UFC 94 Salaries

I see their payouts as particularly low for the “biggest fight in UFC history”. With all the hype that went into this match, I’m very surprised at how low the salaries are for Penn and GSP. How can both fighters make so littel comparableto how much the UFC made on the pap per view. Penn only get $125,000? That isn’t right. His and GSP’s fame/talent are what sold most of the pay-per-views and the gate, so unless they get a % of the PPV’s.

Salaries for UFC 94 main event winner Georges St. Pierre led the way with a $400,000 payday while TUF alum Matt Arroyo brought up the rear with $8,000. The total discloses salary total for UFC 94 was $1,057,000. UFC 94 attracted a sell-out crowd of 14,885 for an estimated live gate of $4.3 million.

Not withstanding the Pay per view numbers nad merchandise sales which will put the total profit for the UFC above 300 million by most estimates.

Here are the complete figures according to MMAWeekly.com:

• Georges St. Pierre: $400,000 ($200,000 to show plus $200,000 to win)
• Lyoto Machida: $185,000 ($60,000 to show; $60,000 to win; and $65,000 for “Knockout of the Night”)
• B.J. Penn: $125,000 (would have earned an additional $125,000 had he won)
• Clay Guida: $105,000 ($20,000 to show; $20,000 to win; and $65,000 for “Fight of the Night”)
• Nate Diaz: $85,000 ($20,000 to show and $65,000 for “Fight of the Night”;would have earned an additional $20,000 had he won)
• Karo Parisyan: $80,000 ($40,000 to show and $40,000 to win)
• Chris Wilson: $80,000 ($15,000 to show and $65,000 for “Fight of the Night”; would have earned an additional $15,000 had he won)
• John Howard: $71,000 ($3,000 to show; $3,000 to win; and $65,000 for “Fight of the Night”)
• Jon Fitch: $68,000 ($34,000 to show and $34,000 to win)
• Thiago Silva: $29,000 (would have earned an additional $29,000 had he won)
• Akihiro Gono: $28,000 (would have earned an additional $28,000 had he won)
• Dong Hyun Kim: $26,000 (would have earned an additional $26,000 had he won)
• Thiago Tavares: $26,000 ($13,000 to show and $13,000 to win)
• Stephan Bonnar: $22,000 (would have earned an additional $22,000 had he won)
• Manny Gamburyan: $14,000 (would have earned an additional $14,000 had he won)
• Dan Cramer: $16,000 ($8,000 to show and $8,000 to win)
• Jon Jones: $14,000 ($7,000 to show and $7,000 to win)
• Matt Arroyo: $8,000 (would have earned an additional $8,000 had he won)

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