The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighters salaries from this past weekends Pride event. Official live gate numbers and revenue were not reported as of yet. There also were no reported fighter bonuses for winning their respective fight.
- Fedor Emelianenko - $100,000
- Mark Coleman - $70,000
- Kevin Randleman - $40,000
- Mauricio Rua - $25,000
- Pawel Nastula - $20,000
- Josh Barnett - $60,000
- Sean O’Haire - $15,000
- Eric Esch - $30,000
- Vitor Belfort - $30,000
- Dan Henderson -$50,000
- Yosuke Nishijim - $15,000
- Phil Baroni - $15,000
- Travis Galbraith - $2,000
- Kazuhiro Nakamura - $10,000
- Joey Villasenor - $3,000
- Robbie Lawler- $10,000
Very interesting numbers if you ask me. After all the fan backlash the UFC receives when their fighter payouts are released after each event, it now appears and UFC is very much in line and perhaps even pays their fighters more than Pride FC. Again, it is unknown if Pride gives fighter bonuses for winning, so these numbers could be just the base payout. Then again, maybe they aren’t. Some people are speculating that Pride is not paying fighter bonuses until the fighters return to Japan in order to avoid paying taxes on the bonus amounts.
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And at the same time, the people bitchin’ about UFC payouts don’t know exactly what bonuses the UFC pays. Eat it haters.
Pride’s always paid this much, it’s the UFC has had to step up and pay their stars what they are worth. I don’t hate on the UFC I just think it’s sad when a fighter of Rich Franklin’s Caliber pulls down 16k for winning a title fight. That doesn’t happen in pride or K1.
That is ********!!! Robbie Lawler got 75000$
@Davlat
where did u here that robbie lawler got $75000?
*hear*
[...] to see his payslips was courtesy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission for Pride: The Real Deal. According to the NSAC he was paid 100k. Although according to Josh Barnett, those numbers aren’t accurate at all [...]