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Pay Woos For MMA Professionals

It seems like the UFC, especially considering MMA is the hardest job in the world and it is a personal star driven sport is completely shafting it’s fighters.

Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson for that matter should not have made less than $1 million last night – is it just all my friends and I or does the UFC’s revenue distribution seem to award Dana White more then the people drawing in the money?”

Out of the tens of millions of dollars a UFC event makes only 5-10% go to fighters? That seems insanely low, in the NBA for example players are guaranteed to earn at least 57% of revenues and benefits.

And their contracts aren’t reduced due to their large endorsement contracts.

UFC 114 Hyped Event a Winner

The hype generated between rivals Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans paid off with UFC generating big bucks last weekend.

UFC 114 took place Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas also aired live on pay per view and attracted a sellout crowd of just over 15,000 fans.

The exact figures will be released later this week by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

The UFC has declared the event an official sellout.

It is believed that much of the events success was due to the fierce and violent trash talking that both headliners campaigned with.

Big Payouts at UFC 114

Memorial weekend saw UFC 114 action at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas which also aired on Spike TV and then became a pay per view event.

The two top salaries of the event probably due to their long simmering feud where the event headliners Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson who earned the top payouts for the event.

Evans who won the main event walked away with $435,000, almost have of this was win bonus money, and Jackson who earned about $250,000.

The entire payroll for the event was $1.371 million dollars; half of this went to Evans and Jackson.

Other top money makers from the bill included Michael Bisping at $190,000, Antonio Rogerio Nogueirra at $120,000 and Dong Hyun Kim with $64,000.

UFC returns to Television with Primetime

Primetime, the new show featuring the UFC is a three part series that will consist of a detailed look at the upcoming UFC 114 light heavyweight grudge match between former light heavyweight champions Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans. Or as you may know them “Rampage” vs “Sugar”

The first episode will air on May 12 right after the seventh episode of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 11. Episodes two and three will air on March 19 and 26, respectively.

This is all building up to the upcoming bout on May 29th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas between former TUF 10 coaches and will serve as the headline contest for UFC 114.