James Irvin and Scott Smith, one dude that talks alot, and the other that can barley talk

I normally do not brag, but when I see these numbers it makes me feel good I went to school and started a successful business. I net around $1000 per day from my home office while my employees are working at the office. Sure, it is a small business (6 employees) but I live comfortably and never need to take a punch to the face.

I guess my point is, without a proper education fighters are in the same boat as strippers anyway. They make cash hoping for quick knockouts to get rich, and the strippers are looking to get knocked up by a rich guy to live a better lifestyle.. all because they decided not to take the easy way (although fighting is not “easy”, it easier to fight than go to school and get a job to most fighters)

Me too. That’s great. I guess that makes us pro fighters also.

HOLY SHIT!! James Irvin in the background still has that cut under his eye!

It is amazing when you think of the payouts. That event had a “livegate” of somewhere around $320,000. They PAID the fighters a little over $300,000…..They paid NEARLY the ENTIRE event gate to the fighters??????

Imagine if the UFC did that. they bring in 3- 4 million, sometimes MORE on a typical event. They pay out in fighter salaries around 25% of that or close to a million. Strikeforce paid ALMOST 100% of the gate!!!!

@ KG
Dude, your right. I missed that when I saw the picture. Wow……….poor bastard. That cut was MASSIVE. His expression even looks as if he is still affected by that ass whoopin.

Shit, I just got paid $1000 to read this insteading of doing work.

Yeah too bad you get wonderbread in Strikeforce, while the UFC is handing out baguette.

What the fuck kind of nerdy shit is “Gift of the Magi”? Are you MMA writers or Magic: The Gathering geeks?

Brian Schwartz is a very decorated and talented kickboxer. From what I know he also made very good money fighting in kickboxing (a sport that is very much lacking in $$) because he has an exceptional ability to promote himself. He gets sponsors on board and gets butts in the seats better than just about everybody.

Strikeforce is a regional powerhouse and they pay good money to local talent that helps to fill the stands. The fight was close to home for Brian and his gym and I’m sure the promoter saw him well worth the money due to his ability to bring in ticket revenue. This is a business and Strikeforce is spending money in to make money. I guarantee he has better drawing power in California than Kim Couture and most of the others on that card.

@xocgx: Dude, did you just reference "Gift of the Magi" on Cage Potato?  Because that’s awesome.  And people say MMA fans don’t know stuff.  Well done, sir.  That may well earn you a "comment of the week" nomination.

A real Xmas?

Not like the time I cut my long hair to buy Kimbo some medallion shine and he sold his Gold fist medallion to buy me a brush for my pretty hair…..we learned a lot of about real love and real WORK!

weird you did know what i was thinking. how the hell does kim coture make about the same as eves edwards cuz her husbands a good fighter? i don’t get it.

i actually had a stripper tell me that last week

so i made up some names of people that go to her college and she pretended like she knew them rofl

Is that James Irvin in the background of that pick with a nasty scar on his face from Anderson Silva? I remember him having a huge gash that looked like it would be a permanent scar, so it makes sense… I bet everytime he looks in his mirror he regrets stepping in the cage with the Spider

That’s bullshit. The stripper is paying her way through college; everyone knows that.