Damn Dana how are you only going to pay Rory McDonald $59k for that beating

[thernbroom]

Conor McGregor road an overloaded hype train into his UFC 189 match-up with late replacement Chad Mendes, but detractors aside, he lived up to the hype.

After surviving some early takedowns and ground and pound from Mendes, McGregor turned the tables late in the second round, scoring a TKO stoppage due to strikes with just 7 ticks of the clock left.

Say what you will about McGregor’s brash style, but it sells. And he was rewarded handsomely, to the tune of half-a-million dollars in disclosed pay. Mendes, for stepping in on short notice, equaled that amount.

They’re full contracts were not disclosed, but each likely had other triggers (i.e. pay-per-view bonuses, etc.) in their contracts that made their final tallies much higher than the disclosed $500,000 each on the payroll reported to the Nevada Athletic Commission.

Welterweight champion Robbie Lawler earned $300,000 for his brutal war with Rory MacDonald, whose reported show money was $59,000.

UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor took place on Saturday, July 11, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor Fighter Salaries

Conor McGregor: $500,000 (no win bonus)
def. Chad Mendes: $500,000

Robbie Lawler: $300,000 (includes $150,000 win bonus)
def. Rory MacDonald: $59,000

Jeremy Stephens: $72,000 (includes $40,000 win bonus; minus 20-percent fine)*
def. Dennis Bermudez: $34,000 (includes 20-percent fine from Stephens)

Gunnar Nelson: $58,000 (includes $29,000 win bonus)
def. Brandon Thatch: $22,000

Thomas de Almeida: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. Brad Pickett: $30,000

Matt Brown: $92,000 (includes $46,000 win bonus)
def. Tim Means: $23,000

Alex Garcia: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Swick: $48,000

John Howard: $42,000 (includes $21,000 win bonus)
def. Cathal Pendred: $10,000

Cody Garbrandt: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Henry Briones: $10,000

Louis Smolka: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus)
def. Neil Seery: $15,000

Cody Phister: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
Yosdenis Cedeno: $13,000

*Jeremy Stephens failed to make weight and was fined $8,000 (20-percent of his show money)

UFC 189 Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $1,952,000

http://www.mmaweekly.com/... for-main-event

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

Dana and his billionaire partners should be taken to court and sued because of this monopoly

seriously hes contending for title and not even making 100k on a big ppv card?

make a goddamn union

 

[Willy Waffle]

shyt is criminal. take a ass whooping like that to look like a halloween mask for 59K

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Let Dana tell you this was their biggest card and nikkas getting paid baby money. @ Conor and mendes making the same amount of money

 

[The ADD]

He either has a deal that includes a lower base in exchange for higher incentives or he has the worst representation ever.

 

[Triangularbirds]

fight was on some rocky shyt, fukk dana for paying mcdonald 59k, nikka went the distance against a fukking champion and a hard puncher and that nikka pays him dirt

 

[Doctor Doom]

Should be enough to pay down the line medical bills

 

[Drones]

I don't know who has a worse risk-of-injury to payment ratio: The UFC or the NFL.

 

[krackdagawd]

the way he passed out a bit at the end is absolutely terrifying, fukk Dana. This dude better take a good time off before taking another fight.

I can't remember which promoter/fighter it was but he told a story about a fighter nodding off just like that in the back and that was the last time he saw him

 

[keepemup]

That brutality of that fight passed what I am willing to call entertainment.

Those two were going off of pure adrenaline. Rory was undoubtedly close to death. Will he be able to cover all of his expenses with that 59K?

The hollow platitudes of being called a 'warrior' will not mean anything when one becomes a demented middle aged man that has to rely on others to chaperone you to the bathroom.

I honestly would like to see kneepads, elbowpads and heel pads. I don't think the sport will suffer because of it, and it will help to reduce some of the trauma that these fighters have to endure.

 

[cook]

rory's nose

 

[TheBeigeBomber]

59k for this? smh. disgusting.

 

[MVike28]

fukk



This is a racketeering business plain and simple.

Fertittas and Dana need to be hit with RICO charges off the rip.

 

[BeefWellingtonThe2nd]

either this is an old contract he's on, or he really need a new agent, cos he's been top 5 for a while now, no way should he only be on 59k

 

[LinusCaldwell]

We talk about the pay scale in part 1