{"id":128839,"date":"2015-02-09T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=128839"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:51:00","slug":"ufc-denies-withholding-anderson-silvas-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ufc-denies-withholding-anderson-silvas-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Denies Withholding Anderson Silva&#8217;s payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana.png\" alt=\"Dana1\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dana-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday news surfaced that the UFC had been withholding a $6 Million payment to Anderson Silva in U.S. Dollars as a result of his failed drug test from UFC 183 (See that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/report-ufc-withholding-6-million-payment-anderson-silva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This outraged many fans, who felt the UFC should also have withheld Jon Jones earnings from UFC 182, where Jones tested positive for the main metabolite in cocaine in a random pre-fight drug test leading up to the bout.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC is now speaking out in regards to the news that they are withholding Silva&#8217;s payment until an NSAC hearing on February 17th.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/02\/ufc-report-of-pay-withheld-from-anderson-silva-after-drug-test-failure-not-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>, the UFC stated: <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe financial reports made by <a href=\"http:\/\/veja.abril.com.br\/blog\/radar-on-line\/esportes\/com-doping-anderson-silva-tem-premiacao-milionaria-confiscada-pelo-ufc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veja.com<\/a> are not true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The NSAC guidelines for payment also state that the commission can only withhold a fighter&#8217;s salary, and not additional payments such as their cut of the PPV sales.  In Silva&#8217;s case, his cut of the PPV sales was roughly $5.2 million, whereas his salary for the fight was $800,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday news surfaced that the UFC had been withholding a $6 Million payment to Anderson Silva in U.S. Dollars as a result of his failed drug test from UFC 183 (See that HERE) This outraged many fans, who felt the UFC should also have withheld Jon Jones earnings from UFC 182, where Jones tested positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":128162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC Denies Withholding Anderson Silva&#039;s payment | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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