000 - 40,000 (Karo, Forrest, etc...) and the Elite fighters get paid good money but maybe some more.

I still think the minimum should be $10,000.

compcast · 06-18-2007, 06:39 PM

the ufc is suppose to be the superbowl of mma,but in the nfl the players get bonuses for making the play offs on top of the minimun of about 200something thousand dollars so just getting the opportunity to fight in the ufc you should get a minimum of 10 grand.

HaVoK · 06-18-2007, 06:54 PM

I think in a year we will see a big difference in the fighters pay.

Goeth27 · 06-18-2007, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by OneStepAhead

The only thing that needs to happen with fighter payouts is to raise what the lower tier fighters make by 7,000 - 10,000 thousand. The higher tier fighters like 20,000 - 40,000 (Karo, Forrest, etc...) and the Elite fighters get paid good money but maybe some more.

I still think the minimum should be $10,000.

That sounds good, maybe even a 15k minimum, what I don't want to see is 50k minimum with 5 million dollar fights, it would climb and get corrupt like boxing imo.

BCguy · 06-18-2007, 07:23 PM

Im usually not one to complain about fighter salaries. But Stout making 6K to head line ? that just seems wrong. Pete Spratt made twice that and he lost. Not to mention he was on the undercard.

Heatwaves · 06-18-2007, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dsfightfan

Honestly, these figures are chump change! The UFC needs to take care of it's fighters - otherwise they'll need full time jobs to support their families and train on the side. Also, with these tiny payouts some fighters might be willing to accept bribes or lose their fights in order to cash in on bets.

The bulk of what lower tier fighters (and some mid tier) make isn't from their fight purses but rather from their sponsorships. A typical fighter will generally make a living wage ($30-40K) from sponsorships alone.

Prior to joining the UFC or turning pro, many of these fighters fight for FREE.

Also remember that pay in the UFC is largely incentive based. Every fighter can DOUBLE their guaranteed purse by winning. In addition to that, every fighter has a chance to earn an additional $30K if they have the KO, submission or fight of the night. I'd rather have the fighters earn their pay like that then have two well-paid fighters like Arlovski and Werdum sit on their asses against each other.

Lastly, there's also a number of bonuses that the public doesn't even know about. That's why MOST fighters don't bitch about the pay. Karo Parysian, for instance, commented that he received a nice little "thank you" check from Dana in his last fight that wasn't a part of public record.

CounterPuncher · 06-18-2007, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by BCguy

Im usually not one to complain about fighter salaries. But Stout making 6K to head line ? that just seems wrong. Pete Spratt made twice that and he lost. Not to mention he was on the undercard.

Yeah I don't really understand why Stout only got 6,000 from this. I don't usually complain about salaries either, but only 6,000 for the main fight of the card, it just doesn't make sense.

Osnodon · 06-18-2007, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Heatwaves

The bulk of what lower tier fighters (and some mid tier) make isn't from their fight purses but rather from their sponsorships. A typical fighter will generally make a living wage ($30-40K) from sponsorships alone.

Prior to joining the UFC or turning pro, many of these fighters fight for FREE.

Also remember that pay in the UFC is largely incentive based. Every fighter can DOUBLE their guaranteed purse by winning. In addition to that, every fighter has a chance to earn an additional $30K if they have the KO, submission or fight of the night. I'd rather have the fighters earn their pay like that then have two well-paid fighters like Arlovski and Werdum sit on their asses against each other.

Lastly, there's also a number of bonuses that the public doesn't even know about. That's why MOST fighters don't bitch about the pay. Karo Parysian, for instance, commented that he received a nice little "thank you" check from Dana in his last fight that wasn't a part of public record.

Good post

tropicana · 06-18-2007, 08:39 PM

I'd be willing to bet these guys are negotating there own contracts against skilled negotiaters. Who just eat them up .These guys just wanna fight on tv and dont really care.

Ninjabot · 06-18-2007, 09:37 PM

Do both fighters get the fight of the night bonus or only the winner?

comucazi · 06-18-2007, 10:16 PM

way to low but good to see fitch getting a little

daveyxx · 06-18-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Heatwaves

The bulk of what lower tier fighters (and some mid tier) make isn't from their fight purses but rather from their sponsorships. A typical fighter will generally make a living wage ($30-40K) from sponsorships alone.

Prior to joining the UFC or turning pro, many of these fighters fight for FREE.

Also remember that pay in the UFC is largely incentive based. Every fighter can DOUBLE their guaranteed purse by winning. In addition to that, every fighter has a chance to earn an additional $30K if they have the KO, submission or fight of the night. I'd rather have the fighters earn their pay like that then have two well-paid fighters like Arlovski and Werdum sit on their asses against each other.

Lastly, there's also a number of bonuses that the public doesn't even know about. That's why MOST fighters don't bitch about the pay. Karo Parysian, for instance, commented that he received a nice little "thank you" check from Dana in his last fight that wasn't a part of public record.

thats a really good point. i never knew some of these facts. i hope these are facts, though. lol.

RockemSockem · 06-19-2007, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninjabot

Do both fighters get the fight of the night bonus or only the winner?

Both fighters get the bonus.

FEC4 · 06-19-2007, 03:40 PM

I Think Fitch got the most because he is doing so good but no one now him, idk much about this stuff so, i've only seen him a couple of times and at UFN 10 and i guess he undefeated in the UFC so i think it well deserved