Originally Posted by kane

Most of them don't make shit. Here is the pay rates for the last pay per view

Dominick Cruz -- $115,000 (including $20,000 win bonus and $75,000 “FOTN” bonus) def. Urijah Faber -- $107,000 (including $75,000 “FOTN” bonus)
Chris Leben -- $92,000 (including $46,000 win bonus) def. Wanderlei Silva -- $200,000
Dennis Siver -- $50,000 (including $25,000 win bonus) def. Matt Wiman -- $18,000
Tito Ortiz -- $525,000 (including $75,000 submission bonus) def. Ryan Bader -- $20,000
Carlos Condit -- $143,000 (including $34,000 win bonus and $75,000 knockout bonus) def. Dong Hyun Kim -- $41,000
Melvin Guillard -- $64,000 (including $32,000 win bonus) def. Shane Roller -- $21,000
Rafael dos Anjos -- $28,000 (including $14,000 win bonus) def. George Sotiropoulos -- $15,000
Brian Bowles -- $34,000 (including $17,000 win bonus) def. Takeya Mizugaki -- $12,000
Aaron Simpson -- $34,000 (including $17,000 win bonus) def. Brad Tavares -- $10,000
Anthony Njokuani -- $16,000 (including $8,000 win bonus) def. Andre Winner -- $14,000
Jeff Hougland -- $12,000 (including $6,000 win bonus) def. Donny Walker -- $6,000


Only a few guys make real big money the rest don't get shit.

Originally Posted by Crak_JMan

Taken from : http://www.mma-manifesto.com/ufc-fig...-salaries.html

Sometimes it doesn't pay to get punched in the face.

- If it wasn't for the UFC end of night bonuses, Carlos Condit's pockets wouldn't be so fat. Of Condit's $249000 earned in 2010, a whopping $190000 (76%) of it came from end of night bonuses. He made $85000 for participating in the Fight of the Night at UFC 115 (versus Rory MacDonald) and another $65000 for Knockout of the Night for making Dan Hardy go nightie-night at UFC 120.

Now, for the salary results. It is worth noting that these are only the reported salaries plus Fight of the Night, Knockout of the Night and Submission of the Night bonuses that have been made public. Many top performing fighters get additional bonuses paid out to them that aren't reported, plus the top guys get a cut of the pay-per-view buys for events that they headline (not to mention every fighter makes sponsorship money). Also, many athletic commissions don't report fighter's salary info, so for those we've estimated a fighter's purse based on what they have earned in their other recent fights. Fighters with some estimated purses are marked with a * in the database. This data should still be considered very close to accurate, as most fighters' purses remain rather steady from fight to fight (unless they ink a new contract in the meantime).

So, without further ado, here's the salary of each UFC fighter for 2010. To check out 2011's fighter salary info, click here.

Total
1 Georges St-Pierre * $ 900,000
2 Michael Bisping* $ 885,000
3 Brock Lesnar $ 875,000
4 Rashad Evans $ 785,000
5 Rampage Jackson* $ 750,000
6 B.J. Penn * $ 680,000
7 Matt Hughes* $ 560,000
8 Anderson Silva * $ 520,000
9 Chuck Liddell $ 500,000
10 James Toney $ 500,000
11 Randy Couture $ 500,000
12 Mirko Cro Cop* $ 460,000
13 Lyoto Machida* $ 400,000
14 Wanderlei Silva* $ 400,000
15 Cain Velasquez * $ 390,000
16 Chris Leben $ 316,000
17 Mauricio Rua $ 315,000
18 Matt Serra* $ 300,000
19 Junior dos Santos $ 260,000
20 Josh Koscheck * $ 259,000

See the complete list L http://www.mma-manifesto.com/ufc-fig...-salaries.html

UFC Top Ten Earning Fighters in 2011
(data updated to UFC 130)

1 George St-Pierre* $ 400,000
2 Jon Jones $ 355,000
3 Lyoto Machida* $ 329,000
4 Michael Bisping* $ 325,000
5 Anderson Silva $ 275,000
6 Forrest Griffin $ 275,000
7 Vitor Belfort $ 275,000
8 Diego Sanchez $ 260,000
9 Randy Couture* $ 250,000
9 Rampage Jackson $ 250,000
9 Frank Mir $ 250,000