(Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports)
Lyoto Machida looks like he earned himself a middleweight title shot after his victory over Gegard Mousasi last night at UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Mousasi. Even better, The Dragon walked away the top earner of the night.
Before we go any further, we should note that most international athletic commissions don’t release fighter pay info, so none of the following salary data for the event is official. However, you can get a fairly accurate picture of a fighter’s pay based on official purse info released from past fights. So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 24 fighters that traded blows at the event (but please remember – this is only an estimate, not official info, especially for any fighters that made their UFC debuts at the event or Jacare Souza, whose Strikeforce purse info we are using for the time being – we’ll update figures for all the fighters once we get more info).
Attendance: 7,511
Gate: N/A
Lyoto Machida: $250,000 ($200,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Gegard Mousasi: $225,000 ($175,000 to show, $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus)
Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza: $135,000 ($105,000 to show, $30,000 win bonus)
Charles Oliveira: $92,000 ($21,000 to show, $21,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performer of the Night bonus)
Erick Silva: $74,000 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 win bonus, $50,000 Performer of the Night bonus)
Maximo Blanco: $17,000
Nicholas Musoke: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Joe Proctor: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Zubaira Tukhugov: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus)
Wilson Reis: $10,000
Takenori Sato: $8,000
Viscardi Andrade: $8,000
Andy Ogle: $8,000
Cristiano Marcello: $8,000
Ivan Jorge: $8,000
Jesse Ronson: $8,000
Albert Tumenov: $8,000
Douglas Silva de Andrade: $8,000
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