On This Day 12 Years Ago UFC 56

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Fighter Pay was Trash with a 1.9 Mil gate
Matt Hughes: $110,000 ($55,000 to fight; $55,000 to win)

Jeremy Horn: $50,000 ($25,000 to fight; $25,000 to win)

Georges St-Pierre: $35,000 ($16,000 to fight; $19,000 to win)

Rich Franklin: $26,000 ($13,000 to fight; $13,000 to win)

Joe Riggs: $12,000 (Note that Riggs was fined 10% of this amount for failing to make weight)

Nate Quarry: $10,000

Sean Sherk: $10,000

Sam Hoger: $10,000 ($5,000 to fight; $5,000 to win)

Trevor Prangley: $6,000

Gabriel Gonzaga: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Nick Thompson: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Thiago Alves: $4,000 ($2,000 to fight; $2,000 to win)

Kevin Jordan: $3,000

Jeff Newton: $2,000

Ansar Chalangov: $2,000

Keith Wisniewski: $2,000
 
Overpaid bastards, Dana was barely worth 100 million back then.
 
Reebok wasn't around Back then.
More Sponsors money.

Locker Room bonus were more frequent too.


But yeah, bs paid
 
Ouch Nate and Sherk... 10k to have their face rearranged.
 
Earning less on the books. More in cash. Dana is a friend of the working man.

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Fighter Pay was Trash with a 1.9 Mil gate
Matt Hughes: $110,000 ($55,000 to fight; $55,000 to win)

Jeremy Horn: $50,000 ($25,000 to fight; $25,000 to win)

Georges St-Pierre: $35,000 ($16,000 to fight; $19,000 to win)

Rich Franklin: $26,000 ($13,000 to fight; $13,000 to win)

Joe Riggs: $12,000 (Note that Riggs was fined 10% of this amount for failing to make weight)

Nate Quarry: $10,000

Sean Sherk: $10,000

Sam Hoger: $10,000 ($5,000 to fight; $5,000 to win)

Trevor Prangley: $6,000

Gabriel Gonzaga: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Nick Thompson: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Thiago Alves: $4,000 ($2,000 to fight; $2,000 to win)

Kevin Jordan: $3,000

Jeff Newton: $2,000

Ansar Chalangov: $2,000

Keith Wisniewski: $2,000

Rich Franklin: $26,000... as a Champ...
 
Fighter Pay was Trash with a 1.9 Mil gate
Matt Hughes: $110,000 ($55,000 to fight; $55,000 to win)

Jeremy Horn: $50,000 ($25,000 to fight; $25,000 to win)

Georges St-Pierre: $35,000 ($16,000 to fight; $19,000 to win)

Rich Franklin: $26,000 ($13,000 to fight; $13,000 to win)

Joe Riggs: $12,000 (Note that Riggs was fined 10% of this amount for failing to make weight)

Nate Quarry: $10,000

Sean Sherk: $10,000

Sam Hoger: $10,000 ($5,000 to fight; $5,000 to win)

Trevor Prangley: $6,000

Gabriel Gonzaga: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Nick Thompson: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Thiago Alves: $4,000 ($2,000 to fight; $2,000 to win)

Kevin Jordan: $3,000

Jeff Newton: $2,000

Ansar Chalangov: $2,000

Keith Wisniewski: $2,000
wow that's a lot of name recognition on one card, so much different with the weekly PPV, Fight Nights, Fight Pass, FSN1, etc.
3 hall of famers and 4 guys most remember even 150 events later
 
The fighters weren't in it so much for the money back then, I think they were just honored to fight in the UFC. It wasn't a career, they had other ways of making money or were just content being broke. Fighter pay has come a long way, but there is certainly room for improvement.
 
I cant believe no fighter ever took Dana to the woodshed. Consequences be damned.

What was PPV? 30 mil?
 
Back when fighters actually fought and competed. Now, it's about money, money, money.
 
Fighter Pay was Trash with a 1.9 Mil gate
Matt Hughes: $110,000 ($55,000 to fight; $55,000 to win)

Jeremy Horn: $50,000 ($25,000 to fight; $25,000 to win)

Georges St-Pierre: $35,000 ($16,000 to fight; $19,000 to win)

Rich Franklin: $26,000 ($13,000 to fight; $13,000 to win)

Joe Riggs: $12,000 (Note that Riggs was fined 10% of this amount for failing to make weight)

Nate Quarry: $10,000

Sean Sherk: $10,000

Sam Hoger: $10,000 ($5,000 to fight; $5,000 to win)

Trevor Prangley: $6,000

Gabriel Gonzaga: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Nick Thompson: $6,000 ($3,000 to fight; $3,000 to win)

Thiago Alves: $4,000 ($2,000 to fight; $2,000 to win)

Kevin Jordan: $3,000

Jeff Newton: $2,000

Ansar Chalangov: $2,000

Keith Wisniewski: $2,000

USADA would have wrecked half of these fools.
 
That's not including like money paid to the cable company though?

$49.95 back then?

Wouldn't it be 10 mill + 40/50% to the cable company = 5 million.

And? Still disgusting unless you are a former slave owner or commandant in a North Korean Prison camp

fighters combined didnt even get 5%
 
And? Still disgusting unless you are a former slave owner or commandant or a North Korean Prison camp
Well just your numbers are very far off, even though pay the pay is shit.

You are adding a extra 9 million to the card when it's not there.
 
Paid out 350k

1.9 mill gate + 5 mill in ppv profit =6.9 mill

Jesus christ that's like 9%
 
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