Bellator 170 salaries: Payouts range from $1,500 to Tito Ortiz's event-high $300,000

Fighters from Saturday’s Bellator 170 event earned disclosed payouts ranging from $1,500 to $300,000.

Main-event winner Tito Ortiz (19-12-1 MMA, 3-1 BMMA), who scored a submission win over Chael Sonnen (29-15-1 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) in the light-heavyweight headliner, earned $300,000 as a flat rate, and his bout agreement didn’t call for a win bonus. Sonnen earned a flay payday of $50,000.

Bellator 170 took place at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., and the main card aired on Spike following prelims on MMAjunkie.

In the co-headliner, Paul Daley (39-14-2 MMA, 5-1 BMMA) scored a flying-knee knockout win over fellow welterweight Brennan Ward (14-5 MMA, 9-5 BMMA). Both fighters earned $50,000.

The total disclosed payout for the 18-bout lineup was $766,500.

The full list of Bellator 170 disclosed payouts (via MMAFighting.com) includes:

Tito Ortiz: $300,000 (no win bonus)
def. Chael Sonnen: $50,000

Paul Daley: $50,000 (no win bonus)
def. Brennan Ward: $50,000

Hisaki Kato: $30,000 (includes no win bonus)
def. Ralek Gracie: $33,000

Emmanuel Sanchez: $40,000 (includes $20,00 win bonus)
def. Georgi Karakhanyan: $24,000

Derek Campos: $34,200 (includes $15,000 win bonus)
def. Derek Anderson: $7,800

Jacob Rosales: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Ian Butler: $1,500

Mike Segura: $3,000 (includes $1,500 win bonus)
def. Tommy Aaron: $2,000

James Barnes: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Rob Gooch: $2,000

Curtis Millender: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Johnny Cisneros: $2,000

Colleen Schneider: $6,000 (includes $3,000 win bonus)
def. Chrissie Daniels: $4,500

Henry Corrales: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus)
def. Cody Bollinger: $2,500

Guilherme Vasconcelos: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus)
def. John Mercurio: $2,000

Keith Berry: $3,000
vs. Kevin Casey: $10,000

Alex Soto: $5,400 (includes $3,000 win bonus)*
def. Demarcus Brown: $2,600

Chinzo Machida: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus)
def. Jamar Ocampo: $1,500

Jalin Turner: $3,000 (includes $1,500 win bonus)
def. Gabriel Green: $2,000

Jack May: $4,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus)
def. Dave Cryer: $2,000

Daniel Rodriguez: $3,150 (includes $1,500 win bonus)
def. Christian Gonzalez: $1,350*

* – Missed weight and fined 20 percent of purse, which went to opponent

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors. They also do not include any other “locker room” or special discretionary bonuses Bellator sometimes pays.

In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.

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