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WEC 48: ALDO VS. FABER FIGHTER SALARIES


The California State Athletic Commission on Wednesday released the salaries for WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber, featuring a featherweight title bout between Jose Aldo and Urijah Faber, as well as a lightweight championship fight between Ben Henderson and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. The even took place on April 24 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif.

The following figures are based on the fighter salary information that promoters are required by law to submit to the state athletic commissions, including the winners' bonuses.

Although mixed martial arts fighters do not have collective bargaining or a union, the fighters' salaries are still public record, just as with every other major sport in the United States. Any undisclosed bonuses that a promoter also pays its fighters, but does not disclose to the athletic commissions (specifically, pay-per-view bonuses, fight of the night bonuses, etc.), are not included in the figures below.

In the listings below, "Main Event Fighters" are defined as fighters who compete in the main event of a show. "Main Card Fighters" are defined as fighters whose fights appear on the main card, but not in the main event. "Preliminary Card Fighters" are defined as fighters whose matches take place before the main card goes on the air, regardless of whether or not those matches end up airing on the TV or Internet broadcast.


MAIN EVENT FIGHTERS

-Jose Aldo $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Urijah Faber $28,000

-Ben Henderson $26,000 (includes $13,000 win bonus) def. Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone $14,000
*Henderson also received a $65,000 bonus for Submission of the Night


MAIN CARD FIGHTERS

-Manny Gamburyan $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus) def. Mike Brown $21,000
*Gamburyan also received a $65,000 bonus for Knockout of the Night

-Shane Roller $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus) def. Anthony Njokuani $7,000

-Scott Jorgensen $21,000 (includes $10,500 win bonus) def. Antonio Banuelos $7,000


PRELIMINARY CARD FIGHTERS

-Leonard Garcia $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus) def. Chang Sung Jung $5,000
*Garcia and Jung also each received a $65,000 bonus for Fight of the Night

-Anthony Pettis $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus) def. Alex Karalexis $10,000

-Brad Pickett $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus) def. Demetrious Johnson $3,000

-Chad Mendes $8,500 (includes $4,000 win bonus) def. Anthony Morrison $4,000

-Takeya Mizugaki $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus) def. Rani Yahya $9,000

-Tyler Toner $5,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus) def. Brandon Visher $4,000


WEC 48 TOTAL DISCLOSED FIGHTER SALARIES: $336,500
(Does not include post fight bonuses.)


WEC 48 POST-FIGHT BONUSES:
(Each fighter received $65,000)

Fight of the Night:
-Leonard Garcia and Chang Sung Jung

Submission of the Night:
-Ben Henderson

Knockout of the Night:
-Manny Gamburyan

[LionHeartWarchild]

Good for Aldo, he deserves it.

[willpunisher]

wow i'm surprised.

[beau420]

That bantamweight division is a tough one. Watched the Mizugaki fight yesterday, totally forgot Karalexis fought.

I don't think Karalexis deserves 10k and Mizugaki deserves 8k to fight.

Mizugaki's last 3 opponents - Miguel Torres (for the title), Jeff Curran, Scott Jorgensen

Pretty sure Mizugaki made 6k + 10k for fight of the night against Torres, and then 6k for Curran, then finally got bumped to 8k for Jorgensen. Glad to see that he is getting more money. Love watching him fight.

And I guess Karalexis is more of a draw than Mizugaki. I love watching Karalexis fight, but looks like he might be nearing the end of the road with his WEC contract....not sure they are going to want to keep paying him 10k a fight against lesser talent at 155....not sure they have the roster depth. Everyone at 155 is pretty good.....but at 135....OMG....the talent is so good across the board.

Wonder what lesser guys at 155 get paid in the UFC....hmmm

Good example in the UFC....Matt Veach, the guy Frankie fought before getting a shot at BJ Penn, he got 5k to fight Frankie in his first UFC fight.

Crazy...guess I should stop looking into the numbers....it is all about draw, not skill.....skill just gets you bonus'...which in turn gets you more interest and popularity, which in turn gets you more money.

I hope the Bantamweight division keeps growing and they start to phase out some of these 155 fighters, or send them to the UFC. I think 135ers and 145ers deserve more credit than 155ers.

I would love to see some of these 155ers move to the UFC...see how they fair...I think Henderson would fair pretty well...would be interesting to see if he would take a pay cut or get paid more for jumping from WEC to the UFC?

[willpunisher]

faber makes 28g, brown makes 21g and aldo 18g?
brown was the former champ and aldo is the champ. yet faber still makes more money than them? starting to think Sacramento is not the only kiss ass...

[IceCold48]

wow garcia made $23,000 more than jung