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By Zach Arnold | July 21, 2008
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- Sherdog (Jake Rossen): UFC Fight Night & Affliction minute by minute
- The Alexandria Town Talk (LA): A shot at the top for Kalvin “Hot Boy” Hackney
- The Oklahoman: Will MMA hurt Olympic wrestling?
- The New York Post (George Willis): MMA’d to Megadeth
- The Baltimore Sun: Eating crow on the Fedor pick
- USA Today: After big win, Emelianenko has target on his back
- Sports Illustrated (Josh Gross): Fedor’s aura-building win gives credibility to new WAMMA belt
- Yahoo Sports (Dave Meltzer): Affliction could become MMA heavyweight
- Fightlinker: Sketchy ending ruins DREAM GP
- MMA Payout: Affliction PPV expectations & bar sales
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/mma/07/21/affliction.salaries/index.html
According to the CSAC, Affliction paid out $3.3 Million for the fighters salaries. And this only includes $300,000 for Fedor. And most reports have him making around $1.5 Million.
So most likely, the overall purse was closer to $5 Million.
That is a LOT of PPV buys just to cover those expenses.
Tim Sylvia was paid $800,000 to lose.
Clearly, there is no question as to the validity of the Tim Sylvia vs Fedor fight, it was totally legitimate, despite the fact that the outcome was Affliction’s wet dream best scenario.
For comparison, Arlovski got 105/65 for his final UFC fight.
Sylvia got 100/100 for his last two UFC fights, and lost the last one, so he only got the 100.
Affliction says that they were paying these guys 4 to 8 times what UFC paid them for their last fights…