UFC 139 salaries: Le ($350K) and Henderson ($250K) top fighter payroll
I think its insane that the UFC would only pay a person 4k to fight on the card, especially when the person is fighting a former champion, WTF? (Miguel Torres: $60,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def. Nick Pace: $4,000 )
Man, I can't believe Wanderlei Silva got 200k to fight and Le got 350k, these guys are not even top level. Le was a few years ago, he aint the same fighter. Brian Bowles: $19,000? The guy was a champion and only gets 19k? I dont get these pay scales at all..
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Nov 21, 2011 at 9:10 pm ET
Cung Le, Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua were the top earners at this past weekend's UFC 139 event.
Overall, the 24 fighters competing on the card earned purses totaling $1,524,000.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) recently requested and received the list of disclosed paydays from the California State Athletic Commission.
UFC 139 took place this past Saturday, Nov. 19, at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The night's main card aired on pay-per-view, and the preliminary card aired on Spike TV and streamed on Facebook.
The full payouts included:
Dan Henderson: $250,000 (no win bonus)
def. Mauricio Rua: $165,000
Wanderlei Silva: $200,000 (no win bonus)
def. Cung Le: $350,000
Urijah Faber: $64,000 (includes $32,000 win bonus)
def. Brian Bowles: $19,000
Martin Kampmann: $58,000 (includes $29,000 win bonus)
def. Rick Story: $19,000
Stephan Bonnar: $68,000 (includes $34,000 win bonus)
def. Kyle Kingsbury: $10,000
Ryan Bader: $48,000 (includes $24,00 win bonus)
def. Jason Brilz: $13,000
Michael McDonald: $14,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus)
Alex Soto: $6,000
Chris Weidman: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Tom Lawlor: $12,000
Gleison Tibau: $34,000 (includes $17,000 win bonus)
def. Rafael Dos Anjos: $16,000
Miguel Torres: $60,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def. Nick Pace: $4,000
Seth Baczynski: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Matt Brown: $12,000
Danny Castillo: $34,000 (includes $17,000 win bonus)
def. Shamar Bailey: $8,000
