Jones earned $500,000 & DC earned $90,000 for UFC 182

[TheLoneWolf527]

Let's say that Jones has the same PPV points in his contract as Eddie Alvarez's original UFC contract did, then it would look like this:

$500,000 to show
$200,000 for hitting 400,000 buys
$400,000 for hitting 600,000 buys
$2.50 for every buy over 600,000

If they hit 850,000 buys (guesstimate on my part), then that would mean $625,000 extra.

500,000 + 200,000 + 400,000 + 625,000 = $1,750,000 Bones would have made if he has the same PPV points structure

 

[kflo]

DC is not getting any PPV pts.

I'd say he got $90k salary, then another $100k from the UFC, and probably another $50k from his sponsors.

tl;dr DC probably made ~$250k

everything in this post is made up.

 

[Obsidian]

More in a year, as in 2 fights. And his brothers are scrubs in a league with 1600 players.

Chandler is definitely not a scrub. Hes on his rookie contract. When that expires he will easily eclipse what Jon is making.

 

[AFewDollarsMore]

nfl contracts here:

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/

 

[MarcCA]

What is the criteria? I mean, why was Danny Castillo paid better than, say, Myles Jury?

Compare the numbers with UFC 100, after 6 years of solid UFC growth they are still paying pretty much the same. And still with a crazy criteria.

Brock Lesnar: $400,000 (no win bonus) def. Frank Mir: $45,000
Georges St-Pierre: $400,000 ($200,000 win bonus) def. Thiago Alves: $60,000
Jon Fitch: $90,000 (includes $45,000 win bonus) def. Paulo Thiago: $8,000
Dan Henderson: $250,000 ($150,000 win bonus) def. Michael Bisping: $150,000
Yoshihiro Akiyama: $60,000 ($20,000 win bonus) def. Alan Belcher: $19,000
Mark Coleman: $100,000 ($50,000 win bonus) def. Stephan Bonnar: $25,000
Jim Miller: $22,000 ($11,000 win bonus) def. Mac Danzig: $20,000
Jon Jones: $18,000 ($9,000 win bonus) def. Jake O'Brien: $13,000
Dong Hyun Kim: $58,000 ($29,000 win bonus) def. T.J. Grant: $5,000
Tom Lawlor: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus) def. C.B. Dollaway: $14,000
Shannon Gugerty: $10,000 ($5,000 win bonus) def. Matt Grice: $7,000

Champ Jon Jones: $500,000 (no win bonus) def. Daniel Cormier: $90,000
Donald Cerrone: $140,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus) def. Myles Jury: $16,000
Brad Tavares: $50,000 (includes $25,000 win bonus) def. Nate Marquardt: $49,000
Kyoji Horiguchi: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Louis Gaudinot: $10,000
Hector Lombard: $106,000 (includes $53,000 win bonus) def. Josh Burkman: $45,000
Paul Felder: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Danny Castillo: $36,000
Cody Garbrandt: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus) def. Marcus Brimage: $12,000
Shawn Jordan: $44,000 (includes $22,000 win bonus) def. Jared Cannonier: $8,000
Evan Dunham: $54,000 (includes $27,000 win bonus) def. Rodrigo Damm: $12,000
Omari Akhmedov: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Mats Nilsson: $8,000
Marion Reneau: $17,600 (includes $8,000 win bonus) def. Alexis Dufresne: $6,400

 

[Shammon]

Okay? We're talking about the work of two starters in the most popular sport in the country practicing and playing over 32-games and Jones is making more money in a niche sport only fighting twice.

Jones is obviously practicing and working as well but he's said he doesn't go to the gym between fights and his brothers are practicing just as much if not much more.

I don't know about that. A fight camp is typically 3 months so a conservative guess says Jones is training at a minimum of 6 months a year. MMA training I would argue is more grueling than NFL practice. The NFL season, including preseason, and playoffs is roughly the same amount of time.

 

[FootstompShonie]

Jones is Aaron Rodgers.

Okay? Aaron Rodgers is getting like 10-million.

If Jones is making more than his brothers combined he's probably getting like 2-mil a fight like you said. So he's getting 6-million for a normal 3-fight year.

Seeing as the NFL is like 1000x more popular and profitable than the UFC, Jones pay relative to Rodgers isn't bad at all. MMA is a niche sport and the one Aaron Rodgers playoff game gets like 20-30x the viewership a Jones fight does.

Also, Russell Wilson got paid only 800k and he won the super bowl last year lol

 

[SerrabyTKO]

MMA training I would argue is more grueling than NFL practice.

Have you participated in either?

 

[Ziegmund]

Owh cmon, Dana gave Carwin a big fat check backstage after the Lesnar fight, just for doing such a good job. Enough to make Carwin stop crying in his lockerroom.
You dont think both DC and JJ we're rewarded handsomely for hyping this event up to probably almost 1 mil buys?

With how they hyped this fight, alongside their sponsors, I see DC walking away with a good 2 mil, and JJ somewhere around 3/4. Easilyyyyy. I base these numbers on nothing, but would bet my left nutsack that they aint complaining about their purse.

 

[Shammon]

Have you participated in either?

I haven't ever fought so no, just judging by what I've seen in the gym and on school practice fields lol.

 

[Basil**]

I can't believe that in 2015 there's still fighters getting $8000 to show and $8000 to win on a god damn UFC PPV card. Fucking absurd.

 

[Coyotexx***]

for those laughing at Jone's pay what he made in that one fight im sure yall don't make 1\4 that in a year

DC's pay is definitely not incredulous doh

 

[kurtwpg]

Okay? Aaron Rodgers is getting like 10-million.

If Jones is making more than his brothers combined he's probably getting like 2-mil a fight like you said. So he's getting 6-million for a normal 3-fight year.

Seeing as the NFL is like 1000x more popular and profitable than the UFC, Jones pay relative to Rodgers isn't bad at all. MMA is a niche sport and the one Aaron Rodgers playoff game gets like 20-30x the viewership a Jones fight does.

Also, Russell Wilson got paid only 800k and he won the super bowl last year lol

Rodgers made $18 millon this year, or about 7% of his teams entire gross revenue from all sources. Jones makes about 7% of the gross revenue for cards he is on. And very few guys in the UFC make 20% of what he does.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Jones made 500k total? Like 250/250? LOL his brother probably made that in one half of a preseason game.

Arthur Jones just signed a $33m ($10M guaranteed) five year contract in early 2014. He made $4.5M this year (not counting playoff games). This comes out to $280K per regular season game. That is nowhere near top pay for a defensive end. JJ Watt earned a reportd $16M this season as a base salary.

Chandler Jones played only ten games in 2014, so I am not sure how that affected his pay, but he had $1.1M guaranteed, meaning he made at least that much despite the injury.

If Jones were to fight twice a year he would be making that Chandler money.

 

[CC27]

Jones gets PPV points nad this card is probably gonna do 700-1 mill buys which means Jones will be making millions

For a million buy Card eddie Alvarez contract would have given him close to 2 mill, so what do you think Jones will get if a card does a million buys?

 

[chiefwiggum]

That's the disclosed pay.

Jones def cleared a million with ppv points.

Cormier possibly too if he got them as well.

Shouldnt the best fighter in the companies disclosed payout be well over a million dollars?

 

[FootstompShonie]

Rodgers made $18 millon this year, or about 7% of his teams entire gross revenue from all sources. Jones makes about 7% of the gross revenue for cards he is on. And very few guys in the UFC make 20% of what he does.

No 18-million is his salary cap number, what he actually gets paid (actual salary) is 10-million. Of course this doesn't include his original signing bonus at the start of the contract.

My only point is Jones is making really great money. You're comparing him to the highest paid player in the NFL, a sport literally making 20-30x more money than the UFC lol.

And again, super bowl champion Rusell Wilson leading my Seattle Seahawks made only 800k.

 

[ginopascali]

http://mmajunkie.com/2015/01/ufc-182-salaries-jon-jones-500k-tops-list-of-disclosed-payouts

"Jones earned $500,000. His opponent, Daniel Cormier, who lost a unanimous decision, earned $90,000 (and would have received another $90,000 as a win bonus if victorious)."

What a joke. James Toney also did 500K for his fight.

 

[Bones245n4847]

Jones probably did around 5 mil total including ppv pct and sponsors + fon bonus. I think Cormier probably did near 500k total. Do the challengers get the same ppv cut as the champ? I don't think so but I haven't seen their contracts. Poor Cormier, but on another note Cowboy made bank.

 

[method115]

I can't believe that in 2015 there's still fighters getting $8000 to show and $8000 to win on a god damn UFC PPV card. Fucking absurd.

Seeing as how the UFC is in a decline it's really not surprising. Did you expect the UFC to keep paying more and more even when they are doing worse then they used to?