WEC 45 Salaries and Analysis

WEC 45: Cerrone vs. Ratcliff salaries are now public.

• Donald Cerrone: $24,000 ($12,000 to show, $12,000 to win)* def. Ed Ratcliff $9,000*
• Anthony Njokuani $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)* def. Chris Horodecki $12,000
• Joseph Benavidez $25,000 ($12,500 to show, $12,500 to win) def. Rani Yahya $9,000
• Scott Jorgensen $14,000 ($7,000 to show, $7,000 to win)** def. Takeya Mizugaki $8,000**
• Bart Palaszewski $10,000 ($5,000 to show, $5,000 to win) def. Anthony Pettis $3,000
• Zach Micklewright $4,000 ($2,000 to show, $2,000 to win) def. Muhsin Corbbrey $4,000
• Chad George $5,000 ($3,000 to show, $2,000 to win) def. John Hosman $3,000
• Brandon Visher $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win) def. Courtney Buck $3,000
• Brad Pickett  $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)* def. Kyle Dietz $3,000
• Erik Koch $4,000 ($2,000 to show, $2,000 to win) def. Jameel Massouh $3,000

*- All fighters received a $10,000 "Fight Night" bonus.

**- All fighters received a $5,000 "Fight Night" bonus.

Total salary for WEC 45 (including "Fight Night bonuses) was $213,000. Without "Fight Night" bonuses total salary was $163,000. Total base salary was $109,500.

Total bonus money was $103,500. Without "Fight Night" bonuses total bonus money was $53,500.

Donald Cerrone and Chris Horodecki received 11% of the base salary. Joseph Benavidez's received 11.4% of total base salary. The aforementioned fighters' pay made up 33.4% of the base salary.

Donald Cerrone received 16% of the total payroll and Joseph Benavidez received 11.7% of total salary. These two fighters pay made up 27.7% of the total salary.

SBN coverage of WEC 45: Cerrone vs. Ratcliff

After the jump WKR will try out a new feature where we rank the fighters based upon their perceived value to Zuffa (based on "to show" money). Followed by our own rankings.

Value of each fighter for Zuffa according to "to show" money.

Joseph Benavidez > Donald Cerrone/Chris Horodecki > Ed Ratcliff/Rani Yahya > Takeya Mizugaki > Scott Jorgensen > Bart Palaszewski > Anthony Njokuani/Muhsin Corbbrey > Chad George/ Brandon Visher/ Brad Pickett/Jameel Massouh/Kyle Dietz/Courtney Buck/John Hosman/Anthony Pettis > Zach Micklewright/ Erik Koch

Now this is what WKR believes the ranking should look like

Donald Cerrone > Joseph Benavidez > Anthony Njokuani > Ed Ratcliff/Rani Yahya > Scott Jorgensen > Chris Horodecki > Takeya Mizugaki > Bart Palaszewski > Muhsin Corbbrey > Chad George/ Brandon Visher/ Brad Pickett/Jameel Massouh/Kyle Dietz/Courtney Buck/John Hosman/Anthony Pettis > Zach Micklewright/ Erik Koch

SBN coverage of WEC 45: Cerrone vs. Ratcliff