(When Cowboy finds out that’s not a woman, he’s going to lose his shit. Photo courtesy of the WEC 45: After the Weigh ins set on CombatLifestyle.)

In the interest of equal time, we’d like to present the payout information for Saturday’s WEC card, in which 20 fighters split a combined $212,000 in disclosed salaries and bonuses. Only Donald Cerrone and Joseph Benavidez earned more than $20,000. It’s a good thing that all of these guys have well-paying day jobs and fighting is just something they do to supplement their income on the weekends. Here are the numbers, courtesy of MMA Junkie…

Donald Cerrone: $34,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus, $10,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
def. Ed Ratcliff: $19,000 (includes $10,000 Fight of the Night bonus)

Anthony Njokuani: $18,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus, $10,000 Knockout of the Night bonus)
def. Chris Horodecki: $12,000

Joseph Benavidez: $25,000 (includes $12,500 win bonus)
def. Rani Yahya: $9,000

Scott Jorgensen: $19,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus, $5,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
def. Takeya Mizugaki: $13,000 (includes $5,000 Fight of the Night bonus)


Bart Palaszewski: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
def. Anthony Pettis: $3,000

Zach Micklewright: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Muhsin Corbbrey: $4,000

Chad George: $5,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. John Hosman: $3,000

Brandon Visher: $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
def. Courtney Buck: $3,000

Brad Pickett: $16,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus, $10,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
def. Kyle Dietz: $2,000

Erik Koch: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Jameel Massouh: $3,000

We won’t get into our traditional underpaid/overpaid breakdown, because everybody on this card is underpaid to some degree. But consider the case of Anthony Njokuani, who has won Knockout of the Night bonuses in his last three fights. In the UFC, that would make him a wealthy man. Here, he’s barely scraping by due to his $4,000 show-money and the meagerness of the bonuses themselves. And at this point, Donald Cerrone might be better off leaving the WEC and finding out if there’s another organization who’d offer him more than $12,000 in base salary.