MMAmania.com has received the fighter payouts from Elite XC: “Heat” from the Florida State Boxing Commission for the CBS event held on October 4 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.
Main event loser and hometown favorite Kimbo Slice pocketed half a million dollars for his 14 second loss to “The Ultimate Fighter 2″ alum Seth Petruzelli. Slice missed out on a $100,000 win bonus as well.
Petruzelli reported on a radio program earlier today that he made six figures for the win … he was half right, according to the commission, anyway. He took home $50,000 for stepping up at the last minute and shocking the world.
The Affliction/Elite XC co-promoted heavyweight bout participants were paid out by the tee shirt company turned MMA organization. The former UFC champ Andrei Arlovski earned $500,000 for his second round technical knockout win. Roy Nelson walked away with $80,000.
Elite XC’s other top two earners were Welterweight Champion Jake Shields ($50,000) in his first title defense and Murilo “Ninja” Rua ($35,000) in a loss.
Here are the entire payouts and bonuses for Elite XC: “Heat”:
Seth Petruzelli — $50,000 ($35,000 to show, $15,000 to win)
Kimbo Slice — $500,000
Petruzelli defeated Slice via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
Jake Shields — $50,000 ($40,000 to show, $10,000 to win)
Paul Daley — $12,000
Shields defeated Daley via submission (armbar) in round two
Andrei Arlovski — $500,000
Roy Nelson — $80,000
Arlovski defeated Nelson via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
Gina Carano — $25,000 ($15,000 to show, $10,000 to win)
Kelly Kobald — $6,000
Carano defeated Kobald via unanimous decision
Benji Radach — $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 to win)
Murilo Rua — $35,000
Radach defeated Rua via knockout (strikes) in round two
Cyborg Santos — $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)
Yoko Takahashi — $2,000
Cyborg defeated Takahashi via unanimous decision
Conor Heun — $5,000 ($2,500 to show, $2,500 to win)
James Edson Berto — $6,000
Heun defeated Berto via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
Mikey Gomez — $4,000 ($2,000 to show, $2,000 to win)
Lorenzo Borgomeo — $1,500
Gomez defeated Borgomeo via submission (armbar) in round two
Bryan Hamade — $1,000 ($500 to show, $500 to win)
David Gomez — $1,000
Hamade defeated Gomez via submission (guillotine) in round one
Nicolae Curry — $1,500 ($750 to show, $750 to win)
Jorge Boechat — $1,000
Curry defeated Boechat via submission (strikes) in round one
Keep in mind the salaries listed above do not include fight bonuses, sponsorships, percentages and other unofficial payments. It also does not include deductions for expenses such as insurance, taxes, etc.
The total base fighter payroll for the CBS event was $1,319,000. Affliction MMA payed $580,000 of that total for the heavyweight bout between Andrei Arlovski and Roy Nelson.
For complete results and coverage of “Heat” click here.
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Half a million!!!!!!!!!!!
May-be Tito Ortiz will get $750,000 to $1 mil per fight.He is worth twice as much as Kimbo.
Kimbo got paid $35,714 per second in his fight. That’s around the average American per year
thats pretty disheartening isnt it? were in a pretty depressing time right now…
did buddy Rosa make any money for showing up and not fighting Seth???
Andre is a GENIUS!!!! Smarter than my own pit.
It’s disgusting isn’t it. I’d definitely get KO’ed numerous times for that amount of money per fight.
Might have to submit a few staged “street fighting videos” to youtube or Elite XC lol. Hopefully the brutal KO’s don’t look like fresh airs.
what would kimbo have gotten if he had won?
Good point. Can’t help having a bit of respect for him negotiating a deal like that. Only Chuck has gotten that much in the UFC if i’m not mistaken and thats with a win bonus.
Thats five times big Nogs basic or twice Brocks!!!
he would have gotten 600,000. read the article. he was paid 500,000 and missed out on a 100,000 win bonus.
dana white always talks about how he treats fighters fair. what’s with Nog making 100k per fight an brock getting 250k per fight. Nog’s the 2nd best HW in the world and he’s went up against top competition for about 8 years running, where’s his respect??!! it’s an HONOR for dana and the ufc to have a man of that caliber ’skill wise and personal wise’ fighting for their organization, not the other way around
I agree that nog should get paid more but he isn’t a huge draw for american fans. Also paydays like this must be why Elite is in the red.
This is why the UFC isnt about to fold.. Elite XC pays a sucky fighter 500K, thats not respect, thats just bad business!!
This is way Elite isn’t going to fold. If i was in the UFC i would get out as fast as possible. Go to another organization that pays better. Trump invested in Affliction, he isn’t a billionaire by accident. Pay the money and the fighters will come. Short term losses means nothing. Look at a 5 year plan. I see UFC falling from the top.
Sorry Kid but Elite is 58 million in the read and the gate was only a little over $800,000 dollars. Can we say negative revenue. Moreover the CBS deal is more of a pay to play deal with the only up side going to CBS. In addition their socalled “star fighter” got exposed as a novice at best and their chief (Shaw Jr) decompensated himself to the level of a professional wrestling script writers. This is no future my friend, again u can hate on the UFC for the BS it pulls but still have the testicular fortitude to call a spade a spade and a duck a duck.
thats RED, damn keyboard
600k
anyways guys, got to drop my famly at the airport and work, I’ll give my full write up and thoughts tomorrow!
zomg i cant wait.
haha
Arlovski’s and Ferguson’s salaries are moronic. Elite XC and Affliction must be out of their minds. I wonder how a guy like Shields feels when a no talent like Ferguson gets $500 000?
aa deserves the money.
He deserves more than $500,000. He is a top 5 fighter on the planet and extremely marketable. Kimbo is a f**king joke, Can you guys stop supporting that prick over there. A bum off the street … he’ll have to actually fight real fighters soon … at which point continue to lose and then fade away …. ahhhh that will be nice.
Kimbo made $128,571,429 per hour based on his actual fighting time. Not a bad rate.
hell i’d get knocked out for half that. Sign me up to fight seth
Subtract the gate and the net is $90,433 or so. I’m sure Tito is going to be signing that contract any day now. Just his purse alone would be more than the gate. You think he’s gonna want to take less than Kimbo? Shit like this among other things is why is often refer to these roundmouths as un-Elite XC.
Seth said he was getting paid 6 figures but only 75k was reported so there is 100k or so that was left out. So they are in the red before you even factor in all other costs.
Gina needs to renegotiate her contract.
she should have got another 25k just for the national tv stripdown
I bet half that $25k was in $1.00 bills.
hahaha
Yeah, they need to insure those canckles.
you got some kind of foot fetish. The rest of Gina is gourgeous.
She has flabby arms and talks like Jeff Spicolli too.
hey that burn on me earlier was uncalled for mex, with a handle like mexicutioner, i figure you would support most mexican fighters and be proud of your heritage, but apparently youre just a d*ck who rips on people whenever they open themselves up, thanks again
It wasn’t even a rip. This is your question, my answer, your follow up question, and my answer for all to see:
brenden: “you dont want to see Lawler Villasenor and Alvarez/Diaz?”
me: “Alvarez/Diaz yes. I could care less about Lawler/Villasenor.”
brendan:”dont care about your fellow mexican?”
me: “Yeah, thats how I normally decide weather or not I want to watch someone fight, is if they are mexican or not. You’re the man.”
Far from a rip. Sorry if I hurt your feelings. And wasn’t this yesterday? Quit being so sensitive.
the cankle thing is getting so stale. we get it.
your sarcasm was just oozing off your last sentence and its insulting, i didnt mean anything negative by my statement, no need to jump all over me
Get over it man, stop acting like a girl about it. Move on and start talking to someone who cares what you have to say… although you’ll be far and few to find anyone who does.
What happen to sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. Damn our worlds been pussified.
Maybe you should post some pics of your girlfriend, and we’ll all decide who is hotter. I already know the answer, solely based on the fact that Gina doesn’t have an inflation valve!
Kimbo would have made an extra 100k for a win, according to the above article.
No wonder Kimbo was happy with the loss, he walked out of there with a cool half million.
Kimbo got a nice slice of cash
in a way hes still a winner with that amount of money… same as chuck thats alot of money
arlovski got the same too
TO WIN!!!
oh i know, not half as ridiculous as getting it for 14 seconds of getting punched. but still ridiculous
AA has been around the block enough and is ranked high enough to garner that type of money. Kimbo, no.
1 million between two guys, That’s insane! I would love to get into the cage for a half million, win or lose, i don’t care who it is!!!
“silver back” is no can, give him some credit. kimbo is ok in my book, give him a couple more fights and then judge him.
based on how good he really is, jake shields should be getting paid way more. he should move to ufc where he can get paid double his salary for a win bonus plus ko of the night, submission of the night, fight of the night bonuses. plus going up the against the top contenders, possibly the champ, and getting himself more exposure.
gina carano should also be making more cuz i think she brings in alot of american gladiator fans.
jack don’t know jack. How is Jake Shields ever going to get KO of the night? He has zero stand up. His take downs were shit. He would never fight for a title because he would be demolished by GSP. He is the most one-dimensional fighter ever mentioned in the top five of any weight class. The only exposure he would receive for going to the UFC is being exposed as a non contender. And even if Gina Carano brings in all 50 of the American Gladiator fans she wouldn’t be worth any more money to EXC or any other fight organization. She is getting paid peanuts compared to Kimbo which is unfair but women’s MMA isn’t what pays the bills for EXC.
No way is Shields top 5 in the world. Any of the top 8 WWs in UFC tear him apart.
he got as much as arlovski damm. just to take a quick beating…
that’s retarded, no wonder elite xc is losing money right left and center. kimbo makes 500k, and roy nelson makin 80k? wtf. then again i also can’t believe how many fighters they paid $2,000 or less (3 with 1,000 and 2 that needed wins to earn $1,500, and people bitch about ufc paydays), brutal! by the way, Liddell makes 500k no matter win or lose plus bonuses and ppv revenues, but he also brings in a lot bigger crowds, and oh ya, he can also fight (not sure about it anymore but i’m routin’ for him to get back in the game, don’t think he’ll ever hold another title tho, still he used to be very good and great to watch)
nelson was paid by affliction.
one more thing, Jake Shields is good but he wouldn’t be at the top of the food chain in the ufc welterweight division. i thought it was funny when he called out GSP in his last show, GSP would murder this guy. shield has a lot of potential but right now he wouldn’t be about to even handle kos, sanchez, fitch, or alves. i was not impressed with him on saturday although he did win it was not against the top of the division and he still struggled. a few more years and we’ll see what happens
Shields is decent, but no where near the top 5 or so at his weight in the UFC. That armbar was slow and way too obvious for the top tier guys to be submitted with (ask Hazlett how it is done).
Shields is pretty damn good i think… hes one of 3 caesar gracie welterweights, thats saying something
wow, Jake Shields made only 10% of what kimbo did, and shields actually won! well I’ll be a bats asshole if shock value doesn’t mean everything.
$500,000.00 for the Sliceman. Think how many competent HW fighters EXC could have put on that card for 500K combined. They wasted that money on a relatively untrained street brawler who sucks in every range. Amazing.
This is why all the excessive babbling about fighters being underpaid can backfire on everyone. Promotions go too far in the other direction trying to make sure they pay their fighters well, and you end up with a novice like Kimbo getting overpaid by several orders of magnitude. It’s ridiculous.
I wonder if they still paid the guy who was gonna fight Petruzelli. Given he probably would have only made like a thousand dollars, lol. Still, it wasnt his fault what happened.
These payouts make me sick. Undercard fighters bringing home less than 2 grand with a win while the company is throwing 6 figures at dudes like kimbo!? That is an absolute crime. Not to mention gina carano is their biggest marketing tool next to kimbo and she’s only getting 15,000 to show? Terrible, just terrible.
$500k for Kimbo?? No wonder he was ok with loosing!? Who wouldn’t be ok with getting knocked out by a jab and make $500k?
I think it is interesting to see that Affliction payed for the AA fight. Pretty smart of them if you think about it. They got to air their commercials, Affliction advertising in the cage and people got to see one of their fighters. I know they paid extra for the advertising but I think it helps them build their brand in the MMA world as they got to put their product on a major network.
I am sure Tito will get around $1m per fight plus incentives if he signs with Elite. He has at least twice the marketing power that of Kimbo and he is a better fighter with some history in the industry. He does deserve some credit whether you are a fan or not.
Serious payday for the Pitbull. I’d much rather see Andrei fight Overeem than Mirko. That could be a really top fight. Hopefully Andrei would break his face.
As in break Alistair’s face not his own.
yeah good call. mirko will not beat overeem, that much was obvious from the last fight.
I would pay gina 25,000 to bang me all week long- I think is better than training for three months and fighting for only 25,000!
I think she would disagree.