2010 UFC Fighter Salaries

the_doctor199

Some interesting stats here for who earned the most in 2010 (obviously doesn't include sponsorships, PPV cuts etc)

1 Georges St-Pierre * $ 900,000
2 Michael Bisping* $ 885,000
3 Brock Lesnar $ 875,000
4 Rashad Evans $ 785,000
5 Rampage Jackson* $ 750,000
6 B.J. Penn * $ 680,000
7 Matt Hughes* $ 560,000
8 Anderson Silva * $ 520,000
9 Chuck Liddell $ 500,000
10 James Toney $ 500,000
11 Randy Couture $ 500,000
12 Mirko Cro Cop* $ 460,000
13 Lyoto Machida* $ 400,000
14 Wanderlei Silva* $ 400,000
15 Cain Velasquez * $ 390,000
16 Chris Leben $ 316,000
17 Mauricio Rua $ 315,000
18 Matt Serra* $ 300,000
19 Junior dos Santos $ 260,000
20 Josh Koscheck * $ 259,000

Insufficient Data Available to Predict Salaries:

Dan Hardy
Renzo Gracie
Mark Hunt

Full list of fighters can be found here: Link

Professey Chin

Bisping?Really?
Christ

Mr. Loverman

Their salaries make no sense.

2 Michael Bisping* $ 885,000
4 Rashad Evans $ 785,000
...
15 Cain Velasquez * $ 390,000
17 Mauricio Rua $ 315,000
20 Josh Koscheck * $ 259,000

Oh_Noes

Wow, wouldn't have expected Michael Bisping to have made so much even though he fought three times. BJ Penn even fought three times and made 200K less.

And James Toney got half a million for that one fight :eek:

Fozzy

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

Their salaries make no sense.

2 Michael Bisping* $ 885,000
4 Rashad Evans $ 785,000
...
15 Cain Velasquez * $ 390,000
17 Mauricio Rua $ 315,000
20 Josh Koscheck * $ 259,000

Don't worry, they're all getting bonuses not included there, some of them very big bonuses. Velasquez, Evans and Koscheck all would have made a lot more than what's listed there because they were in the main events of three of the biggest shows this year

Lesnar would be way ahead of Bisping in actual terms too, he didn't get any win bonus for beating Carwin so he would have received some other sort of bonus, and he also gets a cut of the PPV, and he headlined two 1 million-plus shows last year so that's going to be a massive bonus

SDTimeout

iirc it's done in terms of who can pull a biggest draw in terms of TV revenue.

Bisping is hated over in the US and the UK fans want to see him do well. Win win.

racso1975

Looks like the 60k brandon vera got will

be going on nose surgery

Mellor

They aren't salarys, they are earnings. Big difference.

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Wow, wouldn't have expected Michael Bisping to have made so much even though he fought three times. BJ Penn even fought three times and made 200K less.

BJ also lost twice taking out a decent chuck of cash as a win bonus.
Bisping fought 3 times, for 2 wins on biggish cards.

1 Georges St-Pierre * $ 900,000 2-0
2 Michael Bisping* $ 885,000 2-1
3 Brock Lesnar $ 875,000 1-1
4 Rashad Evans $ 785,000 2-0
5 Rampage Jackson* $ 750,000 1-1
6 B.J. Penn * $ 680,000 1-2
7 Matt Hughes* $ 560,000 2-1
8 Anderson Silva * $ 520,000 2-0
9 Chuck Liddell $ 500,000 0-1
10 James Toney $ 500,000 0-1
11 Randy Couture $ 500,000 2-0
12 Mirko Cro Cop* $ 460,000 2-1
13 Lyoto Machida* $ 400,000 0-2
14 Wanderlei Silva* $ 400,000 1-0
15 Cain Velasquez * $ 390,000 2-0
16 Chris Leben $ 316,000 3-0
17 Mauricio Rua $ 315,000 1-0
18 Matt Serra* $ 300,000 1-1
19 Junior dos Santos $ 260,000 3-0
20 Josh Koscheck * $ 259,000 1-1

When you look at the records for 2010, Bisping is much less surprising.
Brock, Chuck and Machida did well for themselves in payouts
JDS is clearly still on a ****ty debut contract.