MMA Junkie reports the attendance and bonuses for UFC 180 from Mexico City. Fabricio Werdum led the bonus winners for the night.
Dana White announced attendance at 21,000 at the post-fight press conference. No official gate was announced although White indicated that it was the “highest gross in arena history.”
The $50,000 bonus winners announced at the post-fight press conference were Fabricio Werdum, Kelvin Gastelum, Henry Briones and Guido Cannetti. Werdum and Gastelum earned the performances of the night and Briones and Cannetti earned fight of the night. In addition, White stated that Ricardo Lamas would also receive a bonus for his submission victory over Dennis Bermudez.
Payout Perspective:
The top two fights on the card produced the bonus winners last night. Werdum’s knee spelled the beginning of the end for Mark Hunt and Gastelum secured a rear-naked choke over the seemingly broken Jake Ellenberger. The Briones-Cannetti fight was also an entertaining fight and Briones won with an uppercut that downed Cannetti which eventually led to a RNC.
Pure gahbage
Sam Soliman made $1.1M to lose his belt to Taylor at the age of 40. Not exactly a sporting spectacle. UFC desk jockeys eat steak and lobster while the Mexican undercard fighters eat street tacos. Boxing v MMA pay criminal. Australian Rules Football players make an average mean pay of $160K per annum. UFC is CREAM.
Pink pig did you watch the fights
Of course I did you goof! I AM DANA FUCKING WHITE!!! (snort, snort, snort)
edi, there were 4 fighters on Floyd Mayweather’s last ppv undercard that made $3,500. The least any ufc fighter is paid these days for any fight and that is factoring in that they lost is $6k.
Nice try.
Dana “ wow we sold 2100 tickets”
Pedro/Mexican promotor” si you sold the most for the most ever”
Dana” OH boy !! we need to do more shows here”
Pedro/Mexican” Si, you can do mucho, please pay us in advance for use of building for 4 shows”
Dana” Yes here you go, UFC is king in Mexico”
Pedro/Mexican” Si SI my amigo, UFC is mucho bueno!!
Dana, walks away and call idiots at Zuffa
Dana” ring ring!! Hello, I just signed a deal for 4 more shows in Mexico, its a sure thing, we sold and grossed the most ever”
Zuffa Idiot “ Sounds great, We can count that money we will make and spend it on stupid shit that we don’t need”
Dana” we can brag about this great success!! ok Bye”
Pedro/Mexican calls Mexican government official/thief/ scumbag/full of shit lier.
Pedro/Mexican” ring ring!! Si, we got another stupid yankee fuck, we told him he grossed the most this building ever did, even though their are no records that are remotely accurate, but the stupid yankee took the bait and will be back with his american dollars and we will spank him till he’s broke, DUMB FUCKING GRINGO!!
bahahahaha bahahahaha bahahahhahhaha !!~!~!!
It ended up being an exciting event, but unfortunately for the UFC the event had ALL of its momentum drained out in the Mexican mainstream media as soon as it was announced that Cain had to pull out. From then on people didn’t pay much attention to it and there was no buzz surrounding the event outside of the Mexican hardcore base. Definitely not the “historic” event that the UFC wants you to regard it as.
UFC 100 which was the first event broadcast on Mexican Network TV had way WAY more buzz surrounding it before and in the aftermath. Now that one was a historic event with unexpected record shattering numbers. Why did they stopped broadcasting the UFC on the Network? Who the hell knows…
The only way to have watched this event was if you had a satellite or cable subscription to the crappy ‘UFC Network’ channel (exclusive to Latin America). Which reminded me of ‘FuelTV’ in all of its craptastic glory.
By the way, Werdum’s Spanish is excellent w/ only a slight accent. Oh and that female translator is not a native Spanish speaker, she had a weird accent and missed quite a lot of things.
She was gross and horrible! Really UFC !!!
Ufc haters know so much about ufc. Why have so much knowlodge about ufc when you clearly hate them. cough pink pig and sal fucking losers.
Logical,
I caught a hint of an Argentine accent with Werdum but I was surprised at how well he spoke – grammatically his Spanish was perfect (taking into account use of slang). He speaks a hell of a lot better than Cain, that’s for sure.
Pink Pig is my screen name. Dana White is my face
SaldaQueef ladies and gents!