Salary Report: Rashad Evans Tops UFC 156 Payroll | UFC NEWS
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the disclosed fighter salaries from last weekend’s UFC 156 event.
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans, took home the largest cut on the night even in defeat.
His teammate, Alistair Overeem, came in a close second for his third round loss to “Bigfoot” Silva.
The full UFC 156 payroll is as follows:
Jose Aldo: $240,000 (includes $120,000 win bonus)
def. Frankie Edgar: $120,000
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: $174,000 (includes $67,000 win bonus)
def. Rashad Evans: $300,000
Antonio Silva: $70,000 (includes no win bonus)
def. Alistair Overeem: $285,714.29
Demian Maia: $120,000 (includes $60,000 win bonus)
def. Jon Fitch: $66,000
Joseph Benavidez: $60,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def. Ian McCall: $9,000
Evan Dunham: $46,000 (includes $23,000 win bonus)
def. Gleison Tibau: $33,000
Tyron Woodley: $87,000 (includes $43,500 win bonus)
def. Jay Hieron: $12,000
Bobby Green: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Jacob Volkmann: $22,000
Isaac Vallie-Flagg: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Yves Edwards: $21,000
Dustin Kimura: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Chico Camus: $8,000
Francisco Rivera: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus)
def. Edwin Figueroa: $10,000
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Even the UFC is disrespecting Silva , no win bonus.
He got a $50,0000 KO of the night bonus.
I can’t believe you can actually make more money for losing, WTF UFC.
rashad is top 5 in the ufc when it comes to ppv buys. its either gsp or silva for 1 or 2 but im pretty sure chael is 3rd.
I am so sick of people bitching about the pay in UFC. What you morons do not seem to understand is the each fighter’s pay is negotiated separately. Its not like the all powerful ufc gods decide let’s overpay this guy and underpay that guy, as if no one has any say. Every single amount you’re seeing was negotiated with the fighter (or agent) and the ufc.. and the fighter AGREED to the contract. If you notice, the FANS are what determines the pay essentially.. because if they are a more exciting fighter and bigger PPV draw, they get paid more.. regardless of fighting rank or talent. If someone doesn’t like their pay it is up to them to negotiate a better contract and/or become a more marketable fighter. No one in any business is just going to give away money if they don’t have to. It’s a business…
amen.
Yeah yeah yeah it’s a business my heart bleeds for dana and company they must be doing it rough times are tough right! Bigfoot should have got his win bonus EVERYONE gets a win bonus I’ve never seen anyone not get one had overeem won guaranteed he would of got his win bonus the ko of the night Bigfoot deserved because NO ONE thought he’d win that. Also guaranteed will be if Ronda wins she gets a ****ing win bonus
i think the person who wrote this probably didnt know what he made so they didnt write cause everyone gets a win bonus plus he got ko of the night
the most pay and the most boring ass fight I’ve ever seen; go get em’ Rashad.
Playing paddycake pays good!
Rampage was making the same money Reem and Rashad was making and HE feels disrespected? At least everyone on the card had the heart to train and take their fights serious.
Probably already stated but this is not all the money these fighters make. There is a ton of undisclosed money given to these fighters. You’d have to be dumb to think Jose Aldo would be ok with getting paid less than Rashad
Rashad Jus needs to retire. He got paid to get his ass kicked. U really think u have a chance against Jon Jones. U will DEFINATELY get Ur ass beat.
Ian McCall: $9,000 ?
After paying his camp, gas on a car (if he has one) he probably is paying to fight in the UFC.
Wow! 300k for rashad?!! His fights have been boring as of late. It must have been already in his contract the 300k minimum.
Ian McCall only got $9000 damn….
I was just thinking that…and you can’t tell me he got a good taste of the PPV revenues because that’s BS…Dana likes people to believe that they are all millionaires but the fact is the UFC is sticking is to the lower ranked and up-and-coming guys…
Ian McCall only got $9000 damn…
after that piss poor performance ian and rashaad should which checks cause that fight was better than most of the paper view other than reem getting ko by bigfoot and aldo having fun punching frankie the ” i feel cheated ” edger in the face the ppv was ok i give it to bigfoot for most exciting fight cause that ko was crazy then give it to the flyweights cause they fought the whole time everything else was….meh
Wow, UFC don’t pay shit to lower card fights and fighters…even to some card fighters! $300k for a chump performance from Evans? It’s obvious that he’s only fighting for a payday not necessarily to compete. The gate was near 2.5 mil, the payroll total was about 1.7 mil, what did the UFC make on the PPV? It must stuck to only get paid $8k to get punched, kicked, possibly turned into a pretzel and then have to pay out the hospital bills, the training fees, coach fees, blah blah blah. How much money do you have left to train? Can’t be much…
Folks need to chill out… These numbers are just their base salary from just showing up and/or winning. This doesn’t include their PPV cut! Rampage has made about 15+ million since joining the UFC and I dont believe that includes any endorsement deals outside the UFC so feel too bad for any fighters on the main card.
Bottom line is if their wasn’t any $$$ in fighting or the UFC these fighters would be doing something else.
Do you really think Ian McCall is making decent PPV money? If you do your crazy, only the top guys are making decent PPV money. I agree the top guys make big money but the lower guys are getting raped by the UFC
The ufc need to pay their fighters more, they make so much money for each event, and they cant even pay the fighters properly. They train hard for months and get such a shitty pay. Boxers get paid way more and their events dont bring in as much profit as the ufc events do.
wow he should swap cheques with bigfoot.. or any1 who was actually exciting because that was the worst fight iv ever seen
+100!