Now we know why Kimbo Slice didn’t seem too bothered by his fourteen-second loss at Elite XC: Heat. Turns out he made half a million dollars for his brief night of work. That works out to $35,714.29 per second of cage time for Kimbo, which is an even better per second salary than Tim Sylvia received for his thirty-six-second loss to Fedor Emelianenko ($22,222.22, in case you’re curious).
It’s an especially impressive take when you consider that the live gate from Elite XC’s Ft. Lauderdale show was only $826,000. The only other fighter on the night to match Kimbo’s total was Andrei Arlovski, who was also paid $500,000 for his victory over Roy Nelson, though Affliction picked up the tab for both of them.
The full disclosed payout from Elite XC: Heat looks like this:
Kimbo Slice: $500,000
Seth Petruzelli: $50,000 (including a $15,000 win bonus)
Jake Shields: $50,000 (including $10,000 win bonus)
Paul Daley: $12,000
Andrei Arlvoski: $500,000
Roy Nelson: $80,000
Gina Carano: $25,000 (including $10,000 win bonus)
Kelly Kobald: $6,000
Benji Radach: $30,000 (including $15,000 win bonus)
“Ninja” Rua: $35,000
“Cyborg” Santos: $8,000 (including $4,000 win bonus)
Yoko Takahashi: $2,000
Connor Heun: $5,000 (including $2,500 win bonus)
Edson Berto: $5,000
Mikey Gomez: $4,000 (including $2,000 win bonus)
Lorenzo Borgomeo: $1,500
Nicolae Curry: $1,500 (including $750 win bonus)
Jorge Bocheat: $1,000
Total: $1,316,000
Overpaid: I assume that I don’t even have to say it. Right? I mean, it’s just too obvious. Fine, I’ll say it anyway. Fucking Kimbo. There, you happy?
Underpaid: I would point to Petruzelli’s meager fifty grand here, except he’s telling people that he made “in the six-figure range” on the night, making you wonder what kind of off-the-books funny business might be going on. Instead, I’ll give this one to Gina Carano (assuming her payout is more accurate). Can it be that she made less than Benji Radach and “Ninja” Rua (who made more than the guy he lost to)? No, it simply can’t be. The world can’t work like that. I refuse to believe it.
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commentsAs far as EXC's business decisions go, they will pay their price soon. We all know that as an organization they are failing. However, I don't think the problem with them is the demographic they are pursuing, but rather how they are trying to get them. There is a far greater population of meatheads who look for the "KO" than there are those who actually appreciate the art. TUF is a prime example. Every season is filled with idiots who have taken up "MMA" because they like to "put the stamp on kids" and so forth. (Side note: I do like Leben, sometimes.) There are usually 2 or 3 guys on the show who actually have the humility and focus of a true martial artist.
No MMA organization can be successful just off those who actually understand the sport as an art and all it's complexities. Boxing in it's prime was not watched by only people who had thorough knowledge of "the sweet science". In every niche sport there will always be the hardcore fan, and the casual fan. The money is made on the casuals. Just look up your favorite, most technical fight on youtube, then compare those views with any of Kimbo's fights and you'll see why he is who he is.
In conclusion, without guys like Kimbo or Lesnar (to a lesser degree) headlining fights, we may miss gems like Arlovski, Radach, or Shields etc. It would be nice to see guys like GSP and A. Silva at the top of every card, but artists like them are so few and far between, that it's just an impossibility.
Btw....She's so hot.
As for Gina, unfortunately she got shortchanged, but where can you go for female MMA? the UFC won't ever have female fighters according to Dana white, so she's stuck
This is why MMA will fail; promotions like EliteXC are not going after fans who can appreciate good pugilistic skills, good grappling and submission skills, etc. Most of their fan base can't even spell pugilism, let alone know what it means. Elite XC wants a younger, dumber, preferably pre pubescent fan base who will try to live out their meagre lives through the personalities they provide to them, like Slice. They also want a fan whose knowledge of fight terminology and so forth is limited to "KO", or "you tapped out".
You with brains out there, I'm sure you get the gist of what I am saying.
but gina chould get about 253 million
Also, @ Anonymous: Anyone who abbreviates "people" as "ppl" deserves to be ignored. Three keystrokes is a small price to pay for not looking like an illiterate moron.
I'm not sure anyone was saying fighters shouldn't get paid. It just seems odd that people like Gina Carano made a fraction of what Kimbo Slice made, yet just as many people tuned in to see her as they did Kimbo.
Also, it takes a lot of patience to read through your wall of text. Try adding some punctuation and hit the [Enter] key a couple times.
Seriously, why no love for Kimbo? Can you blame him? He fought eight times on the internet and the suits (or some young hipster douchebags in Snorg shirts) came and threw money at him.... blame them.... they're the ones trying to trick you. Kimbo won the friggin lottery and ya'll be hatin'
kimbo should probably refuse to fight any more legit fighters... put a few more six figure easy win pay days in his pocket... and retire with a nice record so he can prostitute himself out on some clothing, or a video game, or some shit.
anything to get him out of the mma sphere asap.
They need to restructure Kimbo's contract. Seriously, where's he gonna go?
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