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Bellator's Rebney: Hector Lombard got 400k signing bonus

Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney said that Bellator has made free agent Eddie Alvarez an offer, and that if he accepts it, he stays in the Bellator fold. If he doesn't, Rebney will allow him to bypass the remaining 70+ days of the exclusive negotiating period and take his talents to the open market, where he will no doubt be MMA's hottest commodity.

If that happens, Rebney expects the situation to resolve itself quickly as the UFC is likely to swoop in with an offer, and Bellator will have a chance to match it.

Rebney went through it six months ago with Hector Lombard, who was at the time Bellator's reigning middleweight champion. In that instance, Lombard hit the open market, where he was immediately offered a lucrative deal with the UFC.

Rebney said that contract, which according to him paid Lombard a $400,000 signing bonus, a $300,000 starting purse per fight and pay-per-view participation points, was cost-prohibitive from Bellator's standpoint.

If the UFC came in with a similar offer for Alvarez, it is believed that would make him the highest-paid 155-pounder in the UFC.

Bellator's Rebney: Hector Lombard got 400k signing bonus - Mixed Martial Arts News

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I can see UFC offering Alvarez a similar offer. It'll be the right incentive to prevent him from resigning with Bellator. I'd like to see him fight Guillard in his first UFC fight I think.

[ckauffman28]

Alvarez has nothing else to prove in Bellator... Guillard would be a good first fight in UFC

[trustkill]

That's some serious cakebread.

Alvarez's departure to the UFC is inevitable, and Rebney knows it. He's sticking up his middle fingers at Zuffa and disclosing what Lombard got to make Eddie more expensive.

This disclosure creates a ripple effect and leads to discord within the UFC roster--you think Tim Boetsch got a $400k signing bonus from Zuffa?? And he's the guy who defeated Hector with a broken foot.

Well played by Bjorn.

[rivethead]

Wow. If that figure is correct, I take back everything I've ever said about dana white not being nearly as good a businessman as his fanboys indicate.














waitaminute, no...no, I don't. That should go down as one of the worst business decisions since Cadbury/Hershey's. It makes the Red Sox signing Carl Crawford look positively Einstein-ian.

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[Sakara=Excitement]

Good lord. I thought that sounded off but:

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[Leucoethiops]

If Lombard shows up again, and performs like he did against Boetsch, he'll find himself looking for work.

That's the thing about a UFC contract; to the fighter, it really isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

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Bellator's Bjorn Rebney says the UFC offered Hector Lombard $300,000 per fight and a $400,000 signing bonus

Rebney said that contract, which according to him paid Lombard a $400,000 signing bonus, a $300,000 starting purse per fight and pay-per-view participation points, was cost-prohibitive from Bellator's standpoint.

*Plus, 300,000K per fight and PPV points. Damn, almost worth it to hold out on the UFC for a couple years to build a fan friendly name before making the jump.

[ckauffman28]

so what if he fights on Fuel like he is in his next fight? do they compensate him some other way since he is missing PPV money?