UFC 141 salaries: Win or lose, Brock Lesnar will be tonight's top earner

The full paydays (show/win money) for tonight's fighters include:

Brock Lesnar: $400,000 show/no win bonus
Alistair Overeem: $264,285.71/$121,428.57
Donald Cerrone: $30,000/$30,000
Nate Diaz: $37,000/$37,000
Jon Fitch: $60,000/$60,000
Johny Hendricks: $26,000/$26,000
Alexander Gustafsson: $16,000/$16,000
Vladimir Matyushenko: $40,000/$40,000
Jim Hettes: $8,000/$8,000
Nam Phan: $8,000/$8,000
Junior Assuncao: $8,000/$8,000
Ross Pearson: $20,000/$20,000
Danny Castillo: $19,000/$19,000
Anthony Njokuani: $12,000/$12,000
Dong Hyun Kim: $41,000/$41,000
Sean Pierson: $8,000/$8,000
Efrain Escudero: $10,000/$10,000
Jacob Volkmann: $16,000/$16,000
Luis Ramos: $6,000/$6,000
Matt Riddle: $15,000/$15,000
Manny Gamburyan: $18,000/$18,000
Diego Nunes: $12,000/$12,000

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any other "locker room" or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays. They also do not include portions of the pay-per-view revenue that some top-level fighters receive.

In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.

Pursuant to the terms of Overeem's UFC contract as outlined in the complaint, he is guaranteed a "bout fee" of $264,285 on Dec. 30. Should he defeat Lesnar, Overeem would receive an additional $121,428 "win bonus." Overeem is also in line to receive a $2 pay-per-view bonus per viewer, "for all revenues received by UFC-Zuffa for telecast of the Lesnar fight in the United States, Canada or over the internet in excess of $500,000."

Biggest payday of Overeems career coming up here. Possible $385,714 plus $2 for every buy after the first 10,000. Even at the average buyrate lately of 350k or so thats $680,000 added onto his base pay and possible win bonus. Motherfucker could pull in over a mil tonight.

I stand corrected.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/26755/golden-glory-legal-team-wins-judgement-to-garnish-overeems-ufc-141-wages.mma

I expected Lesnar to be close to 1 million, some of these fighters should look into hiring Al Haymon.

Ali wrote:

I expected Lesnar to be close to 1 million, some of these fighters should look into hiring Al Haymon.

He gets a share of the buyrate too. I think his share might be $4 though.

Ludo wrote:

Ali wrote:

I expected Lesnar to be close to 1 million, some of these fighters should look into hiring Al Haymon.

He gets a share of the buyrate too. I think his share might be $4 though.

Even so that figure surprised me.

$400,000K is a nice chunk of change.

Plus sponsors and potentiall $4 per PPV..... He made a few million last night.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/26789/golden-glory-reps-still-going-after-overeem-look-to-get-pay-per-view-bonuses.mma
A Nevada court recently ruled that Knock Out Investments, a fighter
management group associated with Overeem's former Golden Glory team, was
due $241,285.49 due to breach of contract.


However, as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported on Monday, a $200,000 surety bond
wasn't posted, and Overeem earned his full "show" ($264,285.71) and
"win" ($121,428.57) money following a first-round TKO victory over Brock
Lesnar in the Dec. 30 event's headliner.