MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses for UFC Fight Night 81 held Sunday night from Boston.
The $50,000 bonuses went to T.J. Dillashaw, Dominick Cruz, Ed Herman and Luke Sanders. Dillashaw and Cruz won for Fight of the Night while Herman and Sanders won for their respective performances of the night.
UFC Fight Night 81 drew 12,022 for a gate of $1.3 million at the TD Garden. The gate is slightly off of last year’s UFC Fight Night 59 (13,828, $1.34M) which featured Conor McGregor. The all-time TD Garden record was UFC Fight Night 26 (Shogun-Sonnen) which drew 14,181, $1.534M gate. Notably, that show was the first live event on the debut of the FS1 network.
Payout Perspective:
A good event with the main event turning in the best fight of the night. The pacing slowed late with the main event not starting until after midnight in Boston which was almost an hour off from when it was intended to begin. Despite being the lowest at the TD Garden, the gate was not far off of last years even though over 1,000 less people attended.
good night of fights
glad to see cruz win, considering all he has been through the past 4 years, best comeback ever in the history of mma.
cruz fights real fighters, unlike that clown fedor who demands big money to fight scrubs.
Hahaha another DW( and also rogan) favorite TJ dillashaw lost.,goes to show even with kicks as rogan always points out its hard to beat elusive targets who make use of the whole octagon space…that trend would pick up,smart but would make fights boring
….wheaties marketing exec shaking theyre heads with pettis….hahaha
this comment sections makes my head hurt with Tops 3 year old style bashing
i hope pettis saved some money cause , he will be on the ufc prelims at the rate he is going.
he doesnt match up well with anyone in the top 4 either, cant see him, would like
to see him vs mcgregor that would be explosive.
what cruz did considering he fought only once in almost 5 years was impressive.
if he is fully healthy i am sure he beats dilladork easily in the rematch
Comment is mature…hahaha…what is the common denominator of dw favorites?