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Story Behind Fedor's Salary For Affliction: Banned

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After the salary information was released for Affliction: Banned, people noted that Fedor Emelianenko made only $300,000 for the fight and wondered aloud where the justice was in Tim Sylvia making $800,000 for his part in the main event. Now, according to NBCSports.com, it appears there was more than met the eye.

"Emelianenko received a sizable part of his Affliction contract up front in the form of a signing bonus, and added that Emelianenko also owns the rights to his fight footage in several European countries. That second part may not mean much right now but if Affliction chooses to hold an event in Europe, they would have to pay him for the footage."

While this may not seem like much up front, the large signing bonus protected Fedor in the unlikely event of a loss, while holding the rights to the footage is huge for him down the road as we've seen how important the rights to footage can be in the various UFC takeovers. Whether it be for Affliction or for someone else, Fedor will be able to control the use of that footage and get top dollar for it, making money off of fights even well after they've happened, and that's just smart business on any level. So much for the money woes of Fedor Emelianenko.

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I think it's dumb that a signing bonus gets taken out of your future check. Where's the "bonus" in that? It's just money up front.

Smart on Finkelstein's part to secure rights to footage, surprised more fighters aren't going after that. Of course the UFC would tell you to beat feet.

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Originally Posted by Frag x 3 (Post 510959)

I think it's dumb that a signing bonus gets taken out of your future check. Where's the "bonus" in that? It's just money up front.

Nah it's smart. This way we don't know what his signing bonus was. He could have gotten 1 mil but we will never know.

this is very smart. now it makes more sense.

Agreed, this makes a lot more sense. We all knew there was no way he was making a flat $300k, with no bonus or anything, compared to $800k for Timmy, when he (Fedor) allegedly turned down a cool $2mil per fight to fight with the UFC.

300k wasnt too shabby for the work he did.....it works out at about 6,000 bucks per second

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Originally Posted by JoeSons BruisedNuts (Post 511101)

300k wasnt too shabby for the work he did.....it works out at about 6,000 bucks per second

Right, but that was just in the ring. The overwhelming majority of the work put in by a pro for a fight takes place outside the ring, for weeks and months leading up to the bout.

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Originally Posted by Diegonightmare (Post 511172)

Right, but that was just in the ring. The overwhelming majority of the work put in by a pro for a fight takes place outside the ring, for weeks and months leading up to the bout.

Really????? Are you sure??????? These guys train???? Wow, didnt know that.........

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Originally Posted by JoeSons BruisedNuts (Post 511179)

Really????? Are you sure??????? These guys train???? Wow, didnt know that.........

There are also promotional tours and other events that the fighters attend as well as part of selling their fight.