Not good, my economic professor once told me that a company needs to be profitable to stay around.
I'm guessing that they did less in PPV revenue then a typical UFC event- due to lack of marketing and UFC fight night cutting into their potential buys.
Maybe Dana White was right.
With that being said Dana needs to get the Colture/Fedor fight signed- even if its a one fight deal.
Opinions?
Posted By: The Spook (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 01:50 PM
I hope they sold enough t-shirts at the show to break even.
Posted By: bigal6a (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Who is this Colture fella you speak of?
Posted By: Champ (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 04:02 PM
I once read that companies split the revenue with the ppv providers right at 50/50. Going by that theory Affliction needed nearly 62,000 buys just to breal even on the fighters' salaries. I honestly doubt they did that much seeing as how Pride was only doing around that and they were an established company.
Then you have to take into consideration how much they rented the venue for, how much they paid for fighters' travel, and how much people behind the scenes took home.
This doesn't look good at all, and I'd agree that Dana was right after all.
Posted By: sanderz1 (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 04:28 PM
I thought Donald Trump was supposed to be smart with money?
Posted By: Nick (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 04:47 PM
"Not good, my economic professor once told me that a company needs to be profitable to stay around."
Trying to make money off just the crowd isn't going to do that. The PPV and merchandise sales should have taken it over the top pretty handily though.
Even if they picked up only 200,000 buys - and that's at the extremely low end, that's what....$8,000,000?
Posted By: Rod Oracheski (Registered) on July 22, 2008 at 06:15 PM
Man if only they didn't pay the Huge payrolls of 36 second Sylvia and maybe not as much for the pitbull then they might have broken even. There is a reason UFC doesn't cards on with this much main event talent. It just doesn't pay
Posted By: Ed (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 07:18 PM
I hope they made enough to stay around. I like this company so far. Because they have put on only one show and I really liked it.
They gave us Fedor vs someone who wasn't a can. Tremendous. 36 seconds of tremendous.
Posted By: BK (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 07:26 PM
well if you add up all the money the UFC guy got and the money that the t-shirt company fighters got it is estoundeing how much the t-shirt company owners over paid. The UFC pay outs added up to $751,000 and that card was better than the aflliction card. looks like the t-shirts prices are going to go up.
Posted By: ufc dude (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 07:34 PM
you idiots forgot about sponsors and Donald and his backers and PPV buys !
The Affliction Clothing that sold at the event was in the 1000's and their shirts are 45 to 65 dollars a pop !!
Posted By: WTF (Guest) on July 22, 2008 at 07:36 PM
Hey WTF, even if they sold a thousand 65 dollar shirts its only 65,000 dollars...
Even if they sold 5000 shirts at 65 its only 325,000$
They still are short over a million, and thats before they pay off the employees who set up the ring, the medics, the judges, the lighting crew, the ad people and the owners take cuts...
They are in the hole and they gave us the best they had...what do they follow it up with?
Fedor vs. Andre???
They are operating at a loss and nobody is going to back a program like that.
Posted By: The Spook (Guest) on July 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM
uh dude, they did not get 200,000 buys. that is not the low end of the soectrum.
Posted By: guest guest (Guest) on July 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Thats only the take at the door. what about the pay per view sales, and all the Affliction clothes, etc.?
Posted By: Guest#4651 (Guest) on July 23, 2008 at 09:30 AM
most companies lose money for the first 2 years of operating UFC was millions in the hole till a few years ago. If your a new company and making money your doing somthing wrong and will be out of business soon. Affliction show wasnt bad they didnt advertise and made close to half their money back just on the gate. Lets see how the PPV does. Now they need to invest in some marketing and see what happens. Main thing is to keep people interested and gain new a audience some how. So far I like affliction and its good to see some competion. Good luck guys it a long road ahead.
Posted By: Guest#3179 (Guest) on July 23, 2008 at 02:02 PM
This company is doomed unless they actually get Couture signed to fight against Fedor. Even then, they still have to pay them both a shitton of money...what else do they have to offer? Fedor vs Barnett? Sylvia vs Andre? Seriously. Nice try.
Posted By: STG (Guest) on July 23, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Those fighter figures are bull too. You're telling me that after all the hassle signing Fedor and his reported $1M wage demands that he agrees to fight Timmay for $300,000? And with Timmay getting $800,000? Bull. Fedor had a big fat signing bonus or huge cut of the PPV money, which wouldn't be that much. Something stinks about those pay amounts.
Posted By: Dr Phil (Guest) on July 24, 2008 at 04:26 AM
