Derrick Lewis topped the list of fighters earning $50,000 bonuses at UFC Fight Night 86. It was the company’s first event in Croatia and the event drew over 13,000 fans.
The event taking place in Zagreb, Croatia drew 13,177 for a live gate of $549,000 U.S. dollars per the announcement in the post-fight press conference. The event took place at Arena Zagrieb. The arena maximum capacity ranges from 15,200-18,800 depending on the configuration of the sporting event or concert.
In addition to Lewis, Mairbek Taisumov, Jared Cannonier and Alejandro Perez earned $50,000 Performance of the Night Fight bonuses. There were no Fight of the Night bonuses.
The bonuses, attendance and gate were announced at the post-fight press conference.
Below is a list of this year’s international Fight Nights.
| 2/22/2016 | UFC Fight Night 84 | London, England | 16,734 | $2,000,000 |
| 2/27/2016 | UFC Fight Night 85 | Brisbane, Australia | 9,552 | $1,000,000 |
| 4/10/2016 | UFC Fight Night 86 | Zagreib, Croatia | 13,177 | $549,000 |
Payout Perspective:
It was a good turnout for a Sunday in Croatia. The event drew the second-highest attendance despite a low U.S. dollar gate. No word on the comps for the event but the amount of fans that came to the event likely means a return to the country.
Wow super low gate definitely losing money between travel, production, everything.
Probably not, this fight was on FS1, which means it was part of the FOX deal. Those rights fees are roughly 2m. Add that to the 500k here, plus a few int’l tv deals, sponsorship, etc. and they are looking at around a 3-3.5m gross. The purses were probably only slightly over 1m, production costs are split as it is was a FOX show. Minimal promotional costs because this was a relatively low profile card. They likely made money from this.
The issue you have that you don’t understand is that the boxing promotions overpay their fighters. Their purses for a show like this would be around 3m. That is the key difference. You love to point things like this out and then when someone points it out to you here, you just ignore it. Can’t have it both ways. This fight made money, the boxing cards like this do not.
UFC pays completely for the production, fees and all that. Fox covers nothing besides the deal. Thats what Ferrita claims at least.
So yea that show lost money.
The show didn’t lose money. FOX gives them over $100 million per year. They booked fight night and other fox shows under a budget. They already knew how much they would make in Croatia months in advance.
The only events Ufc have to worry about is ppv events because those events is not cover under their Fox budget.
“UFC pays completely for the production, fees and all that. Fox covers nothing besides the deal. Thats what Ferrita claims at least.”
Hahahahahaha. You just say whatever pops in your head and hope it is true. FOX absolutely splits the production costs, which is why you see FOX employees, etc on the broadcast. Again, the UFC doesn’t pay guys like Curt Meneafee a dime. Nor do they pay for any of the pre fight, etc production with the FOX crew- including Stann, Cruz, Bisping, etc.
They only pay Rogan, Goldberg, or whoever else they have doing the fight broadcast and the film crew during the fight. The pre and post fight coverage is on FOX.
Hey d, just a nugget for ya, UFC is a fight promoter/promotion, similar to a concert promoter or a promoter of another type of event, and when you are an event promoter part of the job/responsibilty is being the event’s producer also, whether the event is big or small.
When you are an event producer you incur all the “production costs” which include things like booking of/arranging of & paying for everything related the venue to have the event at (venue fee, security, permits, etc…)1, arranging for & paying for any audio, lighting & video associated costs, arranging for/booking of & paying for any talent related costs (talent fee, travel, food & lodging, etc…), don’t forget about marketing either, those are just the basics.
Fox is a broadcasting company, therefore they arrange & pay for the broadcasting costs like the equipment & personnel to make the broadcast happen, any royalties or rights related fees, which includes the money they pay UFC for the “rights” to broadcast UFC events.
That’s just a basic overview of how things work in event and/or broadcast production.
With that bein said, UFC & Fox might have a contractual agreement in regards to “who pays for what” on the cards that Fox broadcasts, but that’s between them.
^^^ legit
Chris, what you said was some what contradictory, but either way, what I stated was accurate. The FOX crew that does the prefight and post fight broadcast costs are assumed by FOX, NOT the UFC. The employees like Menafee, Stann, Cruz, Bisping, etc, paid by FOX, NOT the UFC. the film crew involved in everything with FOX in the pre and post fight, costs assumed by FOX. So to be clear, there are split production costs, the UFC does not assume all of it.
Also, promoters do not always pay for all of that- look at boxing, HBO covers all of their film production costs and the promoters don’t eat a dime of that. Now, of course HBO also has the film rights to the event, unlike FOX with the UFC, but still differs depending on the event promotion.