Affliction “Day of Reckoning” Fighter Salaries: Payroll Exceeds $3.3 Million
Andrei Arlovski
The California State Athletic Commission today released the official fighter salaries for Affliction: Day of Reckoning and Andrei Arlovski, who suffered a first-round knockout to Fedor Emelianenko in the evening’s main event, was the card’s top earner, taking home $1.5 million. Emelianenko officially earned $300,000 for the victory, though his salary assuredly exceeded Arlovski’s with undisclosed bonuses factored in.
“Day of Reckoning” took place on Saturday, January 24th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California and aired live on HDNet and pay-per-view.
Other top earners were Josh Barnett ($500,000), Matt Lindland ($225,000), and Vitor Belfort ($200,000).
The total disclosed payroll for the event was $3,308,000.
“Day of Reckoning” attracted a near-capacity crowd of 13,228 for a live gate that is expected to exceed $2 million.
The official salaries exclude some bonuses, taxes, fees, sponsor payments, and other miscellaneous payments and fees.
The event’s official salaries were:
- Fedor Emelianenko ($300,000 – no win bonus) def. Andre Arlovski ($1,500,000)
- Josh Barnett ($500,000 – no win bonus) def. Gilbert Yvel ($30,000)
- Vitor Belfort ($200,000 – includes $80,000 win bonus) def. Matt Lindland ($225,000)
- Renato “Babalu” Sobral ($90,000 – includes $30,000 win bonus) def. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou ($50,000)
- Paul Buentello ($90,000 – includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Kiril Sidelnikov ($10,000)
- Dan Lauzon ($12,000 – no win bonus) def. Bobby Green ($4,000)
- Jay Hieron ($45,000 – includes $25,000 win bonus) def. Jason High ($10,000)
- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira ($150,000 – includes $30,000 win bonus) def. Vladimir Matyushenko ($50,000)
- L.C. Davis ($14,000 – includes $7,000 win bonus) def. Bao Quach ($7,000)
- Albert Rios ($6,000 – includes $3,000 win bonus) def. Antonio Duarte ($3,000)
- Brett Cooper ($10,000 – includes $5,000 win bonus) def. Patrick Speight ($2,000)
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Andre Arlovski ($1,500,000)??? What kind of BS is that?
After the first Affliction, everyone talked about how great it is that Affliction is RAISING salaries for fighters. Really? Are they?
# Albert Rios ($6,000 – includes $3,000 win bonus) def. Antonio Duarte ($3,000)
# Brett Cooper ($10,000 – includes $5,000 win bonus) def. Patrick Speight ($2,000)
# Bobby Green ($4,000)
There’s 5 guys out of 22 making 5k or less guaranteed salary (22.7%). Let’s contrast that with UFC 92. 3 out of 20 fighters had 5k or less guaranteed (15%). And none less than 4k. How about UFC 91? 3 out of 18 with 5k or less guaranteed (16.7%). Hell, at UFC 88, 1 out of 18 had 5k or less guaranteed (5.5%) and that was a 5k fight. Can’t find salaries released for 93, so no comparison there yet.
Hell, this ought to sober everyone up on where the UFC stands on fighter salaries as opposed to Affliction…
The Ultimate Fighter 8 Fighter Salaries
* Efrain Escudero ($16,000) def. Phillipe Nover ($8,000)
* Ryan Bader ($16,000) def. Vinny Magalhaes ($8,000)
* Wilson Gouveia ($36,800) def. Jason MacDonald ($35,200)
* Anthony Johnson $18,000 def. Kevin Burns ($7,000)
* Junie Browning ($16,000) def. Dave Kaplan ($8,000)
* Krzysztof Soszynski ($16,000) def. Shane Primm ($8,000)
* Eliot Marshall ($16,000) def. Jules Bruchez ($8,000)
* Shane Nelson ($16,000) def. George Roop ($8,000)
* Tom Lawlor ($16,000) def. Kyle Kingsbury ($8,000)
* Roli Delgado ($16,000) def. John Polakowski ($8,000)
Where are the higher salaries in Affliction? Oh, it’s for the top-end only. SURPRISE!!!
Thank you for that DbiZ good work my friend, also u kept me from having to the work…
when your on a show that long making money for ufc and zuffa. you better get paid more than a no name
Affliction definitely needs to cut the salaries of some of their fighters and up those of the low-level guys. I can understand the $1.5mil for Arlovski but it’s hard for me to justify the $90,000 for Buentello, $150,000 for Nogueira, and $50,000 for Matyushenko. Does anyone honestly think any one of those three generated enough revenue to pay their salaries? I highly doubt it.
Then you have Green, who takes the fight on 30 hours notice and gets $4k? Seems like crap to me. He put on a hell of performance given the circumstances and gets $46k less than Matyushenko, who did nothing then gets knocked out. At least Buentello and Nogueira put on solid performances (to varying degrees) but if this promotion is going to last they need to make some serious adjustments. I’m in agreement that Arlovski and Barnett are overpaid but I think there’s more of an argument to be made for cutting other fighters’ salaries before theirs.
thats very interesting. and don’t forget that TUF finale was free on spike, making the ufc even more generous for the bolstered payouts compared to the low-end Affliction fighters since PPV buys wont help offset those payroll expenses. If anything, you might expect Dana to turn into a tight-wod since it was free on Spike, but he went in the complete opposite direction.
Ur kidding right? Their fighter salary was 3x’s the ammount of UFC 92 and I dont even wanna know how UFC 93 compared. Dont get me wrong, I prefer the UFC over Affliction, but how could u not support a brand that is trying to pay their main eventers their actual worth. My biggest knock against the UFC has always been their disgraceful salary’s. Especially for those fighters who are generating MILLIONS for the company and is only recieving a low six figure pay. I feel lower tier fighters maybe shouldnt get paid that much, but theres no reason the fighters who carry the cards should get paid nothing for there time. The UFC salaries are a joke.
O ya, and on the TUF finale, big deal!!! I guess were supposed to be excited behind the idea that if Phillipe and Vinny can fight 3 more times this year their salary’s will exceed California’s poverty limit!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!
dbiz whats that add up to total, not even close to afflictions payroll.. UFC is a bunch of cheap asses thats why there going to lose there fighters in the end. Fighters have already left, refs have left. They need to change something or there going downhill.
Hate to break it to you but total payroll does not mean anything if you do not make enough to cover it. You can give all you want your fighters but if you go out of business then where do paying those high salaries get you. Don’t forget UFC has several cards a year as opposed to Affliction, who is only able to have one or two. So the guys making 7k or 8k a fight usually 5x a year if they earn it as opposed to being paid 4k a fight and only getting that once or twice a year. (yes I know everyone fights in other organizations at the lower levels)
The UFC pays their fighters less because they pay them what they’re actually worth to the business. Affliction clearly doesn’t or why would they spend $200,000 for Nogueira-Matyushenko or $100,000 for Buentello-Sidelnikov. Fighters like the UFC because of the job security (provided you win of course) versus a single big pay day in Affliction. Fighters know the UFC will be around for the long term and take a pay cut to fight there because of that, plus the opportunities for sponsorships are much greater in the UFC, making up for a lot of the salary differences.
Having referees leave is irrelevant as they’re hired and paid by the athletic commissions.
Well, if you do a straight average, that 150k per fighter looks nice but….
Affliction dropped 2.5 million on 4 fighters (Fedor, Arlovski, Barnett, Vitor). That leaves 800,000 for 18 fighters. Even at an even split, that’s under 45k, a sum that even moderate fighters in the UFC can get…especially as contracts come up for negotiation.
Take Lindland’s 225k out, and you are left with 33k each, assuming an even split. Drop Lil Nog’s 150k and the “average” drops to 26k. Take out Buentello’s and Babalu’s 90k each and that “average” drops to 15k. You see where that is going?
Crap pay for all but the chosen few. Lower than the UFC, as hard numbers indicate.
Total payroll doesn’t tell the story because none of the UFC’s top fighters are hurting for cash, even at the 500k level per fight that you seem upset with. All of Affliction’s bottom-level fighters are hurting, and they are hurting more than the UFC’s bottom. Open your damn eyes, fool.
This will be two shows in a row where Affliction doesn’t recoup even half their costs. That helps no one in the long run because they’re hemorrhaging cash faster than ProElite was. They paid De la Hoya 5 million to do nothing making their actual payout over 8 million. On 2 million (tops) in gate. I doubt it was even that much. They did not get 3-4 million PPV buys so you’re looking at a net loss. Again.
Fighter have indeed left, and with the exception of AA, they aren’t a loss. I don’t want to see Barnett’s flopping nipples in mount for 11 minutes before the other fighter gets sick of the weight on his ribs and taps. Yvel landed harder shots from the bottom than Barnett could dream of landing in that fight. That guy is going to be a problem for Fedor? Hell no he’s not. Since he’s off the roids he’s average at best. Barely top 10. I don’t want to watch Sokoudjou fight for 3 minutes then get pummeled because he is too gassed to hold his hands above his waist or watch Babalu be a punk by holding chokes well after the fight has been stopped. Know why? I like the sport, not the crap that comes with it.
In short, you’re wrong.
BS?????
When a boxer makes 50 million on one fight, you are saying BS to a MMA fighter who finally gets a fair shake? Wow dude. Good for Arlovski and his management team for negotiating a descent paycheck.
Wow, I never realized the payroll that Golden Boy dishes out. 1.5M for Arlovski?! 500K for Barnett seems off the charts too. I understand Affliction has a smaller stable of top fighter so its easier to split the pie amoung fewer people, but these numbers seem like they will be extremely difficult to maintain over time. But dang, quite impressive paychecks.
I can’t seem to find any logical explanation for the challenger getting 5x the base salary of the champion. Other than politics or BS of course.
If you had either read the post more throroughly, or later comments you would have seen that Fedor got more money than that its just not “disclosed”. It is being rumored that he got around $2 mil.
That is exactly why I said “base salary” and not total purse. Still doesnt make any sense for the challenger to have claim to more guaranteed money. Fedor made out better because of the bonuses and other incentives becuase he won, which were not guaranteed. AA got 1.5M to win, lose, or draw which is what makes little sense. Nowhere in the rest of the article or subsequent posts answers or even addresses that, as you say.
justin says:
January 25, 2009 at 12:48 pm (Report)
Yeah, that’s not a bad chunk of change for getting laid out. I’m sure a good bit of Fedor’s money will be paid by M1 in Russia, so he doesn’t have to pay American Taxes on it.
All that says is the additional bonuses may or may not be taxed in America. But they are still bonuses, which are not guaranteed. Which takes us back to the original question of why should Arlovski get 5x the base, unconditional, salary.
His M-1 bonuses are guaranteed, since M-1’s sole purpose is Fedor and Fedor’s team. They just aren’t reported to the CSAC. My bet is that M-1 pays him about 1M in sponsorships for showing up and giving them jobs. That’s guaranteed. He also got a healthy upfront signing bonus for Banned, so I have no doubt the same applies here.
Man, you are not a good troll.
The bonus Fedor is said to have received was guaranteed and paid up front, not a win bonus or “Fight Night” bonus which depends on the fight itself.
I did not realize the remaining “bonuses” from Fedor’s purse were all guaranteed. That changes everything. I stand corrected and absolutely apologize for being nothing but a pain in the a$$.
yea first big doofy gettin paid 800 grand to get his ass kicked in 36 seconds now AA gettin 1.5 mil. not a bad chunk of change for gettin laid out
hahaha thats hilarious 1.5million yah thats a little crazy for getting knocked out. they r trying to do anything they can to beat ufc and there gonna end up bankrupting themselves
Yeah, that’s not a bad chunk of change for getting laid out. I’m sure a good bit of Fedor’s money will be paid by M1 in Russia, so he doesn’t have to pay American Taxes on it. The $5 mil that De La Hoya was paid to be associated with this should have been included. With that they paid out at least 8 mil to put this on, with a 2 mil live gate… they needed a lot of PPV buys to break even on this card… we’ll see.
They would need close to 2M (if not 3M) PPV buys to break EVEN. Not happening. This is why they will fail. And soon.
I think they’ll promote a third show this Summer (hopefully not in California) but they need to do some serious cost cutting and put on another solid show with improved production if they want to be around for the long haul.
i just fall on the ground and have him choke me out
damn i would fight fedor for a mil and a half…. probably die, but die rich!
so i guess you value worldly possesions over your life…come on really?
The salaries added up to 3.3 million, but the live gate was 2 million, I wonder how much they made with ppv buys, because it don’t sound like they made jack ****e so far.
Im sorry but in my opion affliction blows…. Josh b is trash cain v or brock lesnar would pound the hell out of him…. and fedor is one tough dude but come on if your any kind of a man join the ufc!!…there are in my opion only 2 organizations WEC UFC join…..
no one who has already established themselves would never work for dana and you can’t blame them. why would a king want to be a slave?
The question there is “Why would Fedor want to risk losing his title by not defending it so he can hold to his 1 fight a year habit?”
not his fault that dana won’t co-promote a fight. and not his fault that affliction only has 7 fighters total. whats a man to do?
It is his fault that he breaks his hand due to piss poor punching technique and chooses NYE freak shows over real fights though.
Why would he want to fight for a President who openly criticizes him, although he is clearly the best! Even if he got past that, he would only be earning about One Tenth of what he is earning now. And it’s not as if the UFC has a very deep Heavyweight division.
Hes already beaten Nog
Randy is far too old now for that match, sorry
Mir or Kongo, not really…..
Brock is the only legitimate match for him over there and we still gotta see if he gets past Mir. Not too many guys would wanna come fight Brock under these crappy circumstances.
It’s not as if Affliction has a very deep Heavyweight division either… outside of Barnett they have no one that would be of any interest to see Fedor fight. Also, the UFC has as many HWs as Affliction does fighters, granted only the top 4 or 5 would be high enough caliber to think about facing Fedor, but the fact still remains.
He would want to fight for the UFC if he really wanted to prove that he’s the best, and undisputed. If his competitive drive were strong enough, he would sign with the UFC even if that meant he wouldn’t be getting overpaid for his 1-2 fights a year.
wow andrei wont have to fight for a while
I wonder if there is a government BAIL OUT program for Affliction when they go belly up after dishing out money like that!
I love the ufc but a fight every 2 weeks for 60 bucks a pop is kind of annoying. Glad I can stream it for free on mmahacks.com Just off of payperview buys they did 5 Mil. plus a 13000 person gate Im sure they made some money, plus they have one of the richest businessman in the world backing them. I wish Affliction and ufc would just merge that would be awesome.
F affliction. i wish dana would leave his ego at home so the fans(consumer) can get to see some match ups we deserve to see!
Affliction and UFC will not merge because t~shirt guy wants to air down the UFC.
Take down*
Trump is going to bail soon, just watch. He didn’t get where he is by spending money with no return.
I agree.
Dana needs to focus on running a business instead of being in front of the camera. Ultimate fighter cool the first 2 seasons now its just annoying. They need to change some stuff like putting together fights that make no sense. Rampage and Jardine(retarded) Stop letting spider fight 205 if all he is going to fight is a bunch of pussies. Put him against rampage or wanderlei those guys would crush him.
why would dana put silva up against someone he could lose too. if silva loses he will not be in p4p talk anymore. same with fedor..
UFC is a well established Organization.
Affliction, although they are a MMA apparel company, has only had 2 cards. I would expect the fighter pay to be lower…
Arlovski made 1.5 mil, but Fedor only made 300,000.00??? WTF?!?! Do these guys not know WHO Fedor is?
You should probably read the other comments before typing out your own.
Well that’s no fun… Especially for people for whom reading doesn’t come naturally, but half-baked opinions do.
i hear u guys telling that The Emperor Fedor is getting some moola on the side, but nevertheless, it sounds unfair, that a practically unbeaten champion (Fedor) gets 1/5TH OF WHAT THE LOSER GOT!!!
I’m not bashing AA, but his record is not comparable to Fedor’s, no matter what Fedor might be getting from M-1…
On the other hand I’d not bash any organization trying to make it in this bizzness.
We need more promotions, not to let Dana be the only fish in the pond!!!
We should all support Affliction not **** about it. nobody is perfect.
so, lets at least be CONSTRUCTIVE about all our ****ing.
“i hear u guys telling that The Emperor Fedor is getting some moola on the side, but nevertheless, it sounds unfair, that a practically unbeaten champion (Fedor) gets 1/5TH OF WHAT THE LOSER GOT!!!
I’m not bashing AA, but his record is not comparable to Fedor’s, no matter what Fedor might be getting from M-1…”
No matter what he’s getting from M-1??? Fedor makes more than AA off that fight, you know why? Because M-1 was a CO-PROMOTER, meaning IT ALL IS PART OF THE SAME PAY because IT WAS AN M-1 FIGHT! You can’t ignore that money because it’s convenient for you. Also remember that he got a 1M signing bonus last time, paid BEFORE he even fought. I have no doubt he got the same.
Finally, see my post above. Affliction pays less to more fighters then the UFC.
Or maybe we should all support StrikeForce because they actually know how to run a promotion, and they are smart enough to work with the UFC and respect them instead of bad mouthing them and trying to work against them.
wow, nice cussing filter here
next time I’ll write “female-dog” LOL
I think this is blessing no matter what Affliction’s future may entail. On the one hand if Affliction can survive u can say that there is finally a home for “Big Name” fighters to actually get paid what they are worth.
If they fail and end up in bankruptcy, I guess we’ll just have to settle for potential Brock vs Fedor and Silva vs Belfort matches. Dangit!!
“On the one hand if Affliction can survive u can say that there is finally a home for “Big Name” fighters to actually get paid what they are worth.”
or a lot more than they are worth, and only fight twice a year, while the little guys still get dumped on because the big names fighters are taking up all the payroll, and aren’t given the opportunity to fight more to make more money.
What “Big Name” fighters in the UFC fought more than twice last year?
Only one I can think of off the top of my head is Brock and Anderson but Andersons fight was a last second fight so they could compete with Elite XC Not, BJ, GSP, Chuck, Randy, Nog, Rampage, Evans, Sherk, Hughes, Mir, etc. Its common for stars to only fight twice a year.
And to be clear Im speaking about the Silva vs Irvin fight at 205.
Brock Lesnar fought three times in 2008. Michael Bisping fought three times. Kenny Florian fought three times in 2008.
Chuck had a torn hamstring, Randy had a contract dispute, GSP didn’t have anyone to fight. Sherk had a suspension. Rampage and Forrest did TUF. Mir and Nog did TUF.
I challenge you however to look at some of the smaller name fighters, some of them fought 3-5 times, in Affliction, they wouldn’t have had that opportunity.
I can agree with u on the point with the smaller fighters, it does suck that they are stuck fighting maybe only once or twice for that pay under Affliction.
Fedor will never fight in the UFC, unless he ditches his Russian mob managers. In which case he’ll be dead in a river.
Dana will have to come out and say that Fedor still hasn’t fought anybody.
He’s still gonna promote Brock and Frank Mir as the best heavyweights out there. That’s why the ufc is starting to decline imho.
holy krap,these people are over paid and under worked bigtime,LOL no wonder they dont want to fight more then 3 times a year,and they loose there belts,they get to rich and get lazy…its a shame too much money ruins them,they’re not hungry and it show after a couple years when the money piles up!
someone said how a six figure payout is low… i dont know where you are from but six figures is not a low number, unless you are counting pennies…
and someone else said that the refs are even leaving? you say this because why, big john working as a ref again… remember he retired to take a shot at being one of those sports TV announcer guys, and it didnt work so he wanted to come back and make money again…
while the UFC may appear to be cheap considering how much money they do gross, but TV, radio, and print advertising are not cheap. couple that with all the other expenses and i bet there NET profit is not nearly as large as we all think it is…
pay has been going up across the board, and as fighters get better and the sports gets bigger salaries will go up
To be clear, It wasn’t meant as Six figures is a low ammount, It was meant as low in the Six Figures i.e. 100,000’s and 200,000’s compared 500,000 thru 900,000
Justin,
The Affliction fighters are allowed to fight in other organizations if they’d like. The UFC doesn’t allow that. The UFC is obviously superior to all others, however, I’d like to see the best fight the best, no matter what organization is their home. C0-Promoted events can only help the sport. And true championship belts makes a lot of sense.
“The Affliction fighters are allowed to fight in other organizations if they’d like. The UFC doesn’t allow that.”
You’re right, but the UFC puts on more than 2 events a year, their fighters have a lot of opportunities to fight without fighting for someone else.
“CO-Promoted events can only help the sport.”
If that’s the case then maybe when a new promotion comes along they shouldn’t bad mouth the company that made the sport big enough for them to be interested in getting involved in it. And maybe people, like t~shirt guy, shouldn’t make their money by having the president of one promotion where their clothes on a reality show, then turn around and start their own competing promotion with the money they made.
dang… wear*
Well, I don’t know about the bad mouthing and who started it. But as you know, competition makes products better. (i.e. cars, computers, etc.) All I’m saying is, the UFC could pay fighters more. How come boxers make soo much? If a fighter fights in Affliction or DREAM twice a year, they can fight 2 other fights on other organizations, like Strikeforce.
Bottom line, I want to see Fedor and Aoki fight some of the UFC talent.
Competition, in general, is good, but if you look at boxing you’ll see that you could have “too many” competitors, and as long as the weaker of those competitors is not allowed to die off by losing the competition its bad for everyone.
I’m not sure exactly why boxers make more money(only the ones at the top mind you), but I know that their is more money in the sport of boxing right now. I’m sure the fact that a boxing PPV involves maybe 1-2 fights versus 10 fights on a UFC PPV has something to do with boxers getting paid more. At the same time however, remember that Don King made a lot more money than the boxers he promoted/s.
You don’t know that the UFC can pay fighters more, you don’t know how much it costs them to put on an event, never mind the fact that (and this has been said dozens of times on this website) UFC fighters get undisclosed bonuses. Chuck, Randy, Brock, and those guys get percentages of live gate and PPV, plus all their sponsor money.
In regards to fighters fighting in other organizations, yeah they are available to if they fight for Affliction, b/c of the non-exclusive contracts, but they are probably going to be limited. I understand why the UFC has non-exclusive contracts, their ultimate goal is to have a UFC event on every Saturday night like it used to be with boxing on the Wide World of Sports, to be able to do that, you have to have a large stable of fighters at your disposal. If your fighters are off breaking their hands, and getting KOed in other organizations, they’re not at your disposal to put on an event every week to two weeks. Zuffa, by next Saturday will have put on three events in three weeks, and four events in five weeks, that’s a lot of fighters, you can’t have that many fighters on hand at any time if you let them fight somewhere else whenever they feel like.
(sorry for multiple posts)
Also, who’s to say that *if* they had co-promoted a fight between Fedor and Randy, and Fedor had won that fight, that M1/Affliction would have allowed Fedor to face any other UFC fighters afterwards. Affliction’s biggest claim to fame is Fedor, if Fedor were to beat the UFC champ in a co-promoted event, then they could not allow him to fight any UFC fighters any more, and always be able to claim they have the “only” HW champ, etc. etc.
Co-promotions are for the better of the sport. Without them, the sport will ultimately face the same fate of Boxing
I guess MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA should co-promote too… oh that’s right, they beat/bought out their competition… but everyone gets mad at the UFC for trying to do that, yet no one is clamoring for competition for any of those promotions…
LMAO! Ur reaching bro, ur really reaching! The Nfl became the biggest sport in our country because of the AFC and NFL(NFC) merger. And those sports do not compare to fight game At ALL. Whole different format. Seriously!! lol
Yeah, AFL and NFL merger… they became one company, they didn’t co-promote. Don’t forget however about Trump’s USFL, they never co-promoted with the NFL. I think for MMA in America to succeed at the level of the “4 majors” there needs to be one clear cut dominant number one promotion, that everyone knows who that is. Then you still have the other promotions, but they aren’t trying to “take down” that one promotion like ProElite and Affliction have said they want to do to the UFC, but instead work along side them as a “developmental league” if you will, like A, AA, and AAA baseball, or the NBA B-league. Or like StrikeForce and that Canadian promotion that I can’t think of their name right now (not TKO, the other one).
You laugh, but at one point NFL and NBA had direct competition, people that sought to “take them down” and now they don’t. I recognize that their are some differences between the promotion of those sports and fighting, but as long as you have competing promotions, they are going to be just that, competing, they are going to want to have their own champions until somebody becomes the clear cut number one across the board. The problem with boxing is too many promotions, and if MMA is not careful it will end up the same.
I see ur point!
I’m going to have to agree with Justin on this one
It might be my youth but i cant remember a dominant boxing promotion. Also, i think Dana is hell bent on not turning MMA promotion into how crappy and corrupt boxing promotion has become thanks to guys like don king. I used to be a Dana hater but i now think Dana’s bald head has masterminded all of his moves pretty well right now and i think the sport of MMA will be as popular as the NFL in world wide popularity in ten years, unfortanetly not in the USA imo since it gets a bad rep since its too “violent” for some people tastes. Affliction in the long run will have helped the UFC since it has made the UFC put on many more fights then anyone ever expected a half a year ago, or whenever affliction started up a while ago. Theres always going to smaller promotions just like there are in the NFL(CFL, Euro NFL, AFL), MLB(Jesus even Bismarck North Dakota had there own semi-pro baseball team for a while, go Rattlers!)NHL and the dozens upon dozens of hockey leagues that are all over North America. The UFC will eventually will be the big leagues, it will just take time.
The payroll was 3.3 mil for the fighters only, how much more did it cost for Tito, camera crew, sound techs, ring construction crew, etc. All the overhead had to cost another mil or more.
I loved Booby Green’s reaction to seeing Oscar and Trump, that was priceless!!
what did he do?
Was comical. After the 3rd nut shot, he saw Oscar in the crowd and was like “Is that Oscar Del La Hoya? Ahhh sh!t, Oscar Del La Hoya, Donald Trump!”
“The live gate numbers are in and it looks it just enough to cover Andrei Arlovski’s purse—$1,512,750 to be exact. Of the 13,228 people that attended “Day of Reckoning,” 8,946 of them actually paid to be there. For those wondering how that compares to “Banned,” Affliction made approximately $500,000 less with 2,296 less paying customers this time around. If you look on the bright side, I suppose you can at least say it wasn’t the disaster it appeared it was going to be just days before the event.”
Yep, only a matter of time before they follow ProElite… nice seeing you fight in the US Fedor, will be looking for you in Dream…
Let’s keep in mind here folks that Affliction has a partner with the name “Trump”. I doubt very much that Trump will stick around very long if they aren’t making money. The old saying “you have to spend money to make money” is playing a big part in this case I think. They (Affliction) realize that they can’t compete with the UFC at this point in time so if they can convince the top tier fighters to move to their organization with guaranteed higher payouts, they will be more competitive and eventually will have a larger number of the top fighters which means they will have a better organization which means more viewers which means more money. Keep going the competition between the two organizations can only be good for us as viewers. Eventually Affliction will either be the opposition or they will fold. Guess all we can do is wait and see what happens. That’s just my opinion.
That’s way too much for Arlovski et al. Why does Fedor always make less than his challenger? Is if to get Baby Fedor and his little brother on the cards? But what would be a fair price for the main eventers? 250k plus 250 win bonus? I think there should be more emphasis on the win bonus.
You should really focus on reading before you comment.
Q: “Why does Fedor make less than his challenger?”
A: “See above comments where basically the same question was asked…three times.”
this is why dana white has been predicting that affliction won’t be around much longer. i like arlovski but 1.5 mil for getting knocked out? that’s what they used to pay people to fight mike tyson. that’s crazy!!! donald trump and oscar de la hoya will get sick of carrying this company and there will be some good fighters out of work, again, just like elitexc.
There are a few things you guys arent factoring in…In addition to live gate, and PPV buys, Affliction makes money off of the fighters with their clothing.
I’m not a UFC fan, or Affliction fan, Im an MMA fan…so I hope both stick around. Dana is a hypocrit with the “freakshow” crap…Brock loses his first fight, then wins a decisions over Heath Hearring and gets a title shot? Brock isnt a freakshow with no record? He beat a guy that hasnt fought for a year and is a champion? Weak. If UFC has a monopoly, we’ll keep getting PPV cards filled with TUF fighters and has-beens with 1, maybe 2 good fights. If UFC has a lil competition, they are forced to step it up in terms of paying the people WHO ACTUALLY FIGHT, and putting on better shows than the other guys.
I could care less what the fighters make as long as the co. theyre working for can pay it. Yea, Arlovski got paid $1.5mil for getting KO’d, but how much do Dana and the Fertitas make every PPV? Why is nobody upset about that, but instead whine about how much fighters are getting paid to fight?
I can’t say that I am any more surprised by some of the big salaries here than I have been at some of the smaller numbers paid to some of the fighters in other events.
Wouldn’t dream of knocking any fighter for getting as much as they can when they can either. Regardless, fighting is a tough way to make a living.