mmajunkie.com - 2/2/2008
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Despite just one professional MMA fight to his name, Brock Lesnar (1-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will earn a guaranteed $250,000 in tonight’s UFC 81 fight with Frank Mir.
The news was reported by Dave Meltzer in a column for Yahoo! Sports . (We’ll have that column posted here on MMAjunkie.com shortly.)
The Lesnar-Mir fight is the co-main-event of tonight’s pay-per-view show, which ...
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Fame Worth More Than Experience For The UFC
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A lot of sites are blogging about the recent Dave Meltzer Yahoo! Sports article, which reports the payouts that Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar will receive for their fight later this evening at UFC 81. After reviewing the numbers, it’s not hard to see why this is causing some commotion. According to Meltzer’s article, Brock Lesnar will receive $250,000 to fight, and an additional $200,000 if he wins. So Lesnar could potentially walk away with nearly half a million dollars for fifteen minutes (or less) of work. Not too shabby for a guy ...
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