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Last weekend's Ultimate Fighting Championship show will produce the smallest paycheck in years for Tito "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Ortiz, but he still gets a bigger purse than anyone else's on the publicly disclosed list.
Ortiz received $450,000 for competing at UFC 132 on Saturday in Las Vegas, according to data released Tuesday by the Nevada Athletic Commission. He was followed by fellow MMA legend Wanderlei "The Ax Murderer" Silva, who took home at least $200,000.
They topped the event's official payouts:
- Ortiz: $450,000 (no win bonus)
- Silva: $200,000
- Chris "The Crippler" Leben: $92,000 (including $46,000 win bonus)
- Carlos "The Natural Born Killer" Condit: $68,000 ($34,000 win bonus)
- Melvin "The Young Assassin" Guillard: $64,000 ($32,000 win bonus)
- Dennis Siver: $50,000 ($25,000 win bonus)
- Dong Hyun "Stun Gun" Kim: $41,000
- Dominick "The Dominator" Cruz: $40,000 ($20,000 win bonus)
- Urijah "The California Kid" Faber: $32,000
- Brian Bowles: $34,000 ($17,000 win bonus)
- Aaron "A-Train" Simpson: $34,000 ($17,000 win bonus)
- Rafael Dos Anjos: $28,000 ($14,000 win bonus)
- Shane Roller: $21,000
- Ryan "Darth" Bader: $20,000
- Matt "Handsome" Wiman: $18,000
- Anthony Njokuani: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)
- George Sotiropoulos: $15,000
- Andre Winner: $14,000
- Takeya Mizugaki: $12,000
- Jeff Hougland: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus)
- Brad Tavares: $10,000
- Donny Walker: $6,000
As always, note that the official purses do not include money from sponsors, UFC's post-fight awards or unofficial bonuses the promotion may choose to award at its own discretion.
Counting fight night awards would add $75,000 each to the payouts for Ortiz, who received Submission of the Night for his first-round guillotine choke of Bader; Condit, who got Knockout of the Night for finishing off Kim with punches on the ground after flooring him with a flying knee; as well as Cruz and Faber, who earned Fight of the Night for a main-event bout that combined speed, action and a high degree of skill, which staying competitive throughout the five-round affair.
The listings also don't include any payments that might be contractually owed to fighters who directly get cuts of pay-per-view sales, such as Randy "The Natural" Couture and Ortiz used to.
Ortiz before the event admitted to taking a large pay cut to convince UFC to give him one more chance after a five-fight unbeaten streak. Saturday's show was actually the largest officially disclosed purse he has ever received, but if his previous share of pay-per-view receipts has been reduced or eliminated, that could put a substantial dent in his real take-home pay.
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