Nate Diaz probably isn’t very happy with his payday for his UFC on Fox 13 bout with Rafael dos Anjos. The popular lightweight staged a holdout of nearly a year looking for a bump in salary, but didn’t get much of anything in return. Combine that with the fact that he missed weight by over four pounds and you get a $16,000 dollar salary for Diaz for the co-main event fight. Ouch.
One other interesting tidbit from the Arizona Boxing and MMA Commission (via MMA Fighting) is that all foreign fighters took a hit from the IRS beforehand:
It’s worth noting, however, that both dos Santos and Overeem, as well as all other foreign fighters on the card, forfeited a significant portion of their checks (30-percent) to the Internal Revenue Service upfront, meaning dos Santos’ documented fight night checks actually dropped from $260,000 to $182,000, while Overeem’s fell from $150,000 to $105,000, not counting expenses and pre-fight medicals, which were not included on commission records.
He’s a look at the full reported salaries:
Junior dos Santos ($130,000 + $130,000 = $260,000) def. Stipe Miocic ($30,000)
Rafael dos Anjos ($41,000 + $41,000 + $4,000* = $86,000) def. Nate Diaz ($16,000)
Alistair Overeem ($100,000 + $50,000 = $150,000) def. Stefan Struve ($40,000)
Matt Mitrione ($33,000 + $33,000 = $66,000) def. Gabriel Gonzaga ($38,000)
Joanna Jedrzejczyk ($10,000 + $10,000 = $20,000) def. Claudia Gadelha ($10,000)
John Moraga ($25,000 + $25,000 = $50,000) def. Willie Gates ($8,000)
Ben Saunders ($14,000 + $14,000 = $28,000) def. Joe Riggs ($16,000)
Drew Dober ($8,000 + $8,000 = $16,000) def. Jamie Varner ($20,000)
Ed Herman ($47,000) vs. Derek Brunson (N/A) cancelled
Bryan Barberena ($8,000 + $8,000 = $16,000) def. Joe Ellenberger ($10,000)
David Michaud ($8,000 + $8,000 = $16,000) def. Garett Whiteley ($8,000)
Henry Cejudo ($15,000 + $15,000 = $30,000) def. Dustin Kimura ($15,000)
Ian Entwistle ($8,000 + $8,000 = $16,000) def. Anthony Birchak ($8,000)
*Diaz forfeited 20-percent of his purse to dos Anjos after missing weight
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