(Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports)
Win, lose or draw tonight, Anderson Silva is walking away (editor’s note: this turned out to be an unintended bad pun) with the fattest pockets. The MMA Manifesto has requested and received the fighter purse info for the top three fights on the card at UFC 168 from the Nevada Athletic Commission. We’ll update with the full card payouts once they are released.
UPDATE: full card payouts are now included
Attendance: 15,650
Gate: $6,238,792.50
Anderson Silva: $600,000
Chris Weidman: $400,000 ($200,000 to show, $200,000 win bonus)
Ronda Rousey: $250,000 ($50,000 to show, $50,000 win bonus, $75,000 Fight of the Night bonus, $75,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
Josh Barnett: $170,000
Travis Browne: $131,000 ($28,000 to show, $28,000 win bonus, $75,000 Knockout of the Night bonus)
Miesha Tate: $103,000 ($28,000 to show, $75,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Jim Miller: $92,000 ($46,000 to show, $46,000 win bonus)
Chris Leben: $51,000
Dustin Poirier: $48,500 ($23,000 to show, $23,000 win bonus, $2,500 from Brandao for missing weight)
Dennis Siver: $46,200 ($33,000 to show, $33,000 win bonus, fined $19,800 for failed drug test)
Gleison Tibau: $39,000
Michael Johnson: $36,000 ($18,000 to show, $18,000 win bonus)
John Howard: $32,000 ($16,000 to show, $16,000 win bonus)
Manny Gamburyan: $25,000
Robbie Peralta: $24,000 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus)
Uriah Hall: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
William Macario: $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 win bonus)
Siyar Bahadurzada: $17,000
Diego Brandao: $15,000 ($20,000 to show, $5,000 fine for missing weight)
Bobby Voelker: $12,000
Estevan Payan: $10,000
Fabricio Camoes: $8,000
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