Zuffa payout list

MMA-manifesto compiled a list of fighter pay. Kinda interesting. about half of them 500 or so made less than 100,000 with only about 30 making over a mill. Doesn't include the secret "bonuses" or ppv cuts and is only from UFC 46 and up.

http://www.mma-manifesto.com/ufc-fighter-salary-database/salary-main/ufc-career-fighter-earnings.html

Id say Crocop made a killing for the lil effort he put into "cage fighting"

1 Chuck Liddell* $4,320,000 (14 years - 23 fights = $187, 826 per fight)
2 Tito Ortiz* $4,075,000 (15 years - 27 fights = $159,925 per fight)
3 Quinton Jackson* $3,240,000 (5 years - 11 fights = $294,545 per fight)
4 Michael Bisping* $3,135,000 (6 years - 16 fights = $195,538 per fight)
5 Georges St-Pierre * $3,102,000 (9 years - 19 fights = $163,263 per fight)
6 Randy Couture* $3,045,000
7 Anderson Silva * $2,871,000
8 Brock Lesnar $2,825,000
9 Rashad Evans* $2,697,000
10 B.J. Penn * $2,650,000
11 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira * $2,640,000
12 Lyoto Machida* $2,075,000
13 Matt Hughes* $2,045,000
14 Mauricio Rua* $2,040,000
15 Wanderlei Silva* $2,020,000
16 Forrest Griffin* $1,907,000 (7 years - 15 fights = $127,133 per fight)
17 Mirko Cro Cop* $1,885,000
18 Jon Jones* $1,852,000
19 Vitor Belfort* $1,844,000
20 Frank Mir * $1,433,000
21 Dan Henderson* $1,400,000
22 Rich Franklin* $1,326,000
23 Josh Koscheck * $1,302,000
24 Junior dos Santos* $1,190,000
25 Diego Sanchez* $1,187,000
26 Cheick Kongo* $1,183,000
27 Nate Diaz* $1,113,000
28 Jon Fitch * $1,068,000
29 Brandon Vera* $1,051,000
30 Demian Maia * $ 996,000
31 Chris Lytle * $ 960,000
32 Cain Velasquez * $ 918,000
33 Tim Sylvia $ 915,000
34 Fabricio Werdum* $ 910,000
35 Gabriel Gonzaga* $ 907,000
36 Frankie Edgar * $ 891,000
37 Kenny Florian * $ 836,000
38 Nate Marquardt* $ 834,000
39 Chris Leben* $ 828,000
40 Clay Guida* $ 801,000
41 Martin Kampmann* $ 788,000
42 Andrei Arlovski* $ 768,000
43 Joe Stevenson * $ 761,000
44 Cung Le* $ 760,000
45 Donald Cerrone $ 737,600
46 Joe Lauzon* $ 694,000
47 Melvin Guillard* $ 650,800
48 Thiago Alves* $ 643,000
49 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira* $ 625,000
50 Jake Shields* $ 600,000
51 Stefan Struve* $ 596,000
52 Jim Miller* $ 584,000
53 Chael Sonnen* $ 582,000
54 Carlos Condit* $ 574,000
55 Nick Diaz* $ 568,500
56 Dong Hyun Kim* $ 559,000
57 Alan Belcher * $ 558,000
58 Stephan Bonnar* $ 557,000
59 Jason MacDonald * $ 556,200
60 Thiago Silva* $ 555,000
61 Sam Stout* $ 552,000
62 Tyson Griffin* $ 532,500
63 Matt Wiman* $ 528,000
64 Matt Hamill* $ 524,000
65 Gleison Tibau * $ 523,000
66 Matt Serra* $ 515,000
67 Johny Hendricks* $ 504,000
68 Spencer Fisher* $ 504,000
69 James Toney $ 500,000
70 Takanori Gomi* $ 500,000
71 Ken Shamrock* $ 490,000
72 Dennis Siver * $ 485,000
73 Marcus Davis* $ 478,000
74 Yoshihiro Akiyama* $ 475,000
75 Jake Ellenberger* $ 465,000
76 Mark Munoz* $ 463,000
77 Heath Herring* $ 460,000
78 Ed Herman* $ 454,000
79 Jeremy Stephens * $ 445,000
80 Mac Danzig* $ 445,000
81 Sean Sherk* $ 436,000
82 Mike Swick* $ 423,000
83 Terry Etim* $ 417,000
84 Kendall Grove * $ 410,000
85 Ricardo Almeida* $ 410,000
86 Keith Jardine * $ 405,000
87 Brian Stann* $ 404,000
88 Ryan Bader* $ 401,000
89 Royce Gracie $ 400,000
90 Wilson Gouveia* $ 396,800
91 Evan Dunham* $ 393,000
92 Gray Maynard* $ 392,000
93 Edson Barboza* $ 390,000
94 Yushin Okami* $ 386,000
95 Alistair Overeem $ 385,714
96 Anthony Johnson* $ 385,000
97 Cole Miller* $ 381,000
98 Kurt Pellegrino * $ 369,000
99 Ben Rothwell* $ 369,000
100 Mike Pyle* $ 367,000
101 Roy Nelson* $ 366,000
102 Dan Hardy* $ 365,000
103 Thiago Tavares* $ 353,000
104 Rick Story* $ 342,000
105 Charles Oliveira* $ 341,000
106 Urijah Faber* $ 337,000
107 Aaron Simpson* $ 336,000
108 Paulo Thiago* $ 332,000
109 Benson Henderson* $ 318,000
110 DaMarques Johnson * $ 318,000

65 Gleison Tibau * $ 523,000

TIBAU MONIES

Fedor over $2 million per fight, and they call him a fool?

monaroCountry wrote:Fedor over $2 million per fight, and they call him a fool?

They only say that because I'm really starting to doubt they could actually pay him for the.long run. They just expect to pay guys peanuts.

This is why I support fighters going to different promotions and fighting champions in those other promotions. Look at Fedor and Monson both guys are earning money, top money, and fighting as many fights as they want.

Hopefully fighters in the future will see this light also.

Ken Shamrock at roughly a half million for 15+ years???

dude would have been better off workin at Micky D's

Funny how according to this James Toney is the highest paid UFC fighter in history, 1 fight at $500,000. Followed by Brock Lesnar, 7 fights at $403,571.

The fighters should get way more considering how much Zuffa makes from the fights.

Lofgren wrote:The fighters should get way more considering how much Zuffa makes from the fights.

yea and that doesnt show all the 2500 to show 2000 to win guys.

MFW I find out those are career totals and not single fight totals.

I'd like to see how much GOAT has earned in his entire MMA career

4 Michael Bisping* $3,135,000 (6 years - 16 fights = $195,538 per fight)
5 Georges St-Pierre * $3,102,000 (9 years - 19 fights = $163,263 per fight)

LOL

Bisping made more than GSP and yet worked 3 fights less

The bonuses, THE BONUSES!!! You guys don't know about THE BONUSES!!!

So many bonuses you guys have not seen in your lives.

The bonuses are just a dirty UFC tactic so it makes it harder for other organizations to take their fighters. If you don't know how much they're actually making its harder to negotiate for them.

the bonuses aren't shit compared to the PPV percentage thats where the real moneys at and I'm guessing theres only a few top guys that get it, JJ, Silva, GSP ect. guys they absolutely need to retain a sense of legitimacy, or are consistently bringing in high PPVs

Only the top guys get PPV bonuses, most likely just JJ, Silva, GSP.

All the other fights off the scraps hoping to hit it big one day.

I wouldnt be surprised if Jeff Monson made more this year than 95% of UFC fighters.