Affliction is clearly doing there part to help the battered economy. Yesterday MMAWeekly got the goods on fighter's pay for Affliction's second event and it is exactly what we thought it was going to be, a lot of big pay days that will hurt Affliction in the long run.

 

• Fedor Emelianenko $300,000 (no win bonus)
  
• Andre Arlovski $1,500,000 (win bonus would have been $250,000)
  
• Josh Barnett $500,000 (no win bonus)
  
• Gilbert Yvel $30,000 (win bonus would have been $9,300)
  
• Vitor Belfort $200,000 (includes $80,000 win bonus)
  
• Matt Lindland $225,000 (win bonus would have been $75,000)
  
• Renato "Babalu" Sobral $90,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus)
  
• Thierry Sokoudjou $50,000 (win bonus would have been $50,000)
  
• Paul Buentello $90,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) 
  
• Kiril Sidelnikov $10,000 (win bonus would have been $25,000)
  
• Dan Lauzon $12,000 (no win bonus) 
  
• Bobby Green $4,000 (win bonus would have been $4,000)
  
• Jay Hieron $45,000 (includes $25,000 win bonus)
  
• Jason High $10,000 (win bonus would have been $5,000)
  
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira $150,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus) def. Vladimir Matyushenko $50,000 (win bonus would have been $30,000)
  
• L.C. Davis $14,000 (includes $7,000 win bonus)
  
• Bao Quach $7,000 (win bonus would have been $6,000)
  
• Albert Rios $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
  
• Antonio Duarte $3,000 (win bonus would have been $2,000)
  
• Brett Cooper $10,000 (includes $5,000 win bonus)
  

 

Patrick Speight $2,000 (win bonus would have been $3,000) 

- Arlovksi is now the most overpaid fighter in MMA right now. Andrei is a good fighter and is incredibly young but he is simply not worth 1.5 million just to show. With Arlovski's elevator pay scale Affliction may not even be able to afford having him fight again without a new contract. 

- Fedor's pay was rumored to go over a million. If this is the case it must be from a percentage of the live gate and pay-per-view buys. 

- All tolled, Affliction spend over $3.3 million just on payroll. That is a huge operating cost. 

- Not included is the rumor that Oscar de la Hoya was paid $5 million to appear at Afflicition: Day of Reckoning. 

- Combine the rumors and Afflictions payroll is 9 million.

- Vitor Belfort, Josh Barnett, Matt Lindland are all unaffordable in the long run, if their contracts remain at their current level and there is no change in other top tier contracts in Affliction.