UFC 148 salaries: Griffin, Ortiz, Silva and Le at the top of the payroll
Posted on July 9, 2012, 11:51 AM by Mike SearsonLowkick.com just obtained the list of disclosed salaries from the Nevada State Athletic Commission for UFC 148. UFC 148 took place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main card, including UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva's second-round TKO of Chael Sonnen and Tito Ortiz's farewell fight, aired on pay-per-view following preliminary fights on FX and Facebook. The total disclosed payroll for the event was $1,438,000.
For the headlining event Anderson Silva made a flat $200,000 with no win bonus. Chael Sonnen took home $50,000 for his appearance.
The full UFC 148 payouts included:
Anderson Silva: $200,000 (no win bonus)
defeated Chael Sonnen: $50,000
Forrest Griffin: $275,000 (includes $150,000 win bonus)
defeated Tito Ortiz: $250,000
Cung Le: $150,000 (no win bonus)
defeated Patrick Cote: $21,000
Demian Maia: $96,000 (includes $48,000 win bonus)
defeated Dong Hyun Kim: $44,000
Chad Mendes: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus)
defeated Cody McKenzie: $10,000
Mike Easton: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
defeated Ivan Menjivar: $13,000
Melvin Guillard: $72,000 (includes $36,000 win bonus)
defeated Fabricio Camoes: $8,000
Khabib Nurmagomedov: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
defeated Gleison Tibau: $31,000
Constantinos Philippou: $32,000 (includes $16,000 win bonus)
defeated Riki Fukuda: $28,000
Shane Roller: $46,000 (includes $23,000 win bonus)
defeated John Alessio: $10,000
Rafaello Oliveira: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
defeated Yoislandy Izquierdo: $6,000
These figures are base salaries as reported to the NSAC and do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. These amounts do not reflect money paid by sponsors, which are often the primary portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any discretionary bonuses such as "Knockout of the Night" or "Fight of the Night" (as we reported here) or pay-per-view bonuses that some top-level fighters receive.
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wish we knew what the ppv cuts were
This makes no sense
Why does Anderson only make $200,000 with no win bonus while while forest makes $275,000 and Tito makes $250,000 and he lost? Not to mention Silva is undefeated in his last 14 fights and defended the title 11 times, and destroyed Forest who is making more than him?
Cause Silva has a term in his contract saying he gets X% of PPV buys, which would be around 10-15%. So if you think about it a PPV is roughly 30-40$? (Dunno I live in Europe so we don't buy a PPV it comes with a channel) 1Million buys x $40 = $40 million which silva gets at least 10% of, so he probably made over $4 million on this fight.
2.4 million buys @ $55 each. That's $132 million. Where did you get the 10% - 15% number from? It seems like a pretty high estimate.
Everytime one of these post comes out ther is always a few compalining how losers made more and whatnot, its all bout contracts, these numbers dont even mean anything with ppv cuts, I heard rumors that Silva made 8 mil this fight.
Might seem low for him. But dont forget his sponsers. Im sure that is where he makes his real money.
I had heard the same. Dana said at the PFPC that Silva won "knock out of the night" but maybe no "bonus" money due to his potentially outragious contract
Hahaha, outrageous contract that's less than the B side of a Floyd Mayweather PPV. Good one Dana.
yup its the ppv cut, i think all these guys get alteast some of the % of the ppv,
also the fact that they have sponsors
Sonnen and Silva both made more than what's been shown. Tito and Forrest are probably in the same boat.
Now did Sonnen and Silva actually make what they were worth off this fight? Most likely not.
Sonnen and Silva both made more than what's been shown. Tito and Forrest are probably in the same boat.
Now did Sonnen and Silva actually make what they were worth off this fight? Most likely not.
Dammit.
Time to cut McKenzie Dana,half the nation is still in shock that he's around!
with Le, it the kick, that why dude make so much.lol
Cant believe how much tito makes, he has 1 win in like 8 years and basically has sucked since the ufc got better fighters.
But he helped build the UFC....