“Affliction:Banned” Official Salaries
The total disclosed payroll for the event was $3,332,100.
The full list of salaries included:
Fedor Emelianenko: $300,000 (no win bonus)
def. Tim Sylvia: $800,000Andrei Arlovski: $750,000 (includes $250,000 win bonus)
def. Ben Rothell: $250,000Josh Barnett: $300,000 (no win bonus)
def. Pedro Rizzo: $70,000Mark Hominick: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
def. Savant Young: $7,000Renato “Babalu” Sobral: $90,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
def: Mike Whitehead: $50,000Matt Lindland: $300,000 (includes $75,000 win bonus)
def. Fabio Nascimento: $20,00OAntonio Rogerio Nogueira: $50,000 (no win bonus)
def. Edwin Dewees: $15,000Mike Pyle: $20,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
JJ Ambrose: $5,000Ray Lizama: $3,000
vs. Justin Levens: $6000*Vitor Belfort: $140,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus)
Terry Martin: $30,000Paul Buentello: $80,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus)
vs. Gary Goodridge: $25,000* – Fight postponed due to time constraints. Both fighters paid negotiated salaries.
***-These are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
Wow@ Tim Sylvia getting paid that much money for getting his ass whipped in 36 seconds. With the amount of money that Affliction spent on their first show….it’ll be amazing if they last more than 3 shows.
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July 22, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I saw someone suggest this on another site so it’s not really my idea but here it is…
Could Affliction potentially hide part of a fighter’s salary inside their sponsorship deal through Affliction Clothing with a fighter?
That way they could write part of a fighter’s salary off as a business expense because it’s hidden in the sponsorship.
Could that explain what seems to be a low payday for Fedor?
Or is Fedor getting a bonus tied to PPV revenue?
Or is $300,000 really all Fedor made?
July 22, 2008 at 2:52 pm
mattman…I really can’t answer that out-right…however,I think Fedor got a signing bonus of some sort before the fight…and will get a % of the PPV. I read somewhere(can’t remember the source) that his final payday total will be around 1.5 million.
July 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm
That $1.5 million is what I thought rumor had him getting paid also.
So I was quite surprised to see only $300,000 for Fedor.
There isn’t no way to find out what PPV bonus a fighter gets is there?
July 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I think he was paid prior to the show…so that’s why they only reported the 300,000. As far as what PPV bonus a fighter gets…it’s determined by the organization.
Here’s one model though…If the PPV get’s 100,000-150,000 buys…the fighter gets $1 per buy…if the PPV get’s 200,000-300,000 the fighter it’s $2 per buy…if the PPV get’s 500,000 buys…the fighter get’s $3 per buy…or something to that effect…but that’s not verbatim.