In the post-event press conference, Dana White announced the attendance, gate and bonuses for UFC on Fox 16 on Saturday night from Chicago, Illinois.
White announced attendance at 11,663 with a gate of $1.2 million for the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Notably, UFC on Fox 2 in January 2012 drew 16,963 for a gate of $1.271 million and UFC on Fox 10 in January 2014 drew 10,795 for a gate of $863,655.
The bonuses of $50,000 each went to Edson Barboza, Paul Felder, T.J. Dillashaw and Tom Lawlor. Barboza and Felder drew Fight of the Night and Dillashaw and Lawler scored the Performance of the Night bonuses. White indicated that he also liked the Ben Saunders-Kenny Robertson fight and was impressed with James Krause’s win tonight. It sounded that those three fighters may also receive additional compensation.
Payout Perspective:
The event was not a sellout as the ‘get in’ price as of noon Saturday was $59 according to StubHub. The United Center could house 20,000 plus so it was far from selling out. The fights were very good tonight which culminated in Dillashaw’s domination of Renan Barao. Dillashaw earned a bonus and the lighter weight divisions are on a roll this month.
Dana Dana stop counting comps and paid sponsor tickets as sells. I wonder how many tickets Reebok gets now?
Real gate = 1067 truly paid for
Another great show and very good gate! Boxing wishes they could do numbers like this consistently or put on exciting fights like this as well. Unfortunately for them, their biggest PBC shows can’t even draw a million dollar gate. Very few boxing gates hit 1m, yet the UFC does it routinely.
Sampson accepts the word of boxing promoters, but denies the word of state athletic commissions. Hahaha.
Ratings were solid for last night in the overnights. Easily winning the key demo without even counting the headliner which will make ratings go way up.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/7/26/9041471/ufc-on-fox-16-does-2-29-million-viewers-in-the-overnights