WEC paydays and salaries for 'Condit vs Miura' from NSAC

by James Iannotti on Aug 4, 2008 4:13 PM EDT

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MMAmania.com has received the fighter payouts for WEC 35 from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) for the event held on August 3 from the "The Joint" at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

WEC Welterweight Champion Carlos "The Natural Born Killer" Condit was the bread winner on the night, taking home $44,000 for his main event title defense over Hiromitsu Miura. For Miura, despite this being the main event -- and one of the best fights of the year -- he only made $5,000 base pay.

Steve Cantwell netted $1,000 less than Brian Stann, but the new light heavyweight champ will get to take a nice shiny new belt home with him, too.

Lightweight title holder Jamie Varner took home $30,000 for his title defense over Marcus Hicks. And welterweight Brock Larson also pocketed $30,000 in just 37seconds of work.

Here are all the WEC 35 payouts:

Carlos Conidt — $44,000 ($22,000 to show, $22,000 to win)
Hiromiutsu Miura— $5,000
Condit defeated Miura via technical knockout (strikes) in round four

Steve Cantwell — $10,000 ($5,000 to show, $5,000 to win)
Brian Stann — $11,000
Steve Cantwell defeated Brian Stann via technical knockout (strikes) in round two

Jamie Varner — $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 to win)
Marcus Hicks — $8,000
Jamie Varner defeated Marcus Hicks via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Brian Bowles — $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)
Domacio Page — $6,000
Brian Bowles defeated Domacio Page via submission (guillotine) in round one

Josh Grispi — $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)
Micah Miller — $5,000
Josh Grispi defeated Micah Miller via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Brock Larson — $30,000 ($15,000 to show, $15,000 to win)
Carlo Prater — $7,000
Brock Larson defeated Carlo Prater via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Blas Avena — $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 to win)
Dave Terrel — $3,000
Blas Avena defeated Dave Terrel via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Shane Roller — $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 to win)
Todd Moore — $4,000
Shane Roller defeated Todd Moore via submission (guillotine) in round one

Mike Budnik — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Greg McIntyre — $2,000
Budnik defeated McIntyre via submission (triangle) in round three

Scott Jorgensen — $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)
Kenju Osowa — $5,000
Jorgensen defeated Osowa via unanimous decision

Keep in mind the salaries listed above do not include fight bonuses, sponsorships, percentages and other unofficial payments. It also does not include deductions for expenses such as insurance, taxes, etc.

For complete results and coverage of the WEC 35 click here and here.

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No wonder Condit is thinking about the UFC, with a pay of 22k to show & 22k to win as champ.

by JV on Aug 4, 2008 4:21 PM EDT reply actions

True, but his pay would probably go down a bit in the UFC. I don’t see him standing a chance against the likes of GSP, Penn, Alves, Fitch, etc.

Personally, I would like to see a rematch between Condit and Larson.

by naturalshadow on Aug 5, 2008 4:39 AM EDT up reply actions

Miura probably spent $5k just to get to Vegas.

by RealDrew on Aug 4, 2008 4:22 PM EDT reply actions

i hope miura gets a nice performance bonus(i believe he will and deserves it) and will probably get a fight of the night bonus. i think cantwell should get fighter of the night bonus and bowles gets submission of the night bonus.

by b.w. on Aug 4, 2008 4:31 PM EDT reply actions

its a crime to only pay Miura $5,000. Dana should be thrown inj jail for that one!

by john on Aug 4, 2008 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Have you ever seen a Minor League Baseball salary?

by Wesley on Aug 4, 2008 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions

JOHN. ask and ye shall recieve. lil nog is repoted to be fighting matyushenko at affliction 2. a worthy challenger indeed.

by b.w. on Aug 4, 2008 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions

vERY WORTHY! looks like Affliction 2 will feature a bunch of competitive fights! I amn very happy about this match up. Nog deserves to fight the best and it was a great move by Affliction to sign Vladamyir because he is one of the few top lHW’s not signed to the UFC.

Goren Rejlic was going to cut down to middleweight to face my boy, THales Leites at UFN 15 in September because Dean Lister got hurt, but now Goren also got hurt. The UFC said that tHales will still compete at UFN but they are still trying to find him an opponent!

by john on Aug 5, 2008 7:10 AM EDT up reply actions

whats everyones take on this grispi kid? 12-1 at nineteen years of age? with good submission and ko/tko wins? ill personally be keeping an eye on that kid. thoughts?

by medecineballs on Aug 4, 2008 4:43 PM EDT reply actions

Very impressive…the kid should go a long way. He is also very humble and that makes him more interesting. I would like to see him fight more name guys though.

by Kahaluu Caz!!!!!! on Aug 4, 2008 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions

I bet you he will eventually get thrown on a TUF show!

by john on Aug 4, 2008 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah thatd be interesting, of course hed have to bulk up to LW but i dont see him having any trouble there. id love to see him fight donald cerrone at LW in wec. i feel cowboy is gonna be one of the brightest future stars, it would be great to see if grispi could hang with him. Also id like to see both those guys go into the later rounds

by medecineballs on Aug 4, 2008 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions

He could be on TUF if he doesn’t violate the Clay Guida rule.

by PW on Aug 4, 2008 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions

whats the guida rule. too old or to much ufc experience/exposure.

by b.w. on Aug 4, 2008 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, he got left off on season of TUF, 5 if I’m not mistaken, because he had too much experience. Apparently, this did not apply to Mack Danzig.

by PW on Aug 5, 2008 1:16 AM EDT up reply actions

wow compared to ufc the get paid peanuts some of the barly made enough for burger king

by willy on Aug 4, 2008 5:00 PM EDT reply actions

I heard Ike Reese, a former NFL player, say that “most football players only make after taxes around 150,000 a year. How could you expect a person to live off that?” He should take a look the childrens’ allowance Dana gives these guys. How can they even afford insurance?

by Gregg on Aug 4, 2008 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Being from the greater Dallas area where Ike Reese made his bones as a special teams/nickel corner on the Cowboys Super Bowl teams, I can say that Reese is a clown’s ass. This one night I was out with some buddies and we ran into Reese while he was hanging with some kids that looked like they were about 12. Don’t ask me why, I guess he wasn’t good enough to get his butt kissed by grown folks. He had them play the ‘do you know who I am’ card on his behalf, then tried to start a fight with us. Later he drove home, dropped his little friends off before their curfew, then went up his own front lawn and into his living room.

by PW on Aug 4, 2008 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Sorry PW: I am from Philly, and I too have ran inito Ike Reese on numerous occassions and he is a real cool dude. He is very fan friendly. I stopped to say whats uph and he ended up talking to me for like a half an hour, in tOwer Records.

Now he has a sports talk show on Philly’s sports radio WIP, and he dopes a really good job!

He may have made his bones in Dallas, but He calls Philly home!

by john on Aug 5, 2008 7:13 AM EDT up reply actions

I got it wrong. It was Ike Holt here in Dallas, not Reese.

by PW on Aug 5, 2008 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions

zuffa needs to pay their fighters more money

by Ramon on Aug 4, 2008 8:48 PM EDT reply actions

Ike Reese played for the Eagles and Falcons. He never played for the Cowboys. Nonetheless he’s a horse’s arse.

by TBN on Aug 4, 2008 9:25 PM EDT reply actions

My bad. I mistook him for Isaac Holt. The above story holds true for some dillhole named Ike from the early 90s Cowboys.

by PW on Aug 5, 2008 1:18 AM EDT up reply actions

MMA fighters in general need to be paid better. The sport is still a baby. The money will hopefully come in the next couple of years. If someone like Tony Hawk can make millions riding a skateboard, there is not doubt in my mind that someone who is an actual athlete can make the same amount.

by The Killer on Aug 4, 2008 10:55 PM EDT reply actions