This is the fighter salary information the UFC provided to the Ohio Athletic Commission for the event that took place on 3/1/08. These numbers are only what the UFC paid the fighters.

-UFC Middleweight Championship:

Anderson Silva: $140,000 (defeated Dan Henderson; win bonus was $70,000)

Dan Henderson: $100,000 (lost to Anderson Silva; win bonus would have been $150,000)

*** Anderson Silva won "Submission of the Night and was awarded an extra $60,000
*** Anderson Silva & Dan Henderson won "Fight of the Night" and they were both awarded $60,000 each.
*** This makes an extra $120,000 Anderson Silva made on top of his fight purse.

-Co main event

Heath Herring: $140,000 (defeated Cheick Kongo; win bonus was $70,000)

Cheick Kongo: $30,000 (lost to Heath Herring; win bonus would have been $30,000)

-Fighters on the main card

Jon Fitch: $60,000 (defeated Chris Wilson; win bonus was $30,000)

Chris Leben: $50,000 (defeated Alessio Sakara; win bonus was $25,000)

***Leben earned "Knock Out of the Night and was awarded an extra $60,000 on top of his fight purse.
***This was Leben's first fight under his new contract where previously he was getting $10,000 to show and $10,000 to win. With his new contract he gets $25,000 to show and $25,000 to win.

Yushin Okami: $28,000 (defeated Evan Tanner; win bonus was $14,000)

Evan Tanner: $25,000 (lost to Yushin Okami; win bonus would have been $25,000)

Alessio Sakara: $17,000 (lost to Chris Leben; win bonus would have been $17,000)

Chris Wilson: $12,000 (lost to Jon Fitch; win bonus would have been $12,000)

Fighters on the preliminary bouts

-Andrei Arlovski: $170,000 (defeated Jake O'Brien; win bonus was $65,000)

***This was Arlovski's last fight on his UFC contract and the UFC wants him to take a pay decrease where Arlovski wants a pay increase.

-Diego Sanchez: $60,000 (defeated David Bielkheden; win bonus was $30,000)

-Josh Koscheck: $20,000 (defeated Dustin Hazelett; win bonus was $10,000)

***This was Koscheck's last fight on his UFC deal. The UFC is confident they will resign him.

-Luigi Fioravanti: $16,000 (defeated Luke Cummo; win bonus was $8,000)

-Luke Cummo: $16,000 (lost to Luigi Fioravanti; win bonus would have been $16,000)

-Jorge Gurgel: $14,000 (defeated John Halverson; win bonus was $7,000)

-Dustin Hazelett: $12,000 (lost to Josh Koscheck; win bonus would have been $12,000)

-Jake O'Brien: $11,000 (lost to Andrei Arlovski; win bonus would have been $11,000)

-David Bielkheden: $8,000 (lost to Diego Sanchez; win bonus would have been $8,000)

-John Halverson: $3,000 (lost to Jorge Gurgel; win bonus would have been $3,000)