UFC 81 Pay Scale, Fighter Salaries, Nevada State Athletic Commission

UFC 81 Pay Scale and Fighter Salaries

by Stan Leung
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February 4, 2008

The Nevada State Athletic Commission regulates all contests or exhibitions of boxing, including the licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, mixed martial artists, karate boxers, seconds, ring officials, managers, and matchmakers.

UFC 81: Breaking Point Mixed Martials Arts Show Results

DATE: February 2. 2008

Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Referee: Steve Mazzagatti Visiting Referees: Herb Dean, Yves Lavigne

Judges: Adalaide Byrd, Patricia Morse Jarman, Al Lefkowitz, Glenn Trowbridge, Tony Weeks

Visiting Judges: Jeff Collins, Nelson Hamilton, Cecil Peoples

Timekeepers: Steve Esposito, Mike LaCella

Ringside Doctors: Al Capanna, Anthony Ruggeroli, William Berliner, Jeff Davidson

Ring Announcer: Bruce Buffer

Promoter: Zuffa, LLC

Matchmaker: Dana White

Nevada State Athletic Commission outlining the salaries that the fighters received at UFC 81. Also provided are the medical suspensions levied to six fighters.

Also included in the list below (not included in NSAC documents) are the bonuses that the UFC paid for fight of the night, KO of the night, and submission of the night.

Fighters pay salary

Tim Sylvia - $100,000 plus an additional $60,000 for ‘fight of the night.’

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - $200,000 plus an additional $60,000 for ‘fight of the night.’ He is also is suspended until March 2 with no contact until February 24.

Brock Lesnar - $250,000

Frank Mir - $80,000 plus an additional $60,000 for ’submission of the night.’ He is suspended until March 2 with no contact until February 24.

Nate Marquardt - $52,000

Jeremy Horn - $25,000

Ricardo Almeida - $40,000

Robert Yundt - $5,000

Tyson Griffin - $36,000

Gleison Tibau - $11,000

Chris Lytle - $24,000 plus an additional $60,000 for “KO of the night’.

Kyle Bradley - $4,000. He is suspended until March 19 with right facial lacerations with no contact until March 2.

David Heath - $6,000. He must clear a nasal fracture with a doctor or no contest until August 1. Minimum suspension until April 3 with no contact until March 19.

Tim Boetsch -$12,000

Terry Martin - $12,000

Marvin Eastman - $14,000. He is suspended until March 2 with a right upper eyelid laceration with no contact until February 24.

Robert Emerson - $16,000

Keita Nakamura - $5,000. He is suspended until March 19 with no contact until March 2.

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Fighters pay salary