Strikeforce: Evolution Salaries Released
Posted by Larry Csonka on 12.21.2009
Cung Le takes home $150,000…
- The California State Athletic Commission released the following disclosed payroll for the December 19th Strikeforce: Evolution event, which totaled $481,200:
* Scott Smith: $55,000 (no win bonus)
def. Cung Le via: $150,000
* Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza: $65,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Matt Linland: $50,000
* Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus) {(King Mo was fined 10 percent of his purse for an issue with his sponsor, which was splashing the cage with Rockstar Energy Drink after his win)}
def. Mike Whitehead: $30,000
- Disclaimer: The disclosed payroll does not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Also, they do not include money paid to fighters by sponsors or locker room bonuses.
From everything I've seen "King" Mo is quite a deal at only $10,000 to show. $150,000 for Cung Le though? I dunno about that.
Posted By: Bruno (Guest) on December 21, 2009 at 01:50 PM
Pretty decent, but shitty how Cung Le gets 150k in losing, and all the combined winners only get 214k total.
I understand the whole sponsors make-up a crap ton of the money they make but still, the fact is he lost yet is making nearly 3x the money the person who beat him did?
Posted By: Bozo (Guest) on December 21, 2009 at 01:55 PM
No win for Scott Smith? Yikes. They must've hated that Le lost
Posted By: Casey (Guest) on December 21, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Daisuke Nakamura: $200
Please tell me that's a typo...?
Posted By: Anon (Guest) on December 21, 2009 at 02:11 PM
and they diss brock for talking crap about bad mouthing budlite
Posted By: Guest#8320 (Guest) on December 21, 2009 at 02:27 PM
