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UFC 108 salaries: Rashad Evans earns top payday with $375K, leads $843K fighter payroll | MMAjunkie.com

by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Jan 04, 2010 at 1:10 pm ET
Although a particularly nasty injury bug ravaged the UFC 108 fight card, at least one notable name survived for a major payday.

Former champ and main-event winner Rashad Evans earned $375,000 ($175,000 of which came as a win bonus) to lead UFC 108's official fighter payroll of $843,000.

MMAjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, UFC rumors, fighter interviews and event previews/recaps | MMAjunkie.com) today requested and received the list of disclosed salaries from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

UFC 108 took place Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and aired on Spike TV and then pay-per-view.

In addition to Evans, who edged fellow light-heavyweight contender Thiago Silva via unanimous decision, other top earners from the card included main-card winner Junior Dos Santos ($60,000), Silva ($55,000), and Martin Kampmann ($46,000).

The full payouts included:

Rashad Evans: $375,000 ($175,000 win bonus)
def. Thiago Silva: $55,000

Paul Daley: $34,200* ($18,000 win bonus)
def. Dustin Hazelett: $19,800*

Sam Stout: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus)
def. Joe Lauzon: $12,000

Jim Miller: $30,000 ($15,000 win bonus)
def. Duane "Bang" Ludwig: $12,000

Junior Dos Santos: $60,000 ($30,000 win bonus)
def. Gilbert Yvel: $30,000

Martin Kampmann: $46,000 ($23,000 win bonus)
def. Jacob Volkmann: $6,000

Cole Miller: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus)
def. Dan Lauzon: $15,000

Mark Munoz: $32,000 (16,000 win bonus)
def. Ryan Jensen: $6,000

Jake Ellenberger: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Pyle: $17,000

Rafaello Oliveira: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
def. John Gunderson: $5,000

* - Daley fined 10 percent of his "show" money for missing weight; the $1,800 was awarded to opponent Hazelett


Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any other "locker room" or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays.

For example, as discussed above, the figures above do not include the UFC's traditional "fight night" bonuses. The UFC 108 bonuses were worth $50,000 and awarded to Daley (Knockout of the Night), Miller (Submission of the Night), and Stout and Joe Lauzon (Fight of the Night).

In other words, the above salary figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.

For more on UFC 108, including the night's official results, check out the MMA Events section of MMAjunkie.com.

[Mr_MMA]

Peanuts

[beau420]

Damn....Rashad is making that much?

200,000 a fight? I looked it up, he made 200,000 last fight too against Lyoto when he was champ. Before that fight he made 65,000 for his fight with Griffin. 60,000 for his KO of Chuck.

So I guess not only being the champ gets you a huge payday, but even after you get put to sleep and come back, you stick in that same pay grade.

I wonder if he pay is going to stay at 200,000 until he loses.

I always find it interesting how the UFC pays their fighters and when they decide to give a guy a bump and how long they keep paying them top dollar.

[Sniggles]

Rashad won the title when his contract negotiation came up, perfect timing for him. If you sign a 200/175k contract it's not going to magically diminish. Rashad probably signed a 3 or 5 fight contract at that rate. Rashad got really lucky he got paid before Machida whooped him.

[VimyRidge]

The guys in the co-main event are getting 20k to fight and the 3rd main fight, they are getting 12K to show? Using my poor math, based on the salaries, either these fights are not fights that should be in the top part of the card, or if they are important fights like Dana is suggesting, than he is greatly underpaying these guys. Which one is it Dana?????

Edit: Also, not sure why anyone is complaining about Rashad's payout, if he is in the main event of the card, I would be expecting both guys to be making that kind of money, if not more, especially when there are no other "Big" name fights on the card (although I am not sure why Yvel vs Dos Santos wasn't the co-main event).

[Y2JUBAE]

Dayum UFC is fuckin cheap. Not even a million dollars between all the fighters.

Dana's always saying how it's going to be bigger than football and how they are making big money now, why not break a damn million on the freaking ppv! Pathetic.