The Most Powerful Statement Was Made Post Cormier Fight By Jon Jones

[Master Teacher]

He's a bigger name than all of em


Dude has headlined how many PPVs now as the A-Side...and this dude pulling in the same guarantee as Keith Thurman?

ain't no A side in MMA

Forest griffen was making more than Anderson Silva during his run because he was Dana boy, so as chuck liddel after being KO'd by rashad and rampage

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Jones already has the BJJ skills of a black belt.

Agreed.

 

[Mowgli]

White Belt Jon Jones vs. Black Belt Lyoto Machida

White Belt Jon Jones vs. Black Belt Vitor Belfort

Jon's sub skills are nasty despite the fact that he doesn't wear pajamas when he trains

Jones has a brown belt in jiujitsu. Also he does so much grappling in jiujitsu without formal belts his skill level is probably already very high.

 

[NaiSim]

Brehs the $500k for Jones is just the disclosed pay reported to the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He gets a PPV cut as well, but the terms are unknown.


This was Randy Couture's contract in 2008.

The bout agreement distributed by Randy Couture at yesterday’s press conference included the UFC’s pay-per-view bonus scale. A picture of the agreement can be found here. The bonus scale is as follows:

• 100,000 – 175,000 buys – $1 per buy
• 175,000 – 300,000 buys – $1.50 per buy
• 300,000 – 330,000 buys – $2 per buy
• 330,000 – plus buys – $3 per buy

Based on Couture’s stated belief that his fight with Tim Sylvia did roughly 520,000 buys, that would amount to a total contracted payout of $1,142,500, representing a $250,000 downside guarantee and a $892,500 pay-per-view bonus, in addition to a $500,000 locker room bonus check presented to Couture following the fight. It is believed that Couture has never earned more than $1.75 million for a fight.

Based on the bout agreement, in order for Kevin Iole’s reported figure of $3.25-3.75 million per fight, to be correct, Couture’s fights would need to draw 1,222,500 pay-per-view buys. The 520,000 buys for the Sylvia fight represents the largest buy rate Couture has ever drawn. Yahoo! Sports stands by its story and has noted that the bout agreement was unsigned.

While not confirmed, it is believed that this bonus structure is consistent across the board for the top fighters who receive pay-per-view bonuses.

If we assume that Jones has the same contract and that UFC 182 had 850k buys we get the following earnings for Jones:

75k * $1 =$75k
125k * $1.5 =$187.5k
30k * $2 =$60k
520k * $3 =$1,520k
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Total =$1,842,500 in PPV earnings plus $500k fight purse for a total earnings of $2.343 million. And that is a conservative estimate because Jones probably has a much better contract than Couture.