Pride Fighter Salaries for the Second Coming

[BigBanda]

Figher purses are in, remember this does not include any other bonuses. This is simply what DSE is required to submit by law to the NSAC.

Source: http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/...3505&zoneid=13

MMAWeekly has obtained the fighter salary information for Pride 33: The Second Coming, which took place on Saturday, February 24th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The following figures are from the fighter salary information that Dream Stage Entertainment was required by law to submit to the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Although MMA fighters are not unionized, the fighters' salaries are still public record in the United States, just as with every other major sport in the US.

The question of, "How much do Pride's fighters make when they fight in Japan?" still remains unanswered, but the fighter salaries for this event do provide a great deal of insight into this question.

Given that Pride's Japan-based shows often fill the 35,000-seat Saitama Super Arena, it's likely that the salaries for the USA event were smaller than the salaries for a show in Japan, but it's unlikely that the two sets of numbers would be drastically different from one another.

Just as with UFC fighter salaries, any undisclosed bonuses that Pride also pays its fighters, but does not disclose to the athletic commissions, are not reflected in the figures below.

As with UFC salaries, we're listing "Main Event Fighters," "Main Card Fighters," and "Preliminary Fighters." All non-main-event fighter for this card are listed below as "Main Card Fighters" because there were no preliminary bouts on this card. None of the fights were taped before the show went on the air, so there were no "Preliminary Fighters."

Though our listings still note which fighters won their fights and which fighters lost, there were no winners' bonuses on this card. In addition, next to each fighter's name is the number of fights that he has had in Pride.


Main Event Fighters

-Wanderlei Silva: $150,000 (28th fight in Pride; lost to Dan Henderson in main event)

-Dan Henderson: $50,000 (18th fight in Pride; defeated Wanderlei Silva in main event)


Main Card Fighters

-Mauricio "Shogun" Rua: $50,000 (13th fight in Pride; defeated Alistair Overeem)

-Takanori Gomi: $20,000 (15th fight in Pride; lost to Nick Diaz)

-Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: $20,000 (10th fight in Pride; lost to Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou)

-Nick Diaz: $15,000 (1st fight in Pride; defeated Takanori Gomi)

-Joachim Hansen: $15,000 (6th fight in Pride; defeated Jason Ireland)

-Hayato Sakurai: $10,000 (11th fight in Pride; defeated Mac Danzig)

-Frank Trigg: $10,000 (2nd fight in Pride; defeated Kazuo Misaki)

-Kazuo Misaki: $10,000 (8th fight in Pride; lost to Frank Trigg)

-Sergei Kharitonov: $10,000 (11th fight in Pride; defeated Mike Russow)

-Alistair Overeem: $10,000 (14th fight in Pride; lost to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua)

-Travis Wiuff: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; lost to James Lee)

-Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; defeated Antonio Rogerio Nogueira)

-Mac Danzig: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; lost to Hayato Sakurai)

-Jason Ireland: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; lost to Joachim Hansen)

-Mike Russow: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; lost to Sergei Kharitonov)

-James Lee: $10,000 (1st fight in Pride; defeated Travis Wiuff)

Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $430,000

[Masscore]

Wow, Hendo makes 50 grand for beating Wandy. Cro-Cop makes 350 grand for beating Sanchez. Wait wasn't Pride suppose to pay their better fighters more then the UFC?

[Noob]

Even Wand's payday wasn't that great. 150k is good, but there are fighters who make more. Maybe there's a good back end on their contract. Let's hope so.

[Afro]

Originally Posted by Masscore

Wow, Hendo makes 50 grand for beating Wandy. Cro-Cop makes 350 grand for beating Sanchez. Wait wasn't Pride suppose to pay their better fighters more then the UFC?

They use to be even in paydays, but started bringing in huge PPV buyrates and Pride started losin money

[willieshatner]

Originally Posted by Masscore

Wow, Hendo makes 50 grand for beating Wandy. Cro-Cop makes 350 grand for beating Sanchez. Wait wasn't Pride suppose to pay their better fighters more then the UFC?

have you been paying attention? the gold 'ol days when Pride had their network TV deal are long gone. and UFC is growing at a fantastic rate

[The Sundance Kid]

Wow, Trigg said that the money for fighting for Pride was Great and a big reason that he steped into there ring, 10 grand? I would pull it up but i'm on my work computer and it is slow as hell, but I'm pretty sure that he made more money than that for fighting Hughes, GSP, and hell Probably Miller.

I guess Pride does like UFC with doubeling salary for the winning bonuses? can anyone confirm this?

[vegas bushido]

This is outrageous. I almost dont believe it. Nick Diaz gets paid 1.5x more than Kasaki who just won the bushido tournamnt?? Gome the champ gets paid 20g and lil nog gets 20g too?

[b0sH]

Pay like that, expect UFC's roster to keep growing.

[Mac]

Hey Wandy's getting Vera type pay. That's just crazy Wandy hasn't done anything to earn that.

[The Sundance Kid]

Originally Posted by vegas bushido

This is outrageous. I almost dont believe it. Nick Diaz gets paid 1.5x more than Kasaki who just won the bushido tournamnt?? Gome the champ gets paid 20g and lil nog gets 20g too?

*Diaz got .5 more than Kasaki, but i see what you mean, But I will give it to Pride, there low end is higher than the UFC, there has NEVER been a UFC where the least paid guy still made 10 grand, While the UFC is getting away from paying fighters 2+2, they should take a page out of prides book and raise there minimum wage to 10 grand a fight.