Affliction Banned Salaries, Fedor Emelianenko, Mixed Martial

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Affliction Banned was a great success and they have released the fighters pay salaries for all the fighters. The owners of Affliction promised that they would treat and pay their fighters much better than their rivals at the UFC.

Dana White has historically kept the fighters salaries low despite making record profits. Now that the numbers have been released there might be a huge exodus of fighters that want to get paid for that they are worth.

Everyone knows that the UFC have continually kept fighters salaries low as they have had a virtual monopoly on the MMA industry. If this trend continues that the UFC might have to start paying market value for their fighters.

For example at UFC 76 - Knockout in the main fight between UFC star Chuck Liddell and Keith Jardine, Liddell was paid $500,000 while Jardine only earned $14,000 for the fight. The total payroll for the event was $954,000 (though 68 percent of it went to Liddell and Shogun Rua). UFC 76 had 475,000 pay per view buys at 40 bucks a pop which means that the UFC made around 19 million for the event yet they only spent just under a million on fighter salaries. That is not including the gate tickets sales, merchandise, and reale valueof hte event on either television or DVD sales.

With the hopes of a real threat to the UFC, Affliction is hoping to get better talent and paying the fighters better which is good for the fighters and not the multination corporation of Zuffa that are trying to exploit the fighters who work their whole lives and sacrifice everything not to get paid properly.

So congratulations to Affliction for sticking up for the fighters and paying them for what they are worth. The godo thing is that even though Justin Levens and Ray Lizama did not fight at the event they were still compensated. Lets see Dana White do this.

Lets hope the UFC starts to pay people for what they are worth.

Below are the final salary numbers for Affliction Banned. The following are the Fighter Salaries and Bonuses Paid for the Affliction: Banned card. This list courtesy of CSAC and SI.com:

Affliction: Banned Fighter Salaries and Bonuses

ATHLETE PURSE AMOUNT BONUS PAY TOTAL PAY Tim Sylvia $800,000 $0 $799,790 Fedor Emelianenko $300,000 $0 $299,800 Mark Hominick $5,000 $5,000 $9,890 Savant Young $7,000 $0 $6,155 Terry Martin $30,000 $0 $29,400 Vitor Belfort $70,000 $70,000 $139,840 Joseph Ambrose $5,000 $0 $4,394 Mike Pyle $15,000 $5,000 $19,840 Edwin Dewees $15,000 $0 $14,840 Antonio Nogueira $50,000 $0 $49,240 Matt Lindland $225,000 $75,000 $299,540 Fabio Nascimiento $20,000 $0 $19,420 Mike Whitehead $50,000 $0 $43,500 Renato Sobral $60,000 $30,000 $97,880 Pedro Rizzo $70,000 $0 $69,740 Josh Barnett $300,000 $0 $295,079 Andre Arlovski $500,000 $250,000 $749,690 Ben Rothwell $250,000 $0 $249,790 *Justin Levens $6,000 $0 $4,641 *Ray Lizama $3,000 $0 $3,490 Paul Buentello $60,000 $20,000 $79,098 Gary Goodridge $25,000 $0 $24,790 TOTALS $2,866,000 $2,866,000 $455,000 $3,319,737

Notes:

• *Justin Levens and Ray Lizama did not fight. There total pay was negotiated.
• More than likely there was some additional pay for Fedor Emilianenko that was paid prior to the card (signing bonus, Apparel payments, PPV Bonuses are some possible payments that wouldn’t be included in CSAC numbers) that would increase his pay significantly.