MMA Junkie reports the attendance and bonuses for Saturday’s UFC Fight Pass only event from Berlin, Germany.
Joanna Jedrzejcyzk and Jessica Penne earned Fight of the Night honors while Mairbek Taisumov and Arnold Allen drew Performance of the Night bonuses. Each earned $50,000.
UFC Fight Night 69 drew 8,155 fans from the O2 World Arena in Berlin. The attendance figure was announced at the post-fight press conference although no gate was announced.
The last time the UFC visited the O2 in Berlin it drew 8,000 fans for UFC Fight Night 41 in May 2014. At that time, the UFC indicated it was pleased with the turnout. Notably, the O2 World houses between 14,000-17,000 for a variety of concerts and sporting events.
Payout Perspective:
This should be the last time that Joanna should be on a “Fight Pass Only” event. It was a dominant performance and she should be on a wider stage next time out. As for attendance, the improvement since last year should be a positive considering much of the card had no known fighters and was headlined by a women’s fight without the name “Rousey” as one of the fighters.
Wow! Joanna can sure strike! She is a beast. No one in that weight class will touch her. Too bad it didnt do a better gate
Low profile card. No one expected this to do anything.
But on the other hand PBC just shit it up again. Their star Adrien Broner, aka’s Haymon’s next Mayweather…..LOST to a guy who he was supposed to beat. Not the first time it happened to him though. Broner’s ppv future….0 buys!! HAHAHA!!!
Broner 0 buys?
Still makes more than every current UFC champion.
Broner couldve beaten Porter if he just wouldve threw more and stop turning it into a grappling match.
How bout Kimbo KOing a UFC Hall of Famer.
Did Kimbo ever KO a Boxing hall of famer?
Has Kimbo fought a 51 year old boxing hall of famer?
Great performance by JJ.
Good to see another event in Europe.
No, Kimbo hasn’t KO-ed a boxing hall of famer but he did beat an Olympic Gold medalist and WBO heavyweight champion
He hasnt fought a top 600 ranked HW ever in boxing.
Not even a top 1000 ranked boxer, yet he just beat a hall of famer who has been out of the game as long as he has.
He goes from boxing street fighters in Australia to KOing a UFC hall of famer on cable TV.
They should have Kimbo box Toney or better yet Toney vs Kimbo in MMA.
Kimbo wouldnt last 1 round in the boxing ring with Toney but MMA he has a shot at a takedown at least.
Still would take Toney by KO because Kimbo would stand and trade with him.
Actually D is a retard, you don’t book the 02 arena thinking its a small show. This had huge expectations and once again a shit showing in Europe and no gate numbers.
The Gayest making things up again, the big named headliners make more than Broner. He also ignores the reason why Broner makes anything at all- he is overpaid because of PBC. PBC is losing millions and the fighters are drastically overpaid. That is why the UFC will be around forever and PBC will join the ranks of the XFL, the USFL, The Bush League, etc. HAHAHA!!
I don’t even know why I bother responding to your delusional claims that literally everyone on here that isn’t insane would realize is completely crazy. That was the most pathetic fight I’ve seen in years. Ken Shamrock wouldn’t beat anyone in the top 1000 at hw right now. He hasn’t won a meaningful fight since the mid 90s literally. He is also 51. Kimbo Slice sucked in mma. He was ko’d by Seth Petruzelli and ran out of the sport where he never won a fight against anyone legit. James Toney isn’t in his 50s you autistic moron.
Toney vs Kimbo in mma? Didn’t we already see Kimbo(an amateur in mma basically) embarrass Ray Mercer? Why would Toney be any different? Also, you would take Toney because Kimbo would stand and trade with him? Why would that make any difference because according to you, that is irrelevant when dealing with a world class boxer. Oops!
Why not have Kimbo Slice box Larry Holmes while we are at it? Haha. Moron.
You are the largest retard known to man.
Saldaqueef is a mutant of epic retard proportions. You don’t have a Fight Pass only woman’s straw weight title as a headliner with a horrible no named undercard and expect big numbers. Sal is just mad PBC is in the permanent toilet.
D has no clue about mma and even less about boxing. hahaha Yea sure thats why you rent the most expensive venue in Berlin with the highest overhead. Oh and all we heard all week was a WORLD CHAMP on fight pass. Its funny she is a better striker then 99% of the men in the UFC bahahahha.
Andre Ward’s fight in Oakland…..another major financial loss for boxing. Purses ranged in the 2.5m area. This was aired on BET in a time buy deal. Poor gate numbers most likely as low profile as it was.
Also for the Broner-Porter fight, Broner made 1.35m and Porter made 1m. Total fight purses ranged around 3m. More big losses for PBC.
Funny tweet from badlefthook during the Broner-Porter fight: “If Broner is actually the future of boxing, maybe it is dying”. So true.
Sal is a non stop brain dead moron. They don’t have big fights on Fight Pass. It is used for any excess cards they have that they couldn’t get on FOX or FS1. Woman straw weights don’t draw an audience you fucking idiot and who was the biggest name on the undercard? Denis Siver? It was a bunch of amateurs you schmuck.
More bad news for PBC:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/pbc-waddell-reed-231414434.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw
Bahahah 4 k iin Comps!!!
There were probably 4k in attendance at Broner-Porter. HAHAHA!