This past Saturday night at EliteXC: Unfinished Business newly crowned Heavyweight Champion Antonio Silva who was very impressive over his victory of Justin Eilers earned top dollar gaining a $200,000 base salary with Middleweight Champ Robbie Lawler coming in a distant second with $90,000 and the hometown favorite Nick Diaz coming in third with $60,000. The payroll for the event came out to a total of $533,501.
Here are the fighter salaries for the event:
Robbie Lawler ($90,000) defeated Scott Smith ($14,000)
Nick Diaz: ($60,000) defeated Thomas Denny ($8,500)
Jake Shields ($45,000) defeated Nick Thompson ($25,000)
Cristiane Cyborg ($6,000) defeated Shayna Baszler ($8,000)
Antonio Silva ($200,000) defeated Justin Eilers ($20,000)
Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante ($20,000) defeated Travis Galbraith ($5,000)
Wilson Reis ($5,000) defeated Bryan Caraway ($2,000)
Anthony Ruiz ($5,001) defeated Jeremy Freitag ($2,500)
David Douglas ($4,000) defeated Marlon Mathias ($2,500)
Carl Seumanutafa ($4,000) defeated Mike Cook ($2000)
Drew Montgomery ($3,000) defeated Brandon Tarn ($2,000)
Please note that the base salary for fighters does not include sponsorship nor does it include insurance, licenses and taxes.
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