Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the UFC is looking into having its big end of the year show at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas due to a scheduling conflict with a concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The intended main event for UFC 194 will be the long-awaited fight between Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo.
Kevin Iole reports that an Andrea Bocelli concert has been booked for Saturday, December 5th at the MGM Grand. UFC 194 is set for the same date. While the UFC holds events at the Mandalay Bay, the venue is smaller than the MGM and the UFC anticipates a much-bigger crowd based on expectations from this past Saturday’s UFC 189. The main event featuring McGregor set the high mark for gate for MMA fights in Nevada.
Manny Pacquiao fought twice at AT&T Stadium drawing 41,734 against Joshua Clottey in March 2010 and 40,154 for his fight against Antonio Margarito in November 2010. The Clottey gate drew $6.3 million (with 5,363 comps) and the Margarito gate was $5.4 million (with 9,717 comps)
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It’s still early to determine whether or not AT&T Stadium will actually happen. The belief is that the UFC wants attendance more than either of the Pacquiao fights. It would draw upon the McGregor and Aldo fans to travel to Dallas. My assumption is that the UFC anticipated a show in New York this December with passage of a law legalizing pro MMA in the state. As we know, that did not happen. Thus, it didn’t look into booking the MGM and Bocelli took the spot. Only my speculation. But, that gives the UFC the opportunity for another big show featuring the company’s new star. We shall we if this comes to fruition and whether Aldo can make it to December without injury.
This was reported by Kevin Iole, I wouldn’t put a lot of stock into that. It may just be a UFC ploy to see if they can get Bocelli bumped.
Lorenzo Fertitta said they were eyeing the 2nd of January at the MGM for Aldo-McGregor. That is probably more likely to happen. White already stated that fight would go down in Vegas without any hesitation.
MGM said the concert was more important and brings in more revenue.
They said they’d move the concert if Mayweather asked tho since he basically owns the MGM.
MGM Grand. The house that Floyd built.
wow D makes sense, must have missed his cool aid today.
How important is the UFC to MGM? Not that important hahahahaha….
“MGM said the concert was more important and brings in more revenue.
They said they’d move the concert if Mayweather asked tho since he basically owns the MGM.
MGM Grand. The house that Floyd built.”
You are an insane idiot. You just made that up you wack job. The Aldo-McGregor fight will bring in 10x more than Bocelli brings in and will be the biggest combat sports gate in 2016.
No one really knows what is going on behind the scenes and the MGM grand will do anything to help out the UFC, they know they are the main drawing power from here on out with everything to do with event promotions, not only annually, but on an individual fight. Gayweather’s career is over. We are seeing the passing of the torch for the mega event going from boxing to mma. MMA had been dominating overall, but always lagged for those individual super fights to boxing. Now, this is being reversed. Aldo-McGregor is going to be massive. 2m ppv buys, bigger than anything they’ve ever done and anything that boxing will put out from here on out.
By the way, Floyd did not make the MGM a big show, it was hosting major ppvs before Floyd Mayweather was even headlining fights. It was built before he even turned pro.
Eat that you tard.
Oh D u moron.
Klitschko-Wilder will be bigger than Aldo-McGregor.
Wilders never lost. Conor has.
Klitschkos last fight he lost was b4 Aldo even had his first pro fight, 2004.
Klitschkos been a champion since 2006. Aldo since 2010.
Wilder is 34-0 33KOs. McGregor is 18-2 16KOs.
Klitschko-Fury is gonna be huge in October.
Wilder fights in September.
You can’t actually believe the bullshit you spew out there, can you?
Wlad Klitschko has never sold a ppv in the US before, not one. That fight won’t even be on ppv you idiot and if it is for some stupid reason, it will lose money because no one will buy it. Maybe 200k buys tops.
Who cares when Klitschko’s last loss was? Why is that relevant here you idiot?
Yeah, Klitschko’s been a champ since ’06, and he hasn’t sold a ppv ever in the US. What’s that say? HW boxing is dead in the US.
Klitschko-Fury is not even going to be a blip on the radar in the US. No one cares about him here. His ratings are horrible in the US. Neither of his fights are going to draw anything on ppv, and they won’t be on ppv. They will be on HBO and will generate low interest. Much less than McGregor who did over 3m viewers on FS1 and just did a big ppv with a replacement opponent.
You are really delusional and then when the evidence rolls in proving how delusional you are, you just switch the channel in your brain and spout off about something else even crazier.
Ahahahahaha Stadium show?
Ahahahaha.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/7/17/8989715/mma-editorial-how-many-times-dana-white-promised-ufc-show-cowboys-stadium
How many times do ufc fanboys beleive DW? Hahahahaha…good article….good that bloodyelbow finally is calling out dw on his lies and false promises…i hope the media starts doing the same
Klitschkos, the death of the HW division.
Remember when everybody, worldwide, knew who the boxing HW champion was?
“Combo on July 17th, 2015 8:30 PM
Klitschkos, the death of the HW division.
Remember when everybody, worldwide, knew who the boxing HW champion was?”
They still do moron. Hes huge globally.
If you wanted to say America then you would have a point.
More ppl know who the HW boxing champ is than the UFC Heavyweight champ is.
And that is a fuckin fact.
Cant wait to here D say that Werdum (Dont even know if that is his name) is a bigger star than Klitschko.
“d on July 17th, 2015 2:31 PM
You can’t actually believe the bullshit you spew out there, can you?
Wlad Klitschko has never sold a ppv in the US before, not one. That fight won’t even be on ppv you idiot and if it is for some stupid reason, it will lose money because no one will buy it. Maybe 200k buys tops.
Who cares when Klitschko’s last loss was? Why is that relevant here you idiot?
Yeah, Klitschko’s been a champ since ’06, and he hasn’t sold a ppv ever in the US. What’s that say? HW boxing is dead in the US.”
You’re too hung up on ppvs.
You forget that the UFC lived, and still lives on PPV.
Boxing has never been a PPV sport but a Premium Channel sport.
HBO, Showtime, they use to broadcast 90% of all boxing matches that mattered with a few of the elite stars doing PPVs.
Its really not suppose to be like that, but it has become like that, and is why Haymon is trying to do away with that.
Boxing gets rid of PPVs. Nothing happens.
UFC gets rid of PPVS. They fall out of business.
UFC is a company not a sport.
Also Klitschko is not an American. Why does he care if he does a PPV in America when he is the “CHAMPION” of his division and no legit American prospect is even on the radar. Until now…..
What you didn’t understand is that if Aldo-McGregor can be hyped, than Klitschko can be hyped even to a further extent.
Klitschko compared to Aldo?
Klitschko is a more dominant champion, in a bigger sport, with a bigger audience, in a division that people actually watch.
Go look at Europes ratings when a Klitschko fight happens, they are huge.
Aldo isn’t even known.
Wilder compared with McGregor.
Wilder has a better record, better KO %, is an American, is a HW, has never lost.
Wilder-Klitschko would get the hype for the reason that it would be billed as the HWs have returned to America.
“They still do moron. Hes huge globally.
If you wanted to say America then you would have a point.
More ppl know who the HW boxing champ is than the UFC Heavyweight champ is.
And that is a fuckin fact.
Cant wait to here D say that Werdum (Dont even know if that is his name) is a bigger star than Klitschko.”
In the US he is irrelevant as you’ve acknowledged. Werdum has sold more ppv buys than him and is more marketable despite not being a big draw. HW boxing has been dead for years and isn’t coming back. You’ve just contradicted yourself yet again accepting the fact that he is a non draw in the US, yet before you threw out some number of lunacy he would do in ppv buys.
I don’t know why I even bother wasting time responding to you. You are completely insane. 100%. You just throw out delusional comments left and right because you are so crazy. Go back to carrying spit buckets for amateurs as the retarded adult child that you.
“Boxing gets rid of PPVs. Nothing happens.
UFC gets rid of PPVS. They fall out of business.
UFC is a company not a sport.”
Simple but powerful points, particularly pointing out what should be the obvious that boxing is a sport not a company. This point defeats so many of D’s tired trolling lines. Which is why he avoided responding to it.
Boxing gets rid of PPVs. Nothing happens.
UFC gets rid of PPVS. They fall out of business.
UFC is a company not a sport.”
Simple but powerful points, particularly pointing out what should be the obvious that boxing is a sport not a company. This point defeats so many of D’s tired trolling lines. Which is why he avoided responding to it.
I agree
Jack is a retarded idiot who isn’t aware of what the expression said in context means.
He’s just cranky that I was right about the UFC’s ppv being back to normal and the fact that he is a retarded boxing troll on a mma website.
Nice try mangina.
Sampson, of course you agree, you are equally retarded. You faggots hate the fact that you’ve been ranting about the UFC going under/having no star power/mma being dead, etc. Yet this year alone, they’ve produced at least 4m ppv buys and we are still in July. That is all with the rise in ppv prices.
Biggest star in combat sports right now is Conor McGregor. Deal with it bitches.
That’s right, Klitschko is not known in North America. Big market.
People in N.A. used to know who the HW champ was.
They don’t today.
Anyways, UFC continues to grow and hit new milestones. They just had their first event in Scotland today – and a pretty good one.
The future is looking good for The Sweeter Science.
Klitschko is a bigger star than Werdum without question.
Are you idiots trying to tell me different?
The Gayest is a raving lunatic.
Please tell us with stats and facts where the UFC is growing????!!!
Saldaqueer.
of course no answer form Dorothy cant do it and wont bahahahahahah NEXT
There’s no point in debating rationally with someone who denies indisputable facts.
Still no facts from the ufc paid girls!
That loan is still there for UFC too, d is dana trying to do damage control lol.
I always present facts, you just deny them like you deny basic math. In Sal’s world 2 + 2 =5.
The loan is there for the UFC too? Yeah, but unlike PBC, the UFC makes money. What’s even more amusing, is PBC is doomed, everyone can see it, meanwhile the UFC is just getting bigger.
Even if the UFC went under tomorrow- their name alone would be worth probably 50-100m alone, not to mention all of the revenue they have. If PBC goes under, their name is not only worthless, but their investors would lose hundreds of millions.
How is the UFC getting bigger? none of their expansions to other countries have made an impact, they’re still not in NY, their PPV’s are hurting and for pete’s sake they don’t even show it at my local buffalo wild wings anymore.
Fag Fan has some serious fetish obsession with Buffalo Wild Wings.