MMA Fighting reports that Dana White predicts Saturday’s UFC 182 to hit 750,000 PPV buys. White’s proclamation comes despite word that the event is yet to sell out as of Friday night.
It appears that White is shrugging off last year’s bad PPV year with this prediction. If UFC 182 hits 750,000 PPV buys it would be the biggest event since December 2013 when UFC 168 drew an estimated 1,025,000 PPV buys.
Last year, UFC buys drew an average of only 256,000 buys per event. It also had to cancel an event which made it the second time in history the UFC had to scrap a PPV. Notably, UFC 175 was the biggest draw (540,000 PPV buys) but no other PPV in 2014 drew over 400,000 buys.
There are an abundance of tickets in various areas on Ticketmaster as of 6:00 p.m. on Friday night on the west coast.
The MMA Fighting article provided a couple reasons for the sluggish ticket sales including three fights in Vegas in such a short time span and Phoenix having its own event last month
Payout Perspective:
We should all remember that White is a promoter. Maybe he has some information we do not have that projects the buy rate. Or, its wishful thinking. Certainly, the UFC has spent a lot of money in the promotion of this fight and are banking that the Jones-Cormier feud will propel this card. But, Jones’ PPV buy rate average hovers around 480,000 buys and it is the first time that Cormier is in the main event of a UFC PPV. It will be asking a lot for the PPV to hit 750,000 buys as the Jones-Cormier main is supported by an ok fight between Donald Cerrone and Myles Jury. If the PPV hits north of 500,000 buys it will be a testament to the promotion of the feud between Jones and Cormier and gain some momentum for the company to start 2015.
It isn’t just about the feud, it is about this being the first time the general audience going into a Jones fight thinks his opponent has a very good chance of winning.
The problem with Ticket sales imo is Jon Jones has never been promoted in Vegas. He hasn’t fought in Vegas in 5 years and that was before he was champ. Except a fight in Denver, 7 of his last 8 fights have been on the east coast or Canada. They knew he wasn’t a big mainstream draw and used him on grass roots events that typically don’t get a huge star. For this reason the ticket sales in Vegas were going to be a hard sell. But the rest of the country is interested in the rivalry and those east coast shows will pay off in PPV sales not ticket sales 3,000 miles away. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see the PPV be much more successful than the Gate.
You guys are excuse making losers
Pink Pig you’re the loser who doesn’t like UFC but visits this site more than anyone and has so much knowledge about UFC.
News flash to retards, vegas fans for almost all events ufc and boxing are from out of town!
Sampson is grumpy. She is on her period.
Saldaqueef calling someone a retard….irony.
So far D has been wrong about 99% of what he posts. So yea you are a retard. Great gate at 182. Over 6k in comps haha
Hahaha. Amusing. Everytime Sal makes a statement he is wrong. I prove him wrong with statistics and he calls me an idiot for presenting facts. Talk about a retard. Hahaha.
Yeah, it was a great gate…3.7m in revenue. Still not grasping the revenue vs attendance issue are you Sal? Well, seeing how you don’t know what taxes are and you don’t know what a corporation is, this is not surprising.
Can’t even sell out an arena anymore?
This ppv hits 400k if they’re lucky
300k!! and we will wait till march for the news that will lie and say 425K when no one gives a fuck anymore!
THE GAYEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saldaqueef turns into Nostradumbass once again. Nothing new.