{"id":456505,"date":"2010-03-22T01:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-229273:1"},"modified":"2010-03-22T01:38:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:38:57","slug":"ufc-on-versus-1-wrap-fighters-get-big-bonuses-next-versus-card-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456505","title":{"rendered":"UFC on Versus 1 wrap: Fighters get big bonuses, next Versus card in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dana White must’ve really enjoyed UFC’s debut card on Versus. UFC on Versus 1 did well in the Denver area drawing a crowd of 6,443 with a gate of $568,125. The UFC has grown accustomed to gates of $1.8-$3 million. Those are pay-per-view cards and the fighters are generally handed bonuses in the range of $50,000-$65,000. Free television cards like this, the bonuses have been a bit more conservative around $20,000-$25,000. Tonight, Junior Dos Santos, Jon Jones, Clay Guida and John Howard were treated like kings each receiving $50,000. Dos Santos, Jones and Howard for knockout of the night and Guida was handed a submission of the night check. That’s $200,000 or nearly 40 percent of the gate.<\/p>\n

Amazingly there was one other guy who could probably say, "what about me?" Brendan Schaub scored a devasting finish against Chase Gormley. He picked the wrong night for a big KO.<\/p>\n

Dos Santos destroyed Gabriel Gonzaga<\/a> with a left hook and finished his fellow countryman on the ground. Jones was unbelievable<\/a> in crushing Brandon Vera. The elbow was his weapon of choice. Howard pounded out Daniel Roberts<\/a> with a huge left as he stood over the downed fighter. Guida closed out Shannon Gugerty<\/a> with an arm-triangle choke.<\/p>\n

The promotion also released an interesting nugget about its deal with Versus. The UFC’s Craig Borsari confirmed an earlier mention by Versus president Jamie Davis that UFC on Versus 2 will be on Aug. 1 in Oakland. August will be busy with a PPV event tentatively slated for the final week of the month in Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dana White must’ve really enjoyed UFC’s debut card on Versus. UFC on Versus 1 did well in the Denver area drawing a crowd of 6,443 with a gate of $568,125. The UFC has grown accustomed to gates of $1.8-$3 million. Those are pay-per-view cards and the fighters are generally handed bonuses in the range of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}