NoDQ.com > UFC > Fighter salaries for UFC 82 PPV Posted by Bobby Spade on 03/03/2008 at 05:48 PM
This is the fighter salary information the UFC provided to the Ohio Athletic Commission for the event that took place on 3/1/08. These numbers are only what the UFC paid the fighters.
-UFC Middleweight Championship:
Anderson Silva: $140,000 (defeated Dan Henderson; win bonus was $70,000)
Dan Henderson: $100,000 (lost to Anderson Silva; win bonus would have been $150,000)
*** Anderson Silva won "Submission of the Night and was awarded an extra $60,000
*** Anderson Silva & Dan Henderson won "Fight of the Night" and they were both awarded $60,000 each.
*** This makes an extra $120,000 Anderson Silva made on top of his fight purse.
-Co main event
Heath Herring: $140,000 (defeated Cheick Kongo; win bonus was $70,000)
Cheick Kongo: $30,000 (lost to Heath Herring; win bonus would have been $30,000)
-Fighters on the main card
Jon Fitch: $60,000 (defeated Chris Wilson; win bonus was $30,000)
Chris Leben: $50,000 (defeated Alessio Sakara; win bonus was $25,000)
***Leben earned "Knock Out of the Night and was awarded an extra $60,000 on top of his fight purse.
***This was Leben's first fight under his new contract where previously he was getting $10,000 to show and $10,000 to win. With his new contract he gets $25,000 to show and $25,000 to win.
Yushin Okami: $28,000 (defeated Evan Tanner; win bonus was $14,000)
Evan Tanner: $25,000 (lost to Yushin Okami; win bonus would have been $25,000)
Alessio Sakara: $17,000 (lost to Chris Leben; win bonus would have been $17,000)
Chris Wilson: $12,000 (lost to Jon Fitch; win bonus would have been $12,000)
Fighters on the preliminary bouts
-Andrei Arlovski: $170,000 (defeated Jake O'Brien; win bonus was $65,000)
***This was Arlovski's last fight on his UFC contract and the UFC wants him to take a pay decrease where Arlovski wants a pay increase.
-Diego Sanchez: $60,000 (defeated David Bielkheden; win bonus was $30,000)
-Josh Koscheck: $20,000 (defeated Dustin Hazelett; win bonus was $10,000)
***This was Koscheck's last fight on his UFC deal. The UFC is confident they will resign him.
-Luigi Fioravanti: $16,000 (defeated Luke Cummo; win bonus was $8,000)
-Luke Cummo: $16,000 (lost to Luigi Fioravanti; win bonus would have been $16,000)
-Jorge Gurgel: $14,000 (defeated John Halverson; win bonus was $7,000)
-Dustin Hazelett: $12,000 (lost to Josh Koscheck; win bonus would have been $12,000)
-Jake O'Brien: $11,000 (lost to Andrei Arlovski; win bonus would have been $11,000)
-David Bielkheden: $8,000 (lost to Diego Sanchez; win bonus would have been $8,000)
-John Halverson: $3,000 (lost to Jorge Gurgel; win bonus would have been $3,000)
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