‘Anderson Silva money’ was a phrase we used a lot in 2011. It just goes to show you how silly we were to assume that the UFC’s most well publicized and admired athlete is also their highest paid athlete. In fact, there were twelve other fighters who earned more money than Anderson Silva last year. Somewhere in Van Nuys, California James Toney is pointing and laughing at the entire UFC roster in this interview with ESNEWS, claiming he earned more than any of them in his lone performance against Randy Couture; a fight where he didn’t throw a single punch, kick, or make any takedowns/submissions attempts. Toney then takes a deep breath, and resumes laughing at Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as he offers him a job for $50 per day to be a sparing partner so he doesn’t have to be a slave to the white man.
