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To stop being ‘nobody,’ Dave Huckaba has to beat his boss at WSOF 4

BAD MMA News — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:15:00 +0000

It’s practically the American dream. Dave Huckaba gets to fight his boss … and get paid to do it. But that’s not what the heavyweight is focusing on when he meets the man who will give him a paycheck this Saturday at World Series of Fighting 4. Huckaba (20-5) meets WSOF President Ray Sefo (2-1) on the main card

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UFC on FOX 8′s Ed Herman on $200 paydays, sketchy hotels and now-veteran status

BAD MMA News — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:45:00 +0000

Ed Herman can share a hundred stories about his early MMA career. There was the time a delayed flight forced a mad scramble and a fight with Nick Thompson just a few hours after his plane touched down in Ohio. There were the countless roadside motels that, according to Herman, would make even the most hardscrabble traveler think, “Man, that place looks sketchy.” There was the meager $200 paycheck for his first MMA fight, though it nearly matched his weekly construction-job paycheck, so it seemed like a windfall at the time. And there’s the time his trainer’s flight got mixed up and forced him to rent a car and drive across Texas to make Herman’s fight just in time. Back then, in the early 2000s (and well before MMA’s current boom), that was the life of an up-and-coming fighter. But now, more than seven years into a UFC career that has seen plenty of highs and some hefty paychecks, Herman is thankful for his current veteran status.

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Anderson Silva is Guaranteed $600,000 to Show at UFC 162, Chris Weidman $24,000

BAD MMA News — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:14:29 +0000

Courtesy of Damon Martin and official MMAWeekly.com content partner Bleacher Report . Win, lose or draw, Anderson Silva will go home from his next fight at UFC 162 a rather happy man, at least financially. On Friday, Bleacher Report received the reported salary information for the main event and co-main event fighters for the upcoming UFC 162 card from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. According to the report, UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva will make $600,000 for his show money, and if he wins, he will pocket an additional $200,000. Silva just recently renegotiated a new 10-fight deal with the UFC that is obviously paying him substantially higher than his last contract. When Silva fought Chael Sonnen in the main event of UFC 148 in July 2012, the Brazilian took home $200,000 with no win bonus for his performance. Silva did fight one more time in 2012 at UFC 153, but the card was in Brazil and no salary information was released for that show. Now with his new fight deal in place, Silva stands to make almost a million dollars should he beat Weidman on Saturday, and he will likely take home an even larger paycheck based on pay-per-view bonuses he receives that are not disclosed publicly. As for Silva’s opponent, Weidman will pocket $24,000 for his show money at UFC 162 with a chance to win an additional $24,000 if he wins

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