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UFC 125 Salaries: Thiago Silva Top Earner With $110K Payday - Bloody Elbow

According to the Nevada State Athletic Commission: (via MMA Junkie):

Frankie Edgar: $102,000 ($51,000 win) def. vs. Gray Maynard: $52,000 ($26,000 win)*
Brian Stann: $42,000 ($21,000 win) def. Chris Leben: $46,000
Thiago Silva: $110,000 ($55,000 win)def. Brandon Vera: $60,000
Dong Hyun Kim: $70,000 ($35,000 win) def. Nate Diaz: $33,000
Clay Guida: $62,000 ($31,000 win) def. Takanori Gomi: $50,000

Jeremy Stephens: $36,000 ($18,000 win) def. Marcus Davis: $31,000
Dustin Poirier: $8,000 ($4,000 win) def. Josh Grispi: $15,000
Brad Tavares: $16,000 ($8,000 win) def. Phil Baroni: $25,000
Diego Nunes: $20,000 ($10,000 win) def. Mike Brown: $23,000
Daniel Roberts: $24,000 ($12,000) def. Greg Soto: $8000
Jacob Volkmann: $24,000 ($12,000 win) def. Antonio McKee: $15,000

* - Although not reflected in the NSAC paperwork, both headliners received their win bonuses despite the draw

$60,000 fight-night bonuses:
- Fight of the Night: Frankie Edgar s. Gray Maynard
- Submission of the Night: Clay Guida
- Knockout of the Night: Jeremy Stephens

[IceCold48]

thiago silva makes 55 grand to show and his last two scheduled fights were originally supposed to be on the undercard?

[KevoOnTheRadio]

Glad to see Maynard and Edgar got their win bonus, even though they didn't.

[TBEAR]

Originally Posted by KevoOnTheRadio

Glad to see Maynard and Edgar got their win bonus, even though they didn't.

Agreed

[BBG]

Its all contractual. Thiago is (I believe, will confirm) currently fulfilling his third UFC contract. His salary was not always the same. These guys still get payed very little in comparison to other "sports"

[MMA4EVERRR]

Originally Posted by BBG

These guys still get payed very little in comparison to other "sports"

Well u still cant compare MMA to sports like NBA, MLB, NFL
Those sports have been around for at least 50years...MMA has not been mainstream for even 10 years yet

The guys on the undercards make more money than boxers who fight on the undercard...Those boxers get like 1g-2g with no win bonus...the least that was made on this card was 4g and the guy still got a win bonus

These numbers will continue to improve

[MMAV]

Wow Poirier would've only got $4,000 if he lost? thats pretty low. They should set a minimum amount of atleast 6,000+.. well atleast I think so.

[Masscore]

Originally Posted by BBG

Its all contractual. Thiago is (I believe, will confirm) currently fulfilling his third UFC contract. His salary was not always the same. These guys still get payed very little in comparison to other "sports"

You have to remember that those other sports pull in billions of dollars a year. The UFC is a huge company but they probably don't even pull in 25-30% of what the NFL makes a year. Hell the Dallas Cowboys are probably worth almost as much as the UFC and thats only one team out of 32. The UFC makes chump change compared to even the NHL. If the UFC ever starts making that kind of money then you can expect the fighters to be paid accordingly.

[nezlam1]

Originally Posted by MMA4EVERRR

Well u still cant compare MMA to sports like NBA, MLB, NFL
Those sports have been around for at least 50years...MMA has not been mainstream for even 10 years yet

The guys on the undercards make more money than boxers who fight on the undercard...Those boxers get like 1g-2g with no win bonus...the least that was made on this card was 4g and the guy still got a win bonus

These numbers will continue to improve

Q4
UFC 123
UFC 122 – Free TV
UFC 121 -- (Velasquez vs. Lesnar) Anaheim
UFC 120 – Free TV (Bisping vs. Akiyama) London


Q3
UFC 119 -- (Mir vs. Big Nog II) Indianapolis
UFC 118 -- (Penn vs. Edgar II) Boston
UFC 117 – 1,000,000 (Sonnen vs. Silva) Oakland
UFC 116 – 1,100,000 (Lesnar vs. Carwin) Vegas
Average (through two events) = 1,050,000

Q2
UFC 115 – 600,000 (Franklin vs. Liddell) Vancouver
UFC 114 – 1,050,000 (Evans vs. Jackson) Vegas
UFC 113 – 520,000 (Machida vs. Rua) Montreal, Quebec
UFC 112 – 490,000 (Silva vs. Maia) Abu Dhabi
Average = 665,000 buys

Q1
UFC 111 – 855,000 (Hardy vs. St. Pierre) Newark
UFC 110 – 230,000 (Big Nog vs. Velasquez) Sydney
UFC 109 – 270,000 (Couture vs. Coleman) Vegas
UFC 108 – 300,000 (Evans vs. Silva) Vegas
Average = 413,750 buys

The UFC is still raking in over 10 million dollars per show( using numbers from it's lowest quarter) just from PPV buys and that includes the 50-50 split with the PPV company. The UFC can do much better in terms of paying there fighters. The live gate makes more then enough to cover all the fighters salaries.

[IceCold48]

silva/sonnen had 600,000 buys i thought also that list reminds me that if brocks gone we are really, really gonna have quite a few people work themselves into becoming high sellers.