UFC 76 Salaries: Chuck Liddell Earns 500,000;JardineGets500,000; Jardine Gets 500,000;JardineGets14,000 (original) (raw)

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has obtained UFC 76 salary figures from the California State Athletic Commission.

UFC 76 took place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 22, and featured Keith Jardine’s upset split-decision victory over Chuck Liddell. Jardine earned 14,000forthevictory,andLiddellearned14,000 for the victory, and Liddell earned 14,000forthevictory,andLiddellearned500,000 in defeat.

Other top paydays included Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, who earned 150,000—150,000 — 150,000—106,000 more than Forrest Griffin, who submitted him in the third round. Additionally, Lyoto Machida earned 50,000foravictoryoverKazuhiroNakamura(50,000 for a victory over Kazuhiro Nakamura (50,000foravictoryoverKazuhiroNakamura(20,000).

The total payroll for the event was $954,000 (though 68 percent of it went to Liddell and Rua).

The full amounts included:

Keith Jardine ($14,000) def. Chuck Liddell ($500,000)

Forrest Griffin ($44,000) def. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua ($150,000)

Jon Fitch ($44,000) def. Diego Sanchez ($22,000)

Lyoto Machida ($50,000) def. Kazuhiro Nakamura ($20,000)

Tyson Griffin ($24,000) def. Thiago Tavares ($9,000)

Rich Clementi ($24,000) def. Anthony Johnson ($5,000)

Jeremy Stephens ($6,000) def. Diego Saraiva ($3,000)

Christian Wellisch ($14,000) def. Scott Junk ($4,000)

Matt Wiman ($16,000) def. Michihiro Omigawa ($5,000)

All of the night’s winning fighters earned 50 percent of their pay to “show” and an additional 50 percent as “win bonuses.” (The only exceptions would have been Liddell, who would not have earned a win bonus, and Rua, whose win bonus would have been $50,000.)

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 fighterâ??s income. They also don’t include any bonuses the UFC sometimes pays for Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night, and Submission of the Night — which pay $40,000 each — and other assorted pay-per-view and performance-based bonuses.

In other words, these are simply base salaries reported to the CSAC and do not represent the total amounts earned by each fighter.

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