Chris Lytle Got Paid 14K to Bleed

If everyone has a price -- and they do -- then what's yours to step into the ring with a snarling, ripped UFC fighter ready to bend you into eighteen knots and pummel you into a state so febrile you'd actually think Family Guy was funny? For me, there's an exact number: I'd fight a UFC guy for no less than $45,000 plus medical expenses. For reference, that's about $40,000 more than the amount it would take for me to eat a slice of rotting opossum fresh from the roadside, just to give you some perspective on my pay scale for ill-advised/insane feats of human stupidity.

For Chris Lytle, that number is much, much lower. Lytle took a loss by unanimous decision from Josh Koscheck at UFC this past weekend, for which he was rewarded with exactly $14,000. However, consider that in exchange for $14K, Lytle looked like this during the fight:



Cage Potato puts it succinctly:

Underpaid: Chris Lytle, who was paid a mere $1,000 for every pint of blood he lost against Josh Koscheck.

Lytle, according to Cage Potato, was likely awarded a "locker room bonus" for his Fangoria-style performance. The sum was still likely not sufficiently compensatory, but at least Lytle can show his grandkids that picture and say, "Kids, Grandpa is not afraid to smile when he's covered in his own blood. Remember this the next time you think about messing up some of my landscaping, m'kay?"

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