Posted By: The Great Smartass (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:44 PM
foly huck.
Posted By: dale (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:45 PM
I was number 1 of 1,720,000
Posted By: GeeSpotter (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:48 PM
damn! At $50 a pop thats 86 Million dollars. Take away 50% for ppv providers, fighter salaries, all other expenses and they still probably profited 30 Million in 1 night for ppv buys alone. Bloody insane. Good for UFC. I recall a boxing match in the last year doing 2.5 million buys, but I am willing to bet this is a top 3 ppv buyrate of all time.
Posted By: Guest#4284 (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:50 PM
Whoa, nice one Dana
Posted By: :O (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:56 PM
god damn, good job ufc
Posted By: steve (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:58 PM
Fedor who???
Posted By: Money man (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:00 PM
As far as ppv buys goes this has to be right up there with some of Tyson's best.
Posted By: Josh (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:11 PM
Fedor who???
Posted By: Money man (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:00 PM
Uh no.
Posted By: Forrest (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:23 PM
"damn! At $50 a pop thats 86 Million dollars. Take away 50% for ppv providers, fighter salaries, all other expenses and they still probably profited 30 Million in 1 night for ppv buys alone. Bloody insane. Good for UFC. I recall a boxing match in the last year doing 2.5 million buys, but I am willing to bet this is a top 3 ppv buyrate of all time.
Posted By: Guest#4284 (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 08:50 PM"
And yet some of the fighters still make 4 figures per fight... but whatever good for Dana and the Fertitas.
Posted By: Diavo (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:23 PM
Guess that 400k they pay for Brock is a good investment. Brock is easily 60-70% of these buys.
Posted By: Berry Man Go (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:44 PM
one of the only things I've ever agreed with Josh Barnett on was this:
Q: So when people complain about fighter pay scale in MMA do you think that most of the people that make those observations don't know the full story?
JB: There's that and also they're thinking about it from a completely emotional and sort of an uneducated standpoint. I've worked behind the scenes, I've worked in promotion and booking, and as a fighter. The thing is, it's easy for someone to say "Oh, they're making money they can easily give that money to that fighter." But it's not as if they didn't pay all the money out to put the event together; pay all the money to get people to shoot it for pay-per-view; pay all the money to have all the staff to work the event for them; and then pay the money for this guy to go out and fight as well.
The thing is, most of those guys that are getting paid $3,000 didn't sell $3,000 worth of tickets or pay-per-views. And in most cases those guys are probably making more money than the UFC makes off of them -- certainly in the immediate future.
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Affliction had guys fighting for $2000/$2000 on their shows as well. It's the way of MMA. Not just the UFC.
Hitomi Akano got paid $1,450 to get smashed by the overweight and overpaid Cyborg ($39,940-win bonus included)
People who complain about fighter pay just love to bitch. 10% of the fighters in the UFC make up 100% of the PPV buys. Maybe less than 10%. I know for a fact that if I am paying for an MMA event, I'm doing it for the main event and maybe one or two Main Card fights.
The rest of the fights are just fillers. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy the filler fights, it just means that if the card was made up of filler fights I'd end up reading about it or downloading it.
The bottom guys make more than their reported pay anyways. Could they be paid more? Yes. Should they be? No/Maybe (if they earn it). They are given an undercard spot to prove they belong. The UFC is giving them a chance to become a "main card fighter" every time they fight in the cage. That's worth more than their paycheck.
I'd rather get paid $3000/$3000 to fight on the UFC undercard than fight for Dream and not get paid for months or fight for one of the defunct promotions and have it cancel an entire card leaving me with nothing but a nice physique.
Posted By: dale (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 10:28 PM
holy shit storm
Posted By: wylun (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 11:25 PM
"Fedor who???
Posted By: Money man (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:00 PM
Uh no.
Posted By: Forrest (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:23 PM"
UH, YES!
Why don't you remind me how many PPV buys gaydor's fights sold? .....I'm waiting.....THOUGHT SO!
Posted By: Guest#5503 (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 01:44 AM
So, i guess this can put to bed the notion that the UFC needs Fedor.
Brock Lesnar + UFC Hype Machine = MANY BUYS!
Posted By: Sorry M-1 (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 02:21 AM
I'd love to know where this ranks in an all time PPV buyrate.
Thank Brock Lesnar for this... guy proves to be the biggest draw in MMA/wrestling history (yes you know most the people who bought this were wrestling fans intreged).
I know Fedor/Brock looks like the most exciting fight ever... but stick Lashley/Brock on an MMA PPV it will outdraw it.
Posted By: Andrew Barbarash (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 05:47 AM
Ummm, Fedor's 3 fights in North America TOTALED just over 300,000 PPV buys. That's it.
So I agree, Fedor who?
I'd love to see him fight in the UFC. But obviously the UFC doesn't need him.
Posted By: RobertMenn (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 12:27 PM
This all trickles down to Vince McMahon-Dana is using his leftover scraps to generate BIG business. If Brock was not on the UFC 100 card, it would not have sold 1/5 of what it did. WWE RULES.
Posted By: Guest#2224 (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Top 3 PPV events of all time in sales:
De La Hoya/Mayweather: ~2.2 million
Tyson/Holyfield II: 1.9 million
UFC 100: 1.72 million
So, the only events with better sales involved 2 of the greatest fighters of all time and one involved a man eating another's ear. I'd say UFC is in rare company.
Posted By: Hejashadan (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 12:32 PM
"As far as ppv buys goes this has to be right up there with some of Tyson's best."
there was an article on this right after ufc 100.. i think this ranked 6th all time? behind mayweather v de la hoya, tyson v lewis, the tyson holyfield series, and another tyson fight
Posted By: buddha (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Fedor doesn't sell tickets for a number of reasons. The main one being that casual fans couldn't give a shit about him.
Affliction didn't market him properly, and I'll be honest, being in the UK, if I wasn't a big MMA fan and didn't look on the internet for his fights, I'd have no clue who the guy was outside of all the hype.
Personally, I don't see what the hype is for. In the last 5 years, he's had 4 fights in 2 years, the last 2, Tim Sylvia who has been on a downward spiral since the Randy fight, and Arlovski who has shown since that fight that he is on the slippery slope. Aside from that, he fought Hong Man Choi who has lost 5 of his last 8 fights and Matt Lindland who hasn't beaten a top fighter in what seems like forever.
Posted By: Gorsty (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Fedor who???
Posted By: Money man (Guest) on July 31, 2009 at 09:00 PM
Uh no.
Posted By: Forrest (Guest
that would be the fedor offered 5 mil per fight and said fuck no because he knows brock will rip off his head and shit down his neck
Posted By: Guest#7332 (Guest) on August 01, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Andrew & Hejashadan - as best I can tell this is No 4 of all time.
Floyd Mayweather and Oscar de la Hoya sold 2.15m. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield (II) drew 1.99m and Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis drew 1.95m.
Just shows Vince was right all along - Brock is "the next big thing". Just not for him - LOL.
Posted By: phils (Guest) on August 02, 2009 at 03:40 AM
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