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Official UFC 58 numbers

March 13th, 2006 | by Dr J

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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 $209,000

Pretty poor numbers if you ask me. UFC57 between Liddell and Couture netted a total purse of $666,000 compared to this total of only $209,000. There were officially a total of 8,183 paid tickets at the live event for a total payout of $1,758,450. Who knows how many people paid $34.95 to watch this event on pay-per-view, but lets be conservative and round the number up to only $2,000,000. This means that the fighters only received approximately 10% of the total money.

When one of your champions is only making a base amount of $16,000 that is pretty sad. I know Rich signed his seven fight deal a while ago, but with several title defenses he deserves to renegotiate his deal. I guess its a good representation of his character that he is honoring his contract. The man he fought, David Loiseau only made $9,000. Loiseau fought for the belt and he only make 9k, but I guess after seeing the fight, he didn’t deserve much more.

2 Comments »

 
Comment by Brooks about 1 year, 11 months ago

it is a sad payout to these guys risking their health to entertain others, but thats is the game, to see how much money the promoter can stuff in his pockets while ******** fighters. Promoters are typically not ethical people, not good at all, thats why they do these things without conscience.

 
Comment by PATRICK about 1 year, 2 months ago

DAMM DOC…. THIS ARE PROBABLY THE LOWEST NUMBERS IN AN EVENT IVE EVER SEEN

 
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