Bellator 85 fighter payouts

[tinobar]

Two words


backroom bonuses

[aker2703]

Originally Posted by Amerikuracana

Bellator is going to HAVE to lose their champions for a little while, and tha is the way it SHOULD be until they grow a bit larger and can pay more.

i can't believe that the fighter pay for tournament fighters was better when they were on MTV2.

[ebartlett84]

Brian Warren made 3 grand.

That is good money.

[JonSnitchPhones]

So they reduced the tourney payouts after moving to Spike, rather than maintained or increased them? That makes sense.

If this report is accurate, I have a problem with that, Hawn getting so much less than the average tourney fight, and Patricio getting less. If you win a tournament, you should get rewarded by receiving more than average tourney pay. That only makes sense. If you get 100 total, you should at least get 17/17 per fight then, like Chandler got.

Maybe this is the reasoning behind Bellator leaving many of their talents on their roster behind this season, rather than creating stars or fun rematches. They're holding out until the tourney payouts get bumped back up or even increased. One would think Bellator would want to invest more in their initial success. Spend less on all the ads, more on the fighters. People may be slower to find out about the product, but once they do more apt to stay. I know that if they would have put a show this week of: Dantas-Galvao, Khalidov-Santana, Rogers-Cooper, Vasilevsky-Spang, Parlo-Ward; fans wouldn't turn that off and would come back to see what's next.

[CC27]

Originally Posted by JonSnitchPhones

So they reduced the tourney payouts after moving to Spike, rather than maintained or increased them? That makes sense.

If this report is accurate, I have a problem with that, Hawn getting so much less than the average tourney fight, and Patricio getting less. If you win a tournament, you should get rewarded by receiving more than average tourney pay. That only makes sense. If you get 100 total, you should at least get 17/17 per fight then, like Chandler got.

Maybe this is the reasoning behind Bellator leaving many of their talents on their roster behind this season, rather than creating stars or fun rematches. They're holding out until the tourney payouts get bumped back up or even increased. One would think Bellator would want to invest more in their initial success. Spend less on all the ads, more on the fighters. People may be slower to find out about the product, but once they do more apt to stay. I know that if they would have put a show this week of: Dantas-Galvao, Khalidov-Santana, Rogers-Cooper, Vasilevsky-Spang, Parlo-Ward; fans wouldn't turn that off and would come back to see what's next.

I would imagine the finals will be the bulk of the money, instead of paying 10/10, 15/15, 25/25 they go cheaper in the first round, little more second and then a big pay for the finals, reward the two best guys with big base pay and the winner a big win bonus.

Problem is depending on where they events take place we might not see the second round or finals payouts to see how it breaks down.

[JonSnitchPhones]

Originally Posted by CC27

I would imagine the finals will be the bulk of the money, instead of paying 10/10, 15/15, 25/25 they go cheaper in the first round, little more second and then a big pay for the finals, reward the two best guys with big base pay and the winner a big win bonus.

Problem is depending on where they events take place we might not see the second round or finals payouts to see how it breaks down.

Well, they'd still be reducing the payouts that way. The champion would get the same, but everybody else gets less than formerly.

[ebartlett84]

[helstar184]

guess they shouldn't quit their day jobs.

ps why did seth petruzelli admit he has a small penis in the air?

[Roger FedorAIR]

Originally Posted by aker2703

well maybe we had bad info, i can't remember the last fighter payouts that have been released.

Edit: Eddie alvarez vs shinya aoki payouts

Eddie Alvarez ($50,000 + $50,000 win bonus = $100,000) defeated Shinya Aoki ($60,000)
-Andreas Spang ($15,000 + $15,000 win bonus = $30,000) defeated Brian Rogers ($15,000)*
-Maiquel Falcao ($15,000 + $15,000 win bonus= $30,000) defeated Vyacheslav Vasilevsky ($15,000)
-Rick Hawn ($15,000 + $15,000 win bonus = $30,000) defeated Lloyd Woodard ($15,000)
-Brent Weedman ($15,000 + $15,000 win bonus = $30,000) defeated Thiago Michel ($15,000)
-Jessica Eye ($3,500 + $3,500 win bonus = $7,000) defeated Anita Rodriguez ($2,000)
-John Hawk ($1,500 + $1,500 win bonus = $3,000) defeated Marcus Vanttinen ($2,000)
-Attila Vegh ($3,000 + $3,000 win bonus = $6,000) defeated Dan Spohn ($1,800)
-Frank Carabello ($1,800 + $1,800 = $3,600) defeated Donny Walker ($1,500)
-Julian Lane ($700 + $700 win bonus = $1,400) defeated Joe Heiland ($1,250)

*Spang was fined twenty percent of his purse ($6,000) for starting an in-cage altercation with Falcao.

O man... $700/$700????

Ugh, I'm just not even going to go there...

[Mikedh]

Their undercard is mostly just local guys used to sell tickets in the area and to save money because the undercard is not sold commercially. Nothing wrong with that, they are a growing promotion, Strikeforce did that too. In that sense, 700/700 is not so unbelievable.