Villasenor

(Suck it up! You just made $300k!)

The numbers are in for the Cung Le/Frank Shamrock-led Strikeforce/EliteXC event from this past Saturday. The 411 on the payroll for the fighters comes from the California State Athletic Commission and as expected, the main eventers took home the lion's share. It was a night where the HP Pavilion in San Jose pulled in 15,192 at the gate --- with 14,710 of those paying --- for a solid total of $1,117,855 in tixs. Half a mil of that went to Cung ($200k) and Frank ($300k), which amounted to about 3/4 of the overall fight purse of almost $668k.

The amounts:

-- Cung Le ($200,000) over Frank Shamrock ($300,000)
-- Drew Fickett ($10,000) over Jae S. Lim ($3,000)
-- Gilbert Melendez ($50,000) over Gabe Lemley ($7,000)
-- Wayne Cole ($10,000) over Mike Kyle ($10,000)
-- Joey Villasenor ($36,000) over Ryan Jensen ($6,000)
-- Billy Evangelista ($10,000) over Marlon Sims ($2,500)
-- Tiki Ghosn ($8,000) over Luke Stewart ($6,000)
-- Darren Uyenoyama ($4,000) over Anthony Figueroa ($2,000)
-- Jesse Jones ($2,150) over Jesse Gillespie ($1,200)

Bonuses for wins went like this:

-- Drew Fickett ($5,000)
-- Wayne Cole ($5,000)
-- Joey Villasenor ($18,000)
-- Billy Evangelista ($5,000)
-- Tiki Ghosn ($2,000)
-- Darren Uyenoyama ($2,000)
-- Jesse Jones ($500)