Vinny Magalhaes: M-1 you can have your belt back

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/07/bellator-35-fighter-salaries-good-hawn-hieron-weedman-each-e/
No one made over 20K and that's also with 10K win bonus.

OU wrote:

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

OU wrote:

So how much does he deserve? 10K? 20?

I will put it like this....I would think the main event guy at an M-1 show who is there LHW champ would be making atleast $25k a fight. I guess I thought M-1 was bigger then what they really are. I guess they aren't as successful as I thought they were over in Europe if they can only pay out 30 grand for every fighter on their card.


Still laughable!

I just Googled "Bellator payout" and this was one of the first thing that popped up. No one earned more then 25K and that was with the 15K win bonus. Eddie Alvarez is on the list.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/4/7/826325/bellator-payouts-total-237000

So Bellator paid out over $200,000.00 more is what ur saying? m-1 paid out around $31k for all of the fighters. I think that's a joke for a company that's on Showtime and is supposedly pretty big in Europe. I guess M-1 is alot smaller then what I thought, or they're just fucking over their fighters.

All the more reason I agree with Vinny. This is what we've been talking about anyways is Vinny giving his belt back to the evil Russians.

I think you have unrealistic exceptions about what non-Zuffa companies can pay their fighters.

OU wrote:

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/07/bellator-35-fighter-salaries-good-hawn-hieron-weedman-each-e/
No one made over 20K and that's also with 10K win bonus.

You can throw out any org you want but I bet you won't find one where they paid there champion 5 grand to be the main event of the card.


Tack on the owners cheering against you for their Russian fighters and I can completely agree with Vinny. I don't see where you're going with this? This all started because someone got butthurt and thought Vinny was wrong for tweeting that. I think just the opposite.

OU wrote:

I think you have unrealistic exceptions about what non-Zuffa companies can pay their fighters.

I knew you were going there but that doesn't matter anyways. Vinny has every right to be upset enough to tell them they can have their belt back.

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

OU wrote:

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/03/07/bellator-35-fighter-salaries-good-hawn-hieron-weedman-each-e/
No one made over 20K and that's also with 10K win bonus.

You can throw out any org you want but I bet you won't find one where they paid there champion 5 grand to be the main event of the card.


Tack on the owners cheering against you for their Russian fighters and I can completely agree with Vinny. I don't see where you're going with this? This all started because someone got butthurt and thought Vinny was wrong for tweeting that. I think just the opposite.

Come on now how much weight does that "Championship" really carry? How many National Shows does M-1 do a year?
Check out how much TPF paid Uncle Creepy. Top 3 Fly in the World.
http://mmajunkie.com/news/24745/tachi-palace-fights-10-salaries-top-level-flyweights-prove-affordable.mma

Again I don't think you have realistic exceptions of what non-Zuffa organizations can pay.

Personally I think Uncle Creepy is the #1 fly but that can be debatable.

Only until the weight class gets added to the UFC and guys drop

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

OU wrote:

I think you have unrealistic exceptions about what non-Zuffa companies can pay their fighters.

I knew you were going there but that doesn't matter anyways. Vinny has every right to be upset enough to tell them they can have their belt back.

I'm not saying Vinny doesn't have a right to be upset. But he never mentioned the pay as the reason. You guys brought up the pay as an issue, not him.

bobbitt15 wrote:

Only until the weight class gets added to the UFC and guys drop

Well you have Mighty Mouse and Lil Joe. Outside of that who are you picking to beat Uncle Creepy? Besides that if you think he can't hang with them, you're wrong.

OU wrote:

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

OU wrote:

I think you have unrealistic exceptions about what non-Zuffa companies can pay their fighters.

I knew you were going there but that doesn't matter anyways. Vinny has every right to be upset enough to tell them they can have their belt back.

I'm not saying Vinny doesn't have a right to be upset. But he never mentioned the pay as the reason. You guys brought up the pay as an issue, not him.

Yeah I was kinda duped into discussing the pay. That isn't even my point anyways. Too see your boss cheering against you and not the fight itself is my problem and why I am siding with Vinny on this. I know non Zuffa orgs aren't gonna have the stroke to pay big money. That's a given, but paying out $30k for all of the fighters on a Showtime card is pretty sad. I knew they wouldn't be paying big money but $30k, cmon.


At the end of the day I just wanna say, FUCK M-1!