$70,000 Bonuses for Diego Sanchez, Paulo Thiago, Daniel Roberts and Cain Velasquez
Posted on October 24, 2010, 12:12 AM by Anton Gurevich$70,000 UFC 121 Bonuses:
- Fight of the Night: Diego Sanchez vs. Paulo Thiago
- Submission of the Night: Daniel Roberts
- Knockout of the Night: Cain Velasquez
Attendance: 14,856 with a gate of $2.15 million
UFC 121 can be easily labeled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship officials as success. Diego Sanchez and Paulo Thiago fought in what was a great display of technique and determination, as Daniel "Ninja" Roberts impressively submitted Mike "The Joker" Guymon via an armbar. Newly crowned UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez will add a hefty 70,000-dollar bonus to his fighting purse, after hammering Brock Lesnar in the first round.
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Cain deserves the KO bonus even if it was a TKO!
that was a brutal beating and it looks like Cain was taken his Time.
Yeah and he even made Brock verbally tap
tko still counts.
Sanchez fight was sick especially 2nd round and as for Cain...total destruction, Brock was in the fight for like 30 secs maybe a min after than it was all Cain and Ninja Roberts is sick too, he was beating Howard till he got caught I think he could be a future contender
The TKO by Cain doesnt really count but shit he man handled the biggest gorrila in the pack so that was a good call for awarding him that bonus
The bonus went up!
Thats great for the fighters
Me and my friend think they should cut all the bonuses in half, but then give everyone a bonus for finishing their opponents. People that win "of the Night" bonuses would get just as much, but people that got just a standard KO, TKO, or Submission would make more too. Would help with the low pay of fighters, and you'd see a lot less lay and pray.
They should make the existing bonuses around ten to twenty five grand and add a finishing bonus into the mix worth fifty grand or even a hundred grand. Every fighter can win it as long as they finish the fight. That incentive alone would make fighters go for blood instead of racking up stats and playing the point game. Sure Dana would be shelling out more dough in the long run, but fights would definitely be more intense which will lead to more buzz and higher ratings.
the bonuses fluctuate. I think it depends how big the event is. I seen them as low as twenty five grand and I think I saw it as high as a hundred thousand once.
Awesome sub by Daniel Roberts
Daniel "Ninja" Roberts impressively submitted Mike "The Joker" Guymon via an armbar
I think you mean anaconda choke
Unless I am seeing things. UFC 121 was suppose to be the "biggest" event. Why was it total gate weaker than UFC 120? I think UFC 100 still has the most total gate at 5 mill or something.
i can be about the ppv, but i dont really know