Check out the salaries of the fighters from UFC 58:
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Tom Murphy – $5,000 to show $5,000 to win. Total $10,000
Icho Laurenas – $3,000
Josh Lambert – $2,000 to show $2,000 to win. Total $4,000
Rob McDonald – $5,000
Sam Stout – $2,000 to show $2,000 to win. Total $4,000
Spencer Fisher – $8,000
Mark Hominick – $2,000 to show $2,000 to win. Total $4,000
Yves Edwards – $8,000
Nathan Marquart – $15,000 to show $15,000 to win. Total $30,000
Joe Doerkson – $5,000
George St Pierre – $24,000 to show $24,000 to win. $48,000
B.J. Penn – $25,000
Mike Swick – $5,000 to show $5,000 to win. $10,000
Seve Vigneault – $2,000
Rich Franklin – $16,000 to show $16,000 to win. $34,000
David Loiseau – $9,000
TOTAL PURSE $209,000The UFC 57 card was three times the amount as this past UFC 58 card as UFC 57 paid out $666,000 for the total purse. Liddell and Couture combined for $500,000.
Damn, most of these guys get paid peanuts for what they do!
And keep in mind that 99.9999% of the work is done outside of the Octagon, and from what I understand, they don’t get paid for putting in the hours of blood, sweat and tears for the preparations of a fight. But it goes to show that these fighters really love what they do if they’re fighting for this kind of money.
Check out what Dr. J and FightOpinion had to say about this.
