UFC 71 Payroll

[FieldingMellish]

-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)

-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)

-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

Swiped from www.mmaweekly.com

[K-1 Extremist]

To tack on an assload of cash from Zuffa's under-the-table operations for the true payouts.

[( o Y o )]

I read somewhere Rampage got $450k, though that might have been including ppv % estimates/bonuses etc etc I guess.

I wonder if any other org will be willing to pay Leben more than $10k per fight when he cannot beat the mid levelers and doesn't seem to be improving. Then add his attitude etc....

[Cracked_Knuckle]

So if Chuck win he da got $1million? Plus PPV money?

Not a bad day out.

[( o Y o )]

I think if Chuck had of one he would have got $2mil and change.

[majorcunningham]

anyone else think it's strange that din thomas got so much cash? he's not a top ten fighter to my knowledge and i dont think he's gonna win the lightweight belt. also, dont the ultimate figter guys gets paid a standard ten grand per fight?

that said, i really like din thomas lol

[FieldingMellish]

I think if Chuck had of one he would have got $2mil and change.

Am sure he would. Especially since I'd be willing to bet the pay-per-view sold around 800,000.

I think you're looking at Chuck making $1 million to $1.5 million for the loss, perhaps even $2 million anyway, and Jackson taking home $1 million plus.

[MZN]

What I also find interesting is the discrepancy between Newcomers Silva and Houston Alexander. Thiago Silva earns double and fought undercard....

Silva must have negotiated Dana really hard or something...

[kainer2]

What I also find interesting is the discrepancy between Newcomers Silva and Houston Alexander. Thiago Silva earns double and fought undercard....

Silva must have negotiated Dana really hard or something...

But silva has a much better record, experience, pedigree.

Whilst Alexander was there to be cannon fodder

[bbbmarc]

from the sources close to one fighter who fights for the ufc and lives not too far from me - those numbers are about 50% or even maybe less than the real ones

[majorcunningham]

from the sources close to one fighter who fights for the ufc and lives not too far from me - those numbers are about 50% or even maybe less than the real ones

u mean the fighters only get paid half of the amount that was posted at the top of the thread?

off topic- i thought ur screen name was BBMak for a second... BBMak is the name of a badly cheesy boyband from the UK lol

[kumikala]

u mean the fighters only get paid half of the amount that was posted at the top of the thread?

off topic- i thought ur screen name was BBMak for a second... BBMak is the name of a badly cheesy boyband from the UK lol

Dude, it's your only language. Learn it :)

[majorcunningham]

Dude, it's your only language. Learn it :)

damn all you multi-linguists, we british have the superior language so why should we learn any1 elses?

we should still have the empire imo :)

[loreia]

u mean the fighters only get paid half of the amount that was posted at the top of the thread?
nope, they get double (or more) of what was reported

[loreia]

damn all you multi-linguists, we british have the superior language

Superior in sense that no one can understand you?

One language I was never able to master was "British" English.
God, when brits are talking, I have a feeling an alien took a speedy english course... :-P

[( o Y o )]

LOL....even the Croations are laughing at the poms :-D

[majorcunningham]

eastern europeans? all you do is murder each other :)

i know what you mean about our english though. where im from in liverpool, we may as well be speaking another language than the "Queen's English"

[miscmisc]

eastern europeans? all you do is murder each other :)

I'm sure you didn't mean evil, but that's crossing the line, mate. You should edit that.

i know what you mean about our english though. where im from in liverpool, we may as well be speaking another language than the "Queen's English"

I visited northern England some years ago, and I was already fluent in English (American English, that is) at that time. I didn't get a word of what people were saying, honestly. So the locals started talking to me very slowly, and finally I (barely) understood them. I felt I might as well visit Hungary or somewhere if people talk to me like "Dooo yooouu waaant thiiis, or thaaat?" the same way an Eastern European street bender would talk to me. I stayed there for a few weeks, and gradually started understanding what they were saying.

Then I moved to Liverpool, and it was a whole different language all over again... Then I moved to another place, another different language... It was like a different language at every train station, seriously.

[Kamatari]

I'm not going to quote your post and miscmisc has that part covered, but it reminded me of this:

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[loreia]

I'm sure you didn't mean evil, but that's crossing the line, mate. You should edit that.

LOL, no worries, Croatia is not in Eastern Europe at all.
My country is in south-central Europe, but I love it when people know nothing about geography :-P

P.S.
Image of Eastern Europe as some cross of Mad Max and Post apocalyptic visions is awesome... I'd love to live an interesting life, instead of sitting in front of my comp 12 hrs a day, working for some Swedish company and producing software for Germans. Fuck that, AK-47 is so much more fun :-P

[loreia]

I visited northern England some years ago, and I was already fluent in English (American English, that is) at that time. I didn't get a word of what people were saying, honestly. So the locals started talking to me very slowly, and finally I (barely) understood them.

LOL, same here.

Few years ago I met some english girls in a train in Italy. They spoke so fast I just couldn't follow. My brain could not process informations that fast.

I thought my english was good enough to speak with anyone.
I mean I was able to communicate with some guys from India, and their english was .... exotic to say the least.
(One funny anecdote was when some Indian guy spoke to me for few minutes until I stopped him and said "Sorry I speak english only", and he looked at me and said "But I am talking to you in english", ha ha ha, I felt like an idiot.)

British english superior .... LOOOOOL

[majorcunningham]

I'm sure you didn't mean evil, but that's crossing the line, mate. You should edit that

come on mate it's all banter, hence the smiley face...

i lived with a french guy at university this year and my friend from london had to act as translator for us...

the north-east of england is even worse than us in the north-west though. "geordies" are by far the hardest to understand mainly because they use a totally different dialect to the rest of britain that foreigners would never find in a dictionary...

[MZN]

the north-east of england is even worse than us in the north-west though. "geordies" are by far the hardest to understand mainly because they use a totally different dialect to the rest of britain that foreigners would never find in a dictionary...

Gotta love Geordie talk :)

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[kumikala]

damn all you multi-linguists, we british have the superior language so why should we learn any1 elses?

LOL. By "learn it" I meant learn English. Seems like you have difficulty understanding the meaning of some sentences...

[majorcunningham]

LOL. By "learn it" I meant learn English. Seems like you have difficulty understanding the meaning of some sentences...

ohhh, bitchy!!! what's up with you? i was CLEARLY messing with you mr grumpy!!!

mzn - alan partridge is my favourite tv character ever... im glad his pompous humour is appreciated across europe. i wish i could speak another language so i could watch shows from other countries...

[kumikala]

What's up with me?!! I'LL F*CK YOU UP, B%TCH! BRING IT ON, MOTHERF...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound bitchy :)

i wish i could speak another language so i could watch shows from other countries...

If only there were as many fansubbers for other TV shows from other countries as there are for goddamn Japanese anime shit...

[majorcunningham]

:evil:

majorcunt???? that's just plain offensive

[Cracked_Knuckle]

Is Din getting the most of any the TUF fights still with contracts?

Almost three times what a Leben wins.