La de los payasos?

Was 2011 a good year financially to be a fighter? Well, that depends on what your name is. If it is Tito Ortiz, then yes, it was a very good year. On the other hand, if you happen to be Byron Bloodworth, you might want to consider keeping your day job. While the average UFC fighter made over $91,000 in 2011, 72 fighters (21%) made $10,000 or less. A few more stats that you might find interesting:

- While Tito Ortiz tops the list for 2011, he probably ended up making less in 2011 than in 2010. His new UFC contract doesn't give him a cut of the pay-per-view revenue like his previous contracts did. - The average household income in the U.S. is around $45,000 per year, yet overhalf of the UFC's fighters (51%) made less than the average American in 2011. Sometimes it doesn't pay to get punched in the face.


Now, for the salary results. It is worth noting that these are only the reported salaries plus Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses that have been made public. Many top performing fighters get additional bonuses paid out to them that aren't reported, plus the top guys get a cut of the pay-per-view buys for events that they headline (not to mention every fighter makes sponsorship money). Also, many athletic commissions don't report fighter's salary info, so for those we've estimated a fighter's purse based on what they have earned in their other recent fights. Fighters with some estimated purses are marked with a * in the database. This data should still be considered very close to accurate, as most fighters' purses remain rather steady from fight to fight (unless they ink a new contract in the meantime).
So, without further ado, here's the salary of each UFC fighter for 2010. To check out 2010's fighter salary info, click here.


1 Tito Ortiz* $1,495,000
2 Michael Bisping* $850,000
3 Jon Jones* $785,000
4 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira* $750,000
5 Vitor Belfort* $620,000
6 Lyoto Machida* $604,000
7 Frank Mir* $575,000
7 Rampage Jackson* $575,000
9 Mauricio Rua* $565,000
10 Donald Cerrone $494,000
11 Junior dos Santos $485,000
12 Rashad Evans* $480,000
13 Anderson Silva* $475,000
14 Wanderlei Silva $470,000
15 Cung Le $420,000
16 Brock Lesnar $400,000
17 Forrest Griffin* $400,000
18 Georges St-Pierre* $400,000
19 Alistair Overeem $385,714
20 B.J. Penn* $375,000
21 Nate Diaz* $364,000
22 Frankie Edgar* $339,000
23 Cheick Kongo* $330,000
24 Dan Henderson $320,000
25 Chris Lytle* $310,000
26 Urijah Faber* $305,000
27 Clay Guida $301,000
28 Nick Diaz $275,000
29 Johny Hendricks* $270,000
30 Diego Sanchez $260,000
31 Randy Couture* $250,000
32 Martin Kampmann* $247,000
33 Jose Aldo* $225,000
34 Gleison Tibau* $224,000
35 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira* $210,000
36 Ross Pearson* $200,000
37 Kenny Florian* $195,000
38 Edson Barboza* $194,000
39 Ben Henderson* $193,000
40 Dong Hyun Kim $193,000
41 Melvin Guillard* $190,000
42 Chris Leben* $184,000
43 Brian Stann* $181,000
44 Josh Koscheck* $181,000
45 Brandon Vera $180,000
46 Mark Munoz* $180,000
47 Brian Ebersole* $177,000
48 Joe Lauzon* $173,000
49 Michael McDonald $161,000
50 Jeremy Stephens* $156,000
51 Dominick Cruz* $155,000
52 Matt Wiman* $155,000
53 Jake Ellenberger* $151,000
54 Mark Hominick* $151,000
55 Chan Sung Jung* $150,000
56 Jake Shields* $150,000
57 Mirko Cro Cop* $150,000
58 Miguel Torres $146,800
59 Anthony Johnson* $145,000
60 Pablo Garza* $145,000
61 Carlos Condit $143,000
62 Gray Maynard* $138,000
63 Chris Weidman* $134,000
64 Demian Maia* $129,000
65 Stefan Struve* $128,000
66 Brian Bowles* $127,000
67 Danny Castillo* $124,600
68 Shane Roller* $124,000
69 Jon Fitch* $120,000
70 Tony Ferguson* $116,000
71 Dan Hardy* $115,000
72 Nam Phan* $115,000
73 Yves Edwards* $112,000
74 Leonard Garcia* $111,000
75 Nik Lentz* $110,000
76 Thiago Silva $110,000
77 Sam Stout $108,000
78 Anthony Njokuani* $106,000
79 Dave Herman $106,000
80 Jim Miller* $105,000
81 Ricardo Lamas* $105,000
82 Bart Palaszewski $103,500
83 Travis Browne* $102,000
84 Vladimir Matyushenko $102,000
85 Brendan Schaub* $100,000
86 Cain Velasquez $100,000
87 Ed Herman $100,000
88 Matt Hughes* $100,000
89 Takanori Gomi* $100,000
90 Dennis Siver* $99,000
91 Kyle Noke* $99,000
92 Mark Hunt* $99,000
93 Thiago Alves* $99,000
94 Aaron Simpson* $98,000
95 Alexander Gustafsson* $96,000
96 Diego Brandao $96,000
97 Erik Koch* $94,000
98 Joe Stevenson* $94,000
99 Paul Kelly $94,000
100 Tyson Griffin* $93,500

El resto de luchadores del ranking, se pueden ver en el siguiente enlace: http://www.mma-manifesto.com/ufc-fig...-salaries.html

Comparandolo con el año anterior, vemos que GSP ha ganado menos de la mitad durante este año, pero sin embargo, para Tito Ortiz el año 2011 ha sido muy generoso respecto al anterior ejercicio jejeje

Que bien se lo monta Tito, cojones.

Y más teniendo en cuenta lo paquete que es.

No te creas, para algunos es incluso top 10.

jajaja claro como Lesnar hace 1 año.

Ojo al segundo, Bisping, la verdad es que se lo merece, debe estar en el top 1500 p4p.

tito el mago ortiz,lo del amigo éste es de truco de magia

Los luchadores, al igual que otros deportistas profesionales, cobran en relación a lo que generan....y a veces generan por causas extradeportivas. Vamos, lo que todos sabíamos ya..

Establecer proporcionalidades entre salario y escalafón en el ranking es delicado. Muchos miembros de este foro jamás se rascarían el bolsillo para ver en vivo un combate de St.Pierre, top3 indiscutible, pero pagarían dinero alegremente por ver uno de Hunt, algo peor ranqueado en su división.

Espectáculo, fama, bocachanclismo..., por lo que sea, existe gente a la que le gusta ver pelear a Tito, independientemente de lo quemado que está Ortiz como luchador. Quizás sea algo tan simple como que este deporte lleva pocos años de recorrido, y su "star-system" todavía no es muy extenso. Muchos yankees se aficionaron a las MMA en la época en la que Tito lo petaba, y aún les mola verlo intentándolo con la chavalada. Nada que que no podamos entender los que aún seguimos a nuestros primeros ídolos, no?
(En mi caso, de seguir compitiendo, seguiría yendo con Vovchanchyn, por ejemplo)

PD Eso sí, lo de Bisping también se me escapa

Solo con la venta de entradas ya pagan a los luchadores y les sobran 20 milloncetes... :S