Here are the fighter salary numbers from last Saturday night’s Strikeforce card held in Beverly Hills, CA. The total disclosed fighter payroll was just over $230,000.
- Gilbert Melendez - $30,000
- Tetsuji Kato - $6,000
- Joe Riggs - $29,500
- Josh Thomson - $24,500
- Daniel Puder - $20,000
- Bobby Southworth - $20,000
- Falaniko Vitale - $20,000
- Jorge Masvidal - $18,182.50
- Eugene Jackson - $15,000
- Luke Steward - $7,500
- Ron Fields - $7,000
- Billy Evangelista - $6,000
- Adam Lynn - $6,000
- Eddie Millis - $4,000
- Clint Coronel - $3,000
- Richard Dalton - $3,000
- Sam Liera - $3,000
- Anthony Figueroa - $2,000
- Miguel Linares - $1,500
- Matt Lee - $1,000
- Bill Mahood - $1,000
- Daniel McWilliams - $1,000
- Dewey Cooper - $500
- Adam Smith - $500
There were a reporting 1,000 paid tickets at $1,000 a piece. That means more or less a $1 million dollar gate. Interesting to note that a couple fighters didn’t even make enough to have purchased a ticket to then event.
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(via MMA HQ - Mixed Martial Arts News and Analysis)