I don’t know what your feelings are, but I feel this was an eventful little February for the UFC. Couple of headlines made this month. Personally, I’m glad for that. It made my least favorite month just a little more tolerable. And now, as the calendar’s suckiest 28 days finally fades back into the winter […]
I don’t know what your feelings are, but I feel this was an eventful little February for the UFC. Couple of headlines made this month. Personally, I’m glad for that. It made my least favorite month just a little more tolerable. And now, as the calendar’s suckiest 28 days finally fades back into the winter […]
This weekend, the UFC will make history when it hosts the first ever women’s fight and main event in the Octagon at UFC 157. Newly-minted women’s champion Ronda Rousey defends her belt when she meets the scrappy, ultra-tough Liz Carmouche in the main attraction. Also gracing the card are light heavyweight contenders Dan Henderson and […]
This weekend, the UFC will make history when it hosts the first ever women’s fight and main event in the Octagon at UFC 157. Newly-minted women’s champion Ronda Rousey defends her belt when she meets the scrappy, ultra-tough Liz Carmouche in the main attraction. Also gracing the card are light heavyweight contenders Dan Henderson and […]
Even though almost every fight went to decision, UFC on Fuel TV 7 was still action packed from start to finish. That said, Dana White likely had little trouble picking out which fighters to award bonuses. So which fighters are taking home a bit more th…
Even though almost every fight went to decision, UFC on Fuel TV 7 was still action packed from start to finish. That said, Dana White likely had little trouble picking out which fighters to award bonuses. So which fighters are taking home a bit more than they were anticipating? Who gets something written up in […]
The UFC’s TUF 16 Finale featured some fierce Fight Night bonus competition, with no shortage of fighters tossing their hats in the ring for an award or two. While each of the Fight, Knockout and Submission of the Night accolades lacked nothing in the way of deserving candidates, each category produced but a single winner. […]
The UFC’s TUF 16 Finale featured some fierce Fight Night bonus competition, with no shortage of fighters tossing their hats in the ring for an award or two. While each of the Fight, Knockout and Submission of the Night accolades lacked nothing in the way of deserving candidates, each category produced but a single winner. […]
It can be argued that no losing fighter has ever deserved one of UFC’s famous locker-room bonus checks than Fabio Maldonado after his downright terrifying loss to Glover Teixeira at UFC 153.
If this was professional wrestling, we’d say this was the fight that got Glover “over” in the UFC. The brutal asskicking that Teixeira dished out transitioned him from MMA’s best-kept secret to a legitimate light-heavyweight contender, causing fans throughout the world to say “Huh, so that’s what a 10-7 round looks like.”
Yet Fabio Maldonado kept fighting back, almost pulling off one of the most insane comebacks in UFC history as he rocked Teixeira near the end of the first round. Maldonado kept coming back for more until the cageside doctor put an end to the fight after the second round. I’m not going to write something cheesy like “it was a moral victory for Fabio Maldonado,” but I would understand why a person would.
The beating that Fabio Maldonado took wasn’t for nothing – at least not financially. Maldonado revealed on his Facebook page that he recently received one of the UFC’s famed locker-room bonus checks, and it was worth more money than his win bonus would have been. Via MMAWeekly:
It can be argued that no losing fighter has ever deserved one of UFC’s famous locker-room bonus checks than Fabio Maldonado after his downright terrifying loss to Glover Teixeira at UFC 153.
If this was professional wrestling, we’d say this was the fight that got Glover “over” in the UFC. The brutal asskicking that Teixeira dished out transitioned him from MMA’s best-kept secret to a legitimate light-heavyweight contender, causing fans throughout the world to say “Huh, so that’s what a 10-7 round looks like.”
Yet Fabio Maldonado kept fighting back, almost pulling off one of the most insane comebacks in UFC history as he rocked Teixeira near the end of the first round. Maldonado kept coming back for more until the cageside doctor put an end to the fight after the second round. I’m not going to write something cheesy like “it was a moral victory for Fabio Maldonado,” but I would understand why a person would.
The beating that Fabio Maldonado took wasn’t for nothing – at least not financially. Maldonado revealed on his Facebook page that he recently received one of the UFC’s famed locker-room bonus checks, and it was worth more money than his win bonus would have been. Via MMAWeekly:
“Just got a check from the UFC,” he commented in Portuguese, noting it was the fourth time he received a bonus [Author Note: That makes him 4/4 for receiving bonus checks, for those of you keeping score]. “The UFC paid me more than if I had won the fight. Thanks to the Fertitta brothers, Dana White and Joe Silva.”
The money UFC fighters make is also often compared to the headline inducing paydays in the boxing world. White often explains that what people are comparing is apples to oranges, as they’re looking at the miniscule amount of boxers at the top of the heap pulling in tremendous paydays, while those at the bottom are sometimes fighting for $50 or $100 a round.
Maldonado, who fought for years in as a professional boxer (with a 22-0 record), sounds as if he agrees, at least to some degree.
“Fought boxing, never seen it happen before,” he said of the bonus he received, even in a losing effort.
Keep in mind that Fabio Maldonado made $11,000 to show at UFC 153, meaning that the bonus check he just received was almost assuredly worth more than that. That’s pretty generous, and definitely well-deserved. When a fighter is willing to take the long-term brain damage that accompanies a beating like the one Maldonado took for the sake of putting on a memorable fight, he deserves special compensation.
It was a relatively quiet month for the UFC, but stuff still happened. Anderson Silva toyed with Stephan Bonnar, Antonio Silva tightened his ham-fisted grip on contender status and several fighters established or re-established themselves as serio…
It was a relatively quiet month for the UFC, but stuff still happened. Anderson Silva toyed with Stephan Bonnar, Antonio Silva tightened his ham-fisted grip on contender status and several fighters established or re-established themselves as serious contenders in their respective divisions. Just as the UFC hands out fight bonuses after each event, we here at […]
