UFC 199 took Inglewood, California by storm last weekend (Sat., June 4, 2016) on pay-per-view (PPV), and MMA fans were blessed with one of the most exciting events in recent memory. Of all thirteen bouts that took place Saturday night, eight of them ended with someone taking an early nap on the canvas. Title contenders emerged, rivalries
UFC 199 took Inglewood, California by storm last weekend (Sat., June 4, 2016) on pay-per-view (PPV), and MMA fans were blessed with one of the most exciting events in recent memory.
Of all thirteen bouts that took place Saturday night, eight of them ended with someone taking an early nap on the canvas. Title contenders emerged, rivalries were ended, legacies were solidified, and a new champion was crowned to the surprise of many.
Aside from the event itself, a pair of exciting developments were revealed, as a rematch between two brash rivals was made official, and a former champion’s return was shockingly unveiled.
UFC 199 has given us plenty to talk about, so let’s jump right into the seven biggest takeaways from the groundbreaking night of fights…
UFC 199 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money. Michael Bisping earned $30,000 for beating Luke Rockhold, who earned $40,000 in the main event while Dominick Cruz earned $40,000 for beating Urijah Faber, who earned $30,000 in the co-main event. UFC 199 took place on
UFC 199 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money.
Michael Bisping earned $30,000 for beating Luke Rockhold, who earned $40,000 in the main event while Dominick Cruz earned $40,000 for beating Urijah Faber, who earned $30,000 in the co-main event.
UFC 199 took place on June 4th at The Forum in Inglewood, Cali. The prelims started at 6:15 p.m. ET on UFC Fight Pass with four bouts while the other four prelims aired on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET. The main card aired on PPV at 10 p.m. ET.
The full UFC payouts include:
Michael Bisping: $30,000 def. Luke Rockhold: $40,000
Dominick Cruz: $40,000 def. Urijah Faber: $30,000
Max Holloway: $10,000 def. Ricardo Lamas: $15,000
Dan Henderson: $15,000 def. Hector Lombard: $5,000
UFC 199 Reebok Fighter Salaries: Rockhold, Cruz Top List With $40,000
UFC 199, Luke Rockhold, Dominick Cruz
With UFC 199 officially in the books, it’s time to find out how much money fighters who competed on Saturday’s fight card earned via UFC’s mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Below are the payouts that the fighters earned strictly from the UFC/Reebok outfitting deal for the fights from Inglewood, California this past Saturday, June 4, 2016.
Due to the unique nature of the Reebok sponsorship payout system, Luke Rockhold, who lost to Michael Bisping via knockout in the evening’s main event, actually earned $10,000 more than Bisping via the Reebok sponsorship salaries for UFC 199.
With that said, let’s take a look at what each fighter who competed on Saturday’s card earned from their mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals. Figures are courtesy of MMAJunkie.com.
Note: These are not the usual fighter salaries we post after each event, but instead the amount of money fighters earned strictly from the new Reebok sponsorship deal.
UFC 199 PPV Main Card:
– Michael Bisping: $30,000 def. Luke Rockhold: $40,000
– Dominick Cruz: $40,000 def. Urijah Faber: $30,000
– Max Holloway: $10,000 def. Ricardo Lamas: $15,000
– Dan Henderson: $15,000 def. Hector Lombard: $5,000
– Dustin Poirier: $15,000 def. Bobby Green: $10,000
– Sean Strickland: $5,000 def. Tom Breese: $2,500
– Luis Henrique da Silva: $2,500 def. Jonathan Wilson: $2,500
– Kevin Casey: $2,500 fought to a split draw vs. Elvis Mutapcic: $2,500
– Polo Reyes: $2,500 def. ”Maestro” Dong Hyun Kim: $2,500
Total Payout: $297,500
How do Reebok and the UFC decide how much fighters earn through the new Reebok sponsorship deal? How do they reach the figures that will be paid out to the fighters? Click ahead to page two for a full breakdown that explains what it takes to make a certain amount of money through this new, mandatory sponsorship deal between UFC and Reebok.
UFC 199 Reebok Fighter Salaries: Rockhold, Cruz Top List With $40,000
UFC 199, Luke Rockhold, Dominick Cruz
With UFC 199 officially in the books, it’s time to find out how much money fighters who competed on Saturday’s fight card earned via UFC’s mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals.
Below are the payouts that the fighters earned strictly from the UFC/Reebok outfitting deal for the fights from Inglewood, California this past Saturday, June 4, 2016.
Due to the unique nature of the Reebok sponsorship payout system, Luke Rockhold, who lost to Michael Bisping via knockout in the evening’s main event, actually earned $10,000 more than Bisping via the Reebok sponsorship salaries for UFC 199.
With that said, let’s take a look at what each fighter who competed on Saturday’s card earned from their mandatory Reebok sponsorship deals. Figures are courtesy of MMAJunkie.com.
Note: These are not the usual fighter salaries we post after each event, but instead the amount of money fighters earned strictly from the new Reebok sponsorship deal.
UFC 199 PPV Main Card:
– Michael Bisping: $30,000 def. Luke Rockhold: $40,000
– Dominick Cruz: $40,000 def. Urijah Faber: $30,000
– Max Holloway: $10,000 def. Ricardo Lamas: $15,000
– Dan Henderson: $15,000 def. Hector Lombard: $5,000
– Dustin Poirier: $15,000 def. Bobby Green: $10,000
– Sean Strickland: $5,000 def. Tom Breese: $2,500
– Luis Henrique da Silva: $2,500 def. Jonathan Wilson: $2,500
– Kevin Casey: $2,500 fought to a split draw vs. Elvis Mutapcic: $2,500
– Polo Reyes: $2,500 def. ”Maestro” Dong Hyun Kim: $2,500
Total Payout: $297,500
How do Reebok and the UFC decide how much fighters earn through the new Reebok sponsorship deal? How do they reach the figures that will be paid out to the fighters? Click ahead to page two for a full breakdown that explains what it takes to make a certain amount of money through this new, mandatory sponsorship deal between UFC and Reebok.
Something special went down in the main of last night’s (Sat., June 4, 2016) UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California. It came in the form of one of, and quite possibly the, biggest comeuppances in UFC history when left-for-the-vultures underdog Michael Bisping knocked out previously touted middleweight champion Luke Rockhold with a pair of
Something special went down in the main of last night’s (Sat., June 4, 2016) UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
It came in the form of one of, and quite possibly the, biggest comeuppances in UFC history when left-for-the-vultures underdog Michael Bisping knocked out previously touted middleweight champion Luke Rockhold with a pair of perfectly-placed left hooks and a flurry of ground shots in the first round.
Bisping was a late replacement for former champ Chris Weidman, whom Rockhold demolished to steal the belt their UFC 194 match-up, and it was clear that the champion was giving “The Count” little respect after battering and submitting him in their first fight in late 2014.
The always brash and cocksure Rockhold had even gone as far as to predict a “one-of-a-kind” knockout of Bisping, while stating that the last man “The Count” defeated, all-time great former champion Anderson Silva “isn’t on his level” and “never was” during an interview on “UFC Tonight”:
“So Bisping was winning, he was dominating the fight, I respect him, but he’s about to find out that Anderson is not on my level. He never was. And this is a completely different fight. He doesn’t know the jump that I’ve made. It’s a completely different fight.”
It was obviously a bold, lofty claim that was rather unsubstantiated considering Rockhold had yet to defend his 185-pound title while Silva had of course racked up a record-setting 10 straight title defenses in the Octagon. Regardless of if the aging Silva is currently on Rockhold’s level or not, however, the main direct parallel that can be drawn from both former champions’ careers right now is that they undoubtedly lost their titles in shockingly similar fashion.
Silva was knocked out in the second round of his first match against Weidman at UFC 162, a game-changing knockout that appeared to usher in a new era of UFC middleweights, and a fight that “The Spider” still hasn’t fully recovered from – and most likely won’t.
After Rockhold battered and bloodied Weidman to win the belt in the co-main event of December 2015’s UFC 194, many, if not most, thought he would be the UFC’s true heir apparent to the middleweight throne after he finished five straight opponents in dominant fashion.
Obviously he has a much different fighting style opposed to the flashy Silva, but overall the belief was that Rockhold would roll through Bisping and pretty much anyone else at 185 pounds, at least for the time being. Yet like Silva, Rockhold also became of victim of his own cockiness, and while it didn’t manifest in the same form of Silva’s nonstop clowning that lead to his loss against Weidman, you could indeed tell he was fighting overconfidently with his hands at his sides and his chin high up in the air against Bisping.
Like “The Spider,” Rockhold got far too sure of himself, and he paid for it in a big way at UFC 199. He’s already claimed that he’l “kill” Bisping in their seemingly inevitable third match-up, but ultimately his air of invincibility was obviously thrown to the ground and stomped on in Los Angeles last night.
What’s next for Rockhold is unknown, but there’s still little doubt that given his overbearing size and athleticism coupled with his technically refined skillset, he can rebound and once again reach the top of the UFC mountaintop. However, last night showed that Silva was indeed on Rockhold’s level quite a bit more than he thought, and it wasn’t for the reason he might have hoped for.
In this installment of the MMA News Archives, we revisit the post-fight turmoil between Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold after UFC 199. At UFC 199, Michael Bisping completed one of the biggest upsets in the promotion’s history when he defeated Luke Rockhold for the middleweight championship. Bisping entered the fight as a +525 underdog but…
In this installment of the MMA News Archives, we revisit the post-fight turmoil between Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold after UFC 199.
At UFC 199, Michael Bisping completed one of the biggest upsets in the promotion’s history when he defeated Luke Rockhold for the middleweight championship. Bisping entered the fight as a +525 underdog but shocked the world with a KO victory in the very first round.
Prior to the fight, there was a lot of trash talk between the two middleweights. You can catch some of the heat that was exchanged below.
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Although there wasn’t an initial thaw between Rockhold and Bisping, MMA News has been on top of the evolution of the relationship between the two former rivals.
However, as you will learn from the below archived article published on this day six years ago, they were a long ways apart from such a friendship immediately after UFC 199.
On This Day Six Years Ago…
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JUNE 5, 2016, 2:56 PM]
Headline: Video: Bisping, Rockhold Have To Be Separated After UFC 199 Post-Fight Press Conference
Author: Matt Boone
On late Saturday evening, well after Michael Bisping shocked the world by knocking out Luke Rockhold in the UFC 199 main event to become the new UFC Middleweight Champion, the seeds were planted for a rubber match between the two.
After a heated post-fight press conference where Bisping and Rockhold went back-and-forth with vicious verbal exchanges on multiple occasions, the two had to be physically separated right after the press conference wrapped.
Bisping and Rockhold still going at it after the post fight press conference. pic.twitter.com/Ojiiwlo9O1
In the video embedded above, you can see the footage, which shows Bisping trying to shake Rockhold’s hand, but Rockhold refusing, leading to another heated exchange that resulted in UFC officials needing to separate the two.
For detailed UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2 results, click here. To watch the entire UFC 199 post-fight press conference, click here.
The UFC middleweight division obviously got quite the shakeup when monstrous underdog Michael Bisping knocked out -1000 favorite Luke Rockhold (highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., June 4, 2016) UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California. Bisping said that he was understandably going to enjoy the belt that had taken him
The UFC middleweight division obviously got quite the shakeup when monstrous underdog Michael Bisping knocked out -1000 favorite Luke Rockhold (highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., June 4, 2016) UFC 199 from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Bisping said that he was understandably going to enjoy the belt that had taken him 10 years to finally get around his waist, but also revealed that he would perhaps ‘knock out’ a few other challengers before granting a trilogy match to Rockhold, who previously submitted him in late 2014.
Rockhold was originally supposed to face former champion Chris Weidman in a rematch of their UFC 194 bout, but a significant neck injury to Weidman opened up an opportunity for Bisping to win the biggest fight of his career. A fight against top contender Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza would obviously make sense for Bisping, but a bout with Weidman, who is hopefully targeting a return at November’s UFC 205 in his home state of New York, might be a bout that’s too big to pass up.
And as expected, Weidman had some conflicting opinions about the fight tonight. First, he apologized for everyone for supposedly ‘creating’ the ‘cocky bastard’ that Rockhold had become:
I created this cocky bastard. All my fault. Sorry to everyone who has to see this. It will be short lived.
Finally, Weidman came to his senses and congratulated Bisping in a bit of a back-handed way, adding that “The Count” would “hand him” his former title back at Madison Square Garden in November:
Mann… Congrats to Bisping. I’ll be waiting in MSG for you to hand me over that belt. Good job.
