WEC 45 Fighter Salaries: Benavidez and Cerrone Top Earners
Joseph Benavidez and Donald Cerrone, main card winners at Saturday’s WEC 45 in Las Vegas, topped the payroll for the Versus-televised event, according to official fighter salaries released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Benavidez earned $25,000 for his win over Rani Yahya, while Cerrone took home $24,000 for his victory over Ed Ratcliff in the WEC 45 headliner. Other top earners included Chris Horodecki ($12,000), Ratcliff ($9,000), and Yahya ($9,000).
The official salaries for WEC 45 were:
- Donald Cerrone ($24,000 – includes $12,000 win bonus) def. Ed Ratcliff ($9,000)
- Anthony Njokuani ($8,000 – $4,000 win bonus)def. Chris Horodecki ($12,000)
- Joseph Benavidez ($25,000 – $12,500 win bonus)def. Rani Yahya ($9,000)
- Scott Jorgensen ($14,000 – $7,000 win bonus) def. Takeya Mizugaki ($8,000)
- Bart Palaszewski ($10,000 – $5,000 win bonus) def. Anthony Pettis ($3,000)
- Zach Micklewright ($4,000 – $2,000 win bonus) def. Muhsin Corbbrey ($4,000)
- Chad George ($5,000 – $2,000 win bonus) def. John Hosman ($3,000)
- Brandon Visher ($6,000 – $3,000 win bonus) def. Courtney Buck ($3,000)
- Brad Pickett ($6,000 – $3,000 win bonus) def. Kyle Dietz ($2,000)
- Erik Koch ($4,000 – $2,000 win bonus) def. Jameel Massouh ($3,000)
In addition to the salaries listed above, Cerrone and Ratcliff were each awarded $10,000 “Fight of the Night” bonuses, Njokuani earned $10,000 for “Knockout of the Night,” Pickett scored $10,000 for “Submission of the Night,” and Jorgensen and Mizugaki received $5,000 each for an extra “Fight of the Night”.
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Pictured: Joseph Benavidez
Tags: Anthony Njokuani, Anthony Pettis, Bart Palaszewski, Brad Pickett, Brandon Visher, Chad George, Chris Horodecki, Courtney Buck, Donald Cerrone, ed ratcliff, Erik Koch, Jameel Massouh, John Hosman, Joseph Benavidez, Kyle Dietz, Mushin Corbbrey, Rani Yahya, Scott Jorgensen, Takeya Mizugaki, Zach Micklewright
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Why was there no fighter salary post for the last UFC event? or did I miss it?
Tennessee may not require that it be released.
I’d like to see these fighters making more money in the WEC. I know the WEC doesnt bring in the same cash that the UFC does, but this seems so low or most of these fighters. Ratcliff making $9,000 as a main event fighter on a televised card sucks. Hopefully he got a lot of spnsorship money for this fight.
Lets face it, though, WEC on Versus only draws in around a max of 800k viewers, but sometimes as low as 600k, and they hold it in tiny venues, so there’s not a lot of money in the WEC pot to pay them. The only way to legitimately pay them more is to take money from the UFC side of Zuffa to do it.
In addition to Justin’s bit, don’t forget these guys get undisclosed monies, sponsorship cash, etc…
Yeah, always have to throw that in there.
Plus FoTN KOoTN and SoTN
I posted this on another thread, but for me it’s all about gate to salary ration. I figure if you keep it around 2:1, it’s all good. Any deals the promotionss make with PPV buys or networks should just be a bonus for the promotions willing to put up the hundreds of thousands/millions on the risk of hosting an MMA event.
I like to see the extra fight of the night bonus. That should happen more often.