UFC 86 Salaries Released; Griffin and Jackson Paid Like Champions

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 UFC 86 Salaries Released; Griffin and Jackson Paid Like Champions
( “No matter what happens, I want you to know that I love you.” Photo courtesy of UFC.com . ) The official payouts for “Jackson vs. Griffin” are below, courtesy of MMA Weekly . Unless otherwise noted, each winning fighter’s salary represents a doubling of their base salary. Forrest Griffin: $310,000 ($100,000 base salary, plus $150,000 win bonus, plus ... [link]

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Chris Lytle Got Paid 14K to Bleed
Published 7/8/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... $40,000 more than the amount it would take for me to eat a slice of rotting opossum fresh from the roadside, just to give you some perspective on my pay scale for ill-advised/insane feats of human stupidity. For Chris Lytle, that number is much, much lower. Lytle took a loss by unanimous decision from Josh Koscheck at UFC this past weekend, for which he was rewarded with exactly $14,000. However, consider that in exchange for $14K, Lytle looked like this during the fight: [image] Cage Potato puts it succinctly : Underpaid: Chris Lytle, who was paid a mere $1,000 for every ...

$14,000 FOR THIS
Published 7/9/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
... UFC 86 came and went with nary a mention from With Leather, which is a shame given the reported excellence of the Forrest Griffin-Rampage Jackson headliner.  Also newsworthy was the bloodbath Josh Koscheck gave Chris Lytle, for which Lytle was paid a mere 14 grand (link via ...

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