I may have my math wrong, but did the tournament winners really make enough money to be happy in bellator?
After all, once you were deemed champ, you kind of sit on your butt until the next tournament wraps up or your fight a one-off until you fight the next tournament winner.
In theory, the guy who comes in 2nd place gets to fight quite often because they get to enter the next season's tournament and fight a handful of times (and get a handful of paychecks) while the champ sits out awaiting for the tournament to conclude.
Isn't this why Konrad retired?
Pre-championship, Konrad fought three times in 2010 for Bellator.
Once champ, he fought once in 2011 and once in 2012.