You have to just laugh at some of the figures. Fedor Emelianenko: $300,000 (no win bonus) def. Tim Sylvia: $800,000 Andrei Arlovski: $750,000 (includes $250,000 win bonus) def. Ben Rothell: $250,000 Josh Barnett: $300,000 (no win bonus) def. Pedro Rizzo: $70,000 Mark Hominick: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus) def. Savant Young: $7,000 Renato "Babalu" Sobral: $90,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus) def: Mike Whitehead: $50,000 Matt Lindland: $300,000 (includes $75,000 win bonus) def. Fabio Nascimento: $20,00O Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: $50,000 (no win bonus) def. Edwin Dewees: $15,000 Mike Pyle: $20,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus) JJ Ambrose: $5,000 Ray Lizama: $3,000 vs. Justin Levens: $6,000 Vitor Belfort: $140,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus) Terry Martin: $30,000 Paul Buentello: $80,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) vs. Gary Goodridge: $25,000 Total: $3,332,100.
Where did you get these numbers from? It seems very low for Fedor and too much for Lindland and Arlovski.
don't worry, i'm pretty sure that Fedor had what he asked, it's just not show up in the official salaries
These are the official figures. You should be able find them on most mma sites. Fedor must have got more then the $300k listed but Sylvia, Arlovski, Rothwell, Lindland and even Belfort got far too much.
Here are some snippets from Kevin Iole article on the yahoo site. Saturdays show did a gate of nearly $2.1 million, though a source close to the situation said Affliction purchased $500,000 of those tickets itself. Affliction vice president Tom Atencio conceded the company did purchase a large number of the best seats for use for friends and family of the fighters and the company employees, as well as VIPs, but he would not confirm an amount. But he said the pay-per-view results, which most analysts were expecting to come in around 75,000, was well better than expected. Atencio would only say the final number definitely would be beyond 100,000.
Fedor had some other payments for sure, maybe a huge signing bonus or something? But I think what Affliction is doing here is trying to attract other fighers. I mean if you're say Silva and are getting paid 200K in the UFC, and Arlovski and Silvya- guys who are not as good as you are, are making 800K for a fight, I'm sure this will get them thinking.
