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Affliction: ‘Banned’ salaries top a reported $3.3 million; Tim Sylvia earns $800,000
Published 7/21/2008 by MMAmania at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
No sense in compiling them when SI.com has already done it: Just for the sake of comparison UFC 84: “Ill Will” fighter salaries tallied $1,098,000, which is considered high — if not the highest ever — for the promotion. Wow.

Affliction Banned Fighter Payouts and Bonuses
Published 7/22/2008 by CagE at MMA News, Results, UFC blog, Ultimate Fighter, Rumors, Video and Opinion
... Payouts via SI.com. The event payed out an unprecedented 3.3 Million to the fighters. Fedor Emelianenko was rumored to be asking 2 Mil a fight, but his 300k was nothing compared to Tim Sylvia’s 800k. ...

Affliction’s Fighter Salaries Are Absolutely Ridiculous
Published 7/22/2008 by ben at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
(Fighter salaries for Affliction: Banned, from SI.com via MMA Mania. Click for larger image.) One major caveat before we get started — there’s no way that Fedor Emelianenko made a half-million less than Tim Sylvia to be on this card. Either he was given a large signing bonus, or he’s getting a cut of the PPV, or both. No, I don’t have a source on that; you’ll just have to trust me. Now that that’s out of the way, HOLY CRAP. There’s a difference between paying well and guaranteeing that ...