UFC 73 = Fighter Paychecks UFC 73: OFFICIAL PURSE, ATTENDANCE FIGURES The California State Athletic Commission has released official attendance and fighters purse figures for Saturday's UFC 73 "Stacked." The promotion's return to the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif. yielded 8,622 tickets sold for a $1,551,920.00 grossed gate. A final attendance figure of 13,183 spectators watched light heavyweights Tito Ortiz and Rashad Evans battle to a draw, while UFC champions Sean Sherk and Anderson Silva successfully defended their titles. UFC 73 "Stacked" Reported Purses Frank Edgar - $5,000 + $5,000 win bonus Mark Bocek - $3,000 Jorge Gurgel - $7,000 + $7,000 win bonus Diego Saraiva - $3,000 Stephan Bonnar - $16,000 + $16,000 win bonus Mike Nickels - $5,000 Chris Lytle - $10,000 + $10,000 win bonus Jason Gilliam - $3,000 Kenny Florian - $8,000 + $8,000 win bonus Alvin Robinson - $3,000 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - $100,000 + $100,000 win bonus Heath Herring - $70,000 UFC Lightweight Championship Sean Sherk - $14,000 + $14,000 win bonus Hermes Franca - $14,000 UFC Middleweight Championship Anderson Silva - $45,000 + $45,000 win bonus Nathan Marquardt - $24,000 Tito Ortiz - $210,000 Rashad Evans - $16,000 POSTED -- 07/09/07 What has me fucked up is ,how in the hell is the champion getting the same amount of pay as the challenger.Sherk took it up the ass in that deal
both Sherk and Franca should have made more than $14,000, wtf? :dunno: :doh: :kick: Every champion they have should be making like $140,000 , not $14,000.
14,000 for a championship match is a complete joke.Stephan Boner made more than Sherk,that's bullshit:shit:
:: Sean Sherk made a flat guarantee of $14,000????? No wonder he was calling out Floyd Mayweather Jr. Seriously, I'm shocked at how guys like Sherk can stay motivated and train so hard, knowing that they're getting such sh*t pay. The f*cking champion of the UFC just made $28,000. Oh.........God!!!! :doh: Hell even our buddy Tha Pitbull was making more money than that winning martial arts tournys and he got bored with it cause those $50K paycheques were bullsh*t money and not worth his time. I gotta have mad respect for guys like Sherk who can stay motivated to train while being paid like a cheap-sh*t street whore. :clap:
Rashad Evans.....$16,000 :laughing: I think Joe Rogan is right. All future boxing stars will become MMA stars. I mean.....doesn't every kid want to be super rich and famous? MMA is the way to go!!!!!!!::
I have been enjoying MMA recently, but I may boycott it just for this. Sean Sherk the LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION, makes 14 fucking grand? That's a complete fucking joke, and it's sick that dana and the other cunts at UFC are happy to pay the fighters such pathetic money.
I love how attached Sherk is to his crappy belt. "Oh you're gonna have to kill me to take my belt!!!!" The worth of that belt is $14,000 max by the looks of it. ::
If the Pride and WFA fighters wasn't under there old contract,lord knows how much they would be making right now.
Considering the way he fought, his performance was probably only worth $16,000. Ortiz deserved the same instead of the 210K he made.
Where did you pull that from?? I never got paid for winning any gold medals and I never claimed I did.:notallthere: I worry about you some times Hanzy.
Oh sorry Pit! :doh: I thought there was a running joke on here a couple years back about somebody who retired from competing at age 15 cause they got tired of winning. Might've been somebody else.
UFC 73 Attendance By Luke Thomas Posted on Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 01:56:20 PM EDT http://www.bloodyelbow.com/main/2 Stacked attendance? Not so much. The numbers don't lie: Capacity - 16,811 Deadwood - 3,628 Exempt Passes - 4,561 Sold - 8,622 Total Attendance - 13,183 Gross Receipts - $1,551,920.00 When a UFC event scores less than $2 million in live gate receipts, the show was anything but stacked. Zach Arnold has more: Look at the figures - 8,622 paid. They did a little under 8,000 in Ireland. This may sound like piling on here, but I've been saying far and wide in media outlets that once UFC gets out of the casino zones, they struggle to cultivate big crowds without the casino power and Vegas-style advantages. It puts that tremendous Columbus crowd into perspective (meaning it reflects well on the Ohio folks). What does it indicate? As boxing promoter Bob Arum put it in a recent Yahoo Sports article, once you leave Las Vegas you have to start using some elbow grease to attract larger crowds. Word to Zuffa: get to scrubbing.