(Serra’s recent training with striking coach Brad Ferro is already paying dividends. Photo courtesy of Sherdog.)
The UFC handed out $1,184,000 in disclosed salaries and bonuses for Saturday night’s show, with Randy Couture and Matt Serra‘s $200,000+ checks leading the pack. Check out the numbers below, and keep in mind that the figures don’t include additional income from sponsorships, undisclosed locker room bonuses, and cuts of the pay-per-view (Couture), or deductions for taxes, insurance, licensing fees, and monthly Life Alert payments (Coleman).
Randy Couture: $250,000 (no win bonus)
def. Mark Coleman: $60,000
Chael Sonnen: $124,000 (includes $32,000 win bonus, $60,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
def. Nate Marquardt: $105,000 (includes $60,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Paulo Thiago: $90,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus, $60,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
def. Mike Swick: $43,000
Demian Maia: $62,000 (includes $31,000 win bonus)
def. Dan Miller: $15,000
Matt Serra: $210,000 (includes $75,000 win bonus, $60,000 Knockout of the Night bonus)
def. Frank Trigg: $30,000
Mac Danzig: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
def. Justin Buchholz: $8,000
Melvin Guillard: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Ronys Torres: $4,000
Rob Emerson: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Phillipe Nover: $10,000
Phil Davis: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
def. Brian Stann: $17,000
Chris Tuchscherer: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Tim Hague: $7,000
Joey Beltran: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus)
def. Rolles Gracie: $15,000
Underpaid: It’s surprising that a prospect like Phil Davis — with his lofty hype and top-shelf wrestling credentials — was brought in under a $5k/$5k contract, which is usually reserved for guys without many other options. (If Strikeforce didn’t try to pick him up, or if they were outbid at $5,000, they’re fools.) Sucks that he’ll be beating up his next two opponents for the same measly pay.
Overpaid: Rolles Gracie, whose to-show money was three times higher than Davis’s, simply because of his last name. As we saw on Saturday, a legendary lineage won’t prevent you from gassing out completely in the second round.
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Comments
Mon, 02/08/10 - 06:30
Ronys Torres: $4,000 could have made more on the ultimate fighter.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 06:32
OOO... so that's how Triggonomics works....
Mon, 02/08/10 - 06:52
Dana's pretty generous with the old-timer old-school guys... $75K to show for Serra, $60K for Coleman, and $30K for Trigg? I hate to say that's overpaid, but when a top challenger like Nate is only getting $45K, then yeah, that's kinda overpaid. I guess in Serra's case it's easier to convince your boss to pay you that much when he knows you're only going to fight once a year anyway.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 07:05
Rolles Gracie- Shame On The Gracie Name with that poor preformance!
Mon, 02/08/10 - 07:29
Did Rolles even have any real bjj credentials to begin with?
Mon, 02/08/10 - 07:29
(insert first name here) Gracie- Shame On The Gracie Name with that poor preformance!
Mon, 02/08/10 - 07:47
Strikeforce may have not even tried to pick up Davis, the UFC offers him only 5k to show, and Brian Stann still ends up making almost twice what he does. My brain is hanging upside down.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 08:29
On a scale of Fred Ettish to Kalib Starnes, where Ettish is zero and Starnes is zero, how would you score Rolles Gracie's performance?
Mon, 02/08/10 - 08:45
Viva La Mexicutioner
Mon, 02/08/10 - 08:52
why the hell cant i login to the fightpicker.... just keeps saying access denied and to clear my cookies. On a side note its good to see coleman got a little scratch to put gas in his car... I would have loved to see that fight 10-15 years ago. You're a good man coleman
Mon, 02/08/10 - 09:02
and lol @ That Guy. I would have to give him a 0.5 as he at least put in enough effort to gas. I takes a special kind of Susanne to show up to a fight and run away the whole time.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 09:37
@numa Lol
Mon, 02/08/10 - 09:53
rolles had a lot of holes in his game
Mon, 02/08/10 - 10:05
Trigg got tramp-stamped.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 10:16
Beltran should've gotten a bonus for his nickname as well. Mexicutioner is clutch. Much better than his first choice...The Brawling Beaner.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 10:24
I gotta say that Thiago is heavily underpaid, based on those numbers. Take away the submission of the night, and the win bonus, he only got 15k to show. Swick got three times that to show and he was coming off a loss. Hopefully Thiago makes a bit more next time around.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 10:52
Also... Trigg looks a lot like the guy from Police Academy when he gets his eyebrows shaved...
Mon, 02/08/10 - 11:05
@ steampunk22: Saw that too. Made a definite head scratch on that one. Guess Swick had better representation when contract talks happened. Don't know how many more fights Thiago is contracted to fight at $15K but I'm sure his appearance fee will go up next time they're at the table, if he continues to add Ws - and good ones for that matter.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 11:44
thats a lot of pasta
Mon, 02/08/10 - 12:54
I'm sick of seeing losers of a fight making more money than the guys who beat them. Why not just have set win-loss purses for each bout? For example, with Beltran and Gracie, guarantee the winner $15,000 and the loser $12,000. Why should Gracie have a contract that, no matter if he wins or loses, he would still have earned more than Beltran? And the same goes for Davis and Stann. The UFC should institute loss- and win-specific salaries for each fight and not guaranteed fighter-specific salaries.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 02:26
Nate wtf. You may think you can beat Anderson .Although it now seems you won`t get the chance. Dreams are free.
Mon, 02/08/10 - 03:14
At the main event, I thought I'd accidentally pressed my remote's slow-mo. Alas, it was just another episode of the UFC's antiques roadshow...
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