UFC 116 fighters salaries

The total Payroll was $923,000
Brock Lesnar: $400,000 (no win bonus)def. Shane Carwin: $40,000Chris Leben: $86,000 ($43,000 win bonus)def. Yoshihiro Akiyama: $45,000Chris Lytle: $52,000 ($26,000 win bonus)def. Matt Brown: $10,000Stephan Bonnar: $50,000 ($ win bonus)def. Krzysztof Soszynski: $10,000George Sotiropoulos: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus)def. Kurt Pellegrino: $25,000Brendan Schuab: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)def. Chris Tuchscherer: $12,000Ricardo Romero: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)def. Seth

TUF 10 contestant Mike Wessel arrested for first-degree terroristic threatening

MMA fighter and former TUF contestant was arrested Sunday Morning in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Wessel, 32, was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication, disorderly conduct and first-degree terroristic threatening after he and five other fighters allegedly caused a disturbance at a local pub.
Officer David Stout was first on the scene where he witnessed Wessel charge a crowd in front of the pub. He restrained the fighter and took him to the Craighead Country Detention Center.
On the way to the station Mike

Winner of Dos Santos/Nelson gets Title Shot

Dana White confirmed that the winner of Junior Dos Santos and Roy Nelson will get a title shot against the winner of Lesnar vs Valasquez.
Nelson burst onto the UFC scene on the Ultimate Fighter 10: Heavyweights. On the show Nelson drew huge numbers with his first fight against Kimbo Slice. Many doubted Roy but he showed them wrong as he almost finished Kimbo in the first and then TKO’d him in the second. Next Roy fought the other two top guys in the house and made quick work of both James Mcsweeney and

Lesnar vs Velasquez possible for UFC 119

Coming off of his shocking submission win over Shane Carwin this Saturday Brock Lesnar is ready to get back into the Ocatagon ASAP. At the UFC 116 press conference Lesnar stated that he was not seriously hurt in his fight and would like to face Cain Valesquez soon. Valasquez is currently on an impressive 8 fight win streak with all but one ending in TKO or KO. Cain earned the Number One Contender spot after he KO’d Antonio Nogueira back at UFC 110 but with Lesnar still sick it was not clear when or who he