UFCmania.com just received the fighter payouts for UFC 67 from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) for the event held on February 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events center in Las Vegas, Nevada:
Anderson Silva — $70,000 ($35,000 to show, $35,000 to win)
Travis Lutter — $20,000
Silva defeated Lutter via submission (strikes) in round two
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic — $350,000 ($245,000 net after $105,000 foreign tax)
Eddie Sanchez — $30,000
Filipovic defeated Sanchez via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
Roger Huerta — $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 to win)
John Halverson — $3,000
Huerta defeated Halverson via knockout in round one
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson — $170,000 ($120,000 to show, $50,000 to win)
Marvin Eastman — $30,000
Jackson defeated Eastman via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
Patrick Cote — $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 to win)
Scott Smith — $12,000
Cote defeated Smith via unanimous decision
Terry Martin — $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)
Jorge Rivera — $12,000
Martin defeated Rivera via knockout in round one
Frank Edgar — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Tyson Griffin — $9,000
Edgar defeated Griffin via unanimous decision
Ryoto Machida — $36,000 ($18,000 to show, $18,000 to win)
Sam Hoger — $7,000
Machida defeated Hoger via unanimous decision
Dustin Hazelett — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Diego Saraiva — $3,000
Hazelett defeated Saraiva via unanimous decision
Note: Travis Lutter was fined 10 percent of his purse ($2,000) for failing to make weight. His opponent, Anderson Silva, will receive $1,000 and the NSAC will receive the other $1,000. Therefore, he really only takes home $18,000.
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ah! 105,000 foreign tax? i know he still takes 245,000 but but 30%?
I want to negotiate Silva’s next contract. $30k for a champ to show? That is a rip off especially since he is so exciting in a striking match and compared to what Rampage and Cro Cop just received.
Oooops $35K and Eastman $30K
At least they gave Eastman, and Sanchez decent money to take the beating… Silva earned his paycheck fighting 11 weeks after having knee surgery. And slapping Lutter with in that triangle putting him in a perfect postion to elbow the shit out of him…
30,000 thousand for the Champ that guy is one of the most unstoppable guys in the UFC and thats all he gets. He is number one in the world or maybe number 2 behind the “axe murder” they should have put a number one in front of that three that is just bull crap.
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Cote and Machida were also taxed. I only included Cro Cops because it was so much!
Anderson Silva’s #2 behind Wanderlei? Uhh…they are in two different divisions. He’s #2 behind Matt Lindland
Silva will definately get his money. He might have signed a low budget contract upon entering the UFC because he was unknown to UFC fans and nobody thought he would take the division by storm the way he did. If he is under some kind of weak contract, I would definately get it renegotiated before his next fight. How could the UFC not see him as worth the money? I don’t care what language he speaks verbally cause he speaks beat down in the octagon. And people might wonder why Machida is getting ok cash if they don’t know who he is. He the guy that gave Rich Franklin his first loss and he’s also beaten BJ Penn so look for this guy to start getting more play as well
I can’t believe the salaries for Cro Cop and Rampage. Even Machida’s $18,000 guarantee was high for someone making his UFC debut. Sure, these guys have the potential to be huge in the league, but they’re not the champs yet. Are these payouts so high because UFC must honor their WFA contracts, which reportedly paid salaries so high that they crushed the organization? Even if these were the WFA deals, Eastman and Sanchez took home tons of cash, considering their records and rankings in the division. I guess “TRavis” is right – they got paid well to be sacrificial lambs. Do you know how much $30,000 is for a guy on a correctional officer’s salary? Christmas came early for the Eastman family.
I wouldn’t mind taking a beating off Cro Cop for 30k lol
Some of the guys on the undercard could technically be described as the working poor. My wife’s sister makes more money flipping burgers.
I don’t understand why Silva got less to defend a title, than Rampage got to beat-up a tomato can. Maybe that explains Silva’s unimpressive performance.
Yeah i dont get silvas lowsy pay, im sure he has to be under the same contract that he signed before the Leben fight. He probably didnt even know he would be champ in his second fight. Im sure the money will come, people love watching him. I would say he was getting a lot of money from sponsors, like chuck lidell does, but the fact that he doesnt speak english might hold him back from big money sponsors. I can see Cro Cops big money, to rip him away from Pride, I dont get Rampage, it seems like they could get him to fight in the UFC for way less.
no doubt Silva is getting ripped. For sure it has to have something to do with his current contract. His agent should have been alot smarter, for he already a badass before is UFC arrival.
Rampage, I don’t know if you can beat Tito.
From day one, a lot of guys negotiate pay days and never want to relinquish control to an agent. An agent knows the market and recognizes what comparable fighters are getting. He may have just settled for too small an amount. The reason Rampage and Cro Cop got the six-figure number is to lure them from their other circuits. Kudos to Zuffa for a decent card and I’m looking forward to the talent on March 3rd in Ohio.
What I don’t get is why Lutter only got $20K fighting for the Middleweight TITLE, while Eddie Sanchez got $30K to be Mirko Filopovich’s stepping stone. They both lost, but Lutter was in line for an actual TITLE. Seems strange to me.