VM: I am positive that Fedor made more from Affliction than $300,000. maybe they paid him money up front as a signing bonus to do all the promotions that he had to do, but I am 100% positive that Affliction forked over a million plus to Fedor for taking part in the event.

NO DOUBT IN MY MIND That FEDOR made at the very least, 1.5 million!

Perhaps Trump himself is giving Fedor the additional $1+ million.

somebody paid him, because there is no way that he went back to Russia with less than 1.5 million, courtesy of Affliction!

VM: u were right, he is just “Fedorable” LMAO!!!!

I absolutely loved that sign in the crowd and I will be using that word in the future quite often.

When Fedor cracked that one little smile in the ring afer his win, he just looked so Fedorable.

Makes me just want to pinch his Fedorable cheeks! He smiles like the doughboy….I dont understand how Fedor isnt everyone’s favorite! the guys is just pure class and skills!

I didnt know it came from a sign. I thought u made it up when u text me. I guess I missed the sign during the broadcast because I had 2 tv’s hooked up in the saqme room and I was trying to watch both events simultaneously.

LOL. I wish I came up with it.

wow now we know why tim lost so quickly, hes done, id be very suprised to see him fight again… cashed in!

Since he is fighting on the next Adrenaline MMA show on 9/6 I dont think he cashed in just yet. Supposively he is making around 500K for that show.

what are your sources for this infomation?

Im pretty sure Fedor didn’t make that, wasn’t he suppose to get 1.5 Million? These figures are wrong surely.

\If Tim took a dive, then so did Rampage, GSP (when Serra beat him), Hughes when Alves beat him….This BS dive talk from you guys is worth than accusing fighters of using Roids for no reason! How could u guys consider your selves Fan’s of the sport and try to cheapen it like that?

U should be Banned from this site for saying such ridiculous things!

You are macho bullshit

Fedor was paid over a million dollars! i AM POSITIVE ABOUT THAT!

He didn’t take a dive. He got his ass BEAT by the most dominant fighter. IF Timmy won the fight in 30 seconds I’d say Fedor may have taken a dive. But Fedor is more than capable of beating anyone in 30 seconds.

TRUE THAT!

JV, nothing is impossible, especially in the sports world, but I’m a stubborn rat-bastard, and I simply don’t see it. It’s still my opinion that no matter what someone could have slipped Tim under the table, he would have made FAR more if he became the ONE AND ONLY guy to actually beat Fedor. And who’s to say Affliction will get Fedor vs Randy? There is no way Dana will take his teeth out of that one, and if he wants, he can tie Randy up in court for ages. The only thing I might take a half-@ss guess at: 1-Randy comes back and fights BIG Nog first then goes for Fedor. Doubt that one, cuz Dana won’t risk his HW belt going outside the UFC. 2- Maybe Dana allows Fedor vs Randy (removing his hold on the belt and leaving it to Nog), and UFC and Affliction split the money. What do you think of that one? It seems to solve a lot of problems. The UFC keeps its belt (even if Fedor beat Nog twice), Randy and Fedor get to see who is better (not much doubt on my part as to who that might be) and both organizations make much dinero and gain TONS OF EXPOSURE!

It won’t happen. The UFC doesn’t want anyone else to get money or exposure.

JV

Its funny how everyone calls me and you conspiracy theorist because we even hinted that Tim Sylvia took a ‘dive’.

Thorozine comes to mind immediately. Hey bro..please explain to me how Tim Sylvia was paid half a million more than Fedor for that performance.

If there wasn’t a straight bribe to take a dive, that huge guaranteed paycheck didn’t give Tim Sylvia much motivation to fight hard.

I was under the impression that Fedor was getting a percentage of the live gate and ppv sales. I could be wrong but i thought that was the deal.

Supposively Fedor’s total pay is going to be around 1.5mil according to payout. He has a promotional contract with Affliction in addition to his fight contract.

And JV, Chuck doesnt make 500K a fight. That doesnt factor the PPV bonus he gets that is rumored to be higher then his base salary. Chuck clears a 1mil easy. Dana even said as much during the Randy fiasco when he went out of his way to reveal how much certain fighters are paid.

It is strange guys that you don’t understand that Fedor would come for free just to prove to American audience that he is the best. But to find a worthy opponent who knew that he would be destroyed (and his carrier) in a minute (There is nothing in UFC which can withstand Fedor.) this was the problem. By the way now I would be surprise if Fedor would not cash in. Now he become if not a legend then a pain in ass in States and a lot of money should be there to see that somebody would beat him. It should be a line waiting. But maybe I am wrong and UFC guys would just talk it out with their “fixed” garbage and pretend that among theirs bunch of potato bags there is a better fighter than Fedor, or how they would put “the world champion” as usual.

This talk about Tim taking a dive is based on the assumption that Fedor needed Tim to dive, which I don’t think is the case. I don’t understand why Fedor took the fight for 300K when Dana would have paid him nearly 10X that for the same fight in UFC.

TabascoSAUCE, please explain to me how they paid Tim that much, and then RELEASED the information. Jesus guys, it’s not like Affliction is hiding it or anything!

Conspiracy theories in Tim vs Fedor= complete and utter bullsh*t!

Chef…I posted something similar in another thread.

I’ve followed Fedor since his Pride days…I’ve gotten to watch bootleg Samba tournaments he’s been..I’ve seen how good Fedor is.

I’ve also lived in an era where many baseball players have been found using steriods, NBA officials are being paid off to shave points, and boxing refs were on the payroll to fix fights.

Would it surprise you the least bit if 3-4 months down the road, Tim was found to have throw the fight? I think if Fedor fought Tim 10 times, Fedor would win all ten of them. But, the UFC maybe the most ‘reliable’ MMA org of all the competition. Crocop vs Gonzaga probably lost the UFC millions. Yet, they are still around.

Affliction can’t afford Fedor to lose. That’s a scary thing don’t you think? If the same fight happened in the UFC, and Fedor destroyed Tim in the same fashion (which would probably happen), I’d be a more convinced MMA fan.

That’s the enjoyment of these forums…we have the right to our opinions. Cheers!

Good post TabascoSAUCE. to say complete and utter bullsh!t is wrong chefdaddy. EliteXC is an established Org. and everybody called it fixed, why? cause they were 27mil in the whole and Kimbo was their life line. Affliction knew they were going to loose money on this first show, so why is it hard to believe that the fix was on??? Now after seeing Fedor destroy a former UFC champ, they will do good in their next show. Have you guys heared the bull Tim said at the post fight press conference? The whole show those weak announcers kept suck!ng Fedor nuts. Then it was for a belt that neither deserved to be fighting for. You guys dont want to hear it cause its Fedor.

JV and Tabascosauce-

Based on Fedor’s dominant history your conspiracy talk is baseless and w/o merit.

Tim has always been an inconsistent HW that has a mixed win/loss record against HW’s with less talent than Fedor.

Why is it surprising that Fedor crushed him?

U dont throw a fight by letting Fedor Blast you in the face like 5 times (did you conspirociy idiots see how hard those punches were thrown)? There have been no DIVES in MMA! If there has ever been a dive in MMa, it would have been Bo Catrell loosing to Kimbo adter kimbo punched him on the shoulder!

U dont take a dive in a match involving 2 top 5 fighters. Its just stupid, and If I was moderating this site, I wouldn’t even let you cheapen the sport by typing such BS!!!

EXACTLY. I really can’t believe what I’m reading.

STOP HATING. Fedor is simply that good and the two of you are just realizing it because you never seen him fight before. Fedor will do that to ANYONE.

I didn’t hear a SINGLE person accusing that fight of being fixed up until the moment this post was made. If the fighst was fixed, you would have noticed something was up during the fight (ala Kimbo/Cantrell).

Tobasco and JV, I always enjoy your posts, but we must simply agree to disagree on this one! lol

I do not enjoy posts that discredit the sport I love! Why the hell would Fedor need his opponents to take a dive?

Also, Tim was said to be making $800,000 from the start!

If anyone took a dive it was Irvin!!! He got cracked in his cheekbone….I dont ever remember someone being knocked out by getting blasted on their cheek!

Dana mentioned that his manager wanted a gym built in Russia as well. His words not mine.

I seem to recall that yes, those were the reported(rumored?) reasons for Fedor not taking the UFC contract, that the UFC was only interested in signing him and not half of his camp, and he wanted to still be able to fight outside of the UFC while under contract. Though I do also seem to recall Dana stating somewhere that Fedor’s management kept trying to highball him with the numbers Fedor allegedly wanted for the contract and were trying to sell him on business prospects like building a stadium in Russia.

Now that Lorenzo Fertitta is eclipsing Dana and focusing on international expansion, the UFC may be more open to Fedor’s requests.

I heard that Fedor wanted to be able to compete in Sambo tourneys in Russia (which the UFC doesn’t allow), he wanted 8 members of his red devel squad signed to UFC contracts (his brother included, and he wanted a gym built in Russia.

Cheffdaddy: u r rirght! those are the reason’s that Fedor didnt sign in the UFC… .dana is an idiot! He should have offered Fedor a contract only exclusive in the USA. Meaning Fedor can go fight in Japan whenever he wants! Seriously, why should Dana care if Fedor fights in Japan while he is in the UFC? Fedor will never loose! So its not like Dana has to worry about 1 of his champions loosing in another organization! Fedor cant loose, he doesnt even know how to loose!

If anything,. Fedor being a UFC fighter and fighting outside of the country would only increease the UFC’s fan base, because Japanese Fans, who dont follow the UFC, would all have to start paying attention to the UFC to see Fedor

If the UFC had Fedor vs. Nogueira 3 in Japan, they can sell oput a stradium with over 140,000 people, something they can only dream of doing in America

I would get in the ring with Fedor for $22,222 per second. It would take him at least four seconds to corner me and probably another 20 or 30 seconds to stop laughing after I peed myself.