MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses for UFC Fight Night 86 from Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
The numbers were announced at the post-fight press conference.
Alistair Overeem, Stefan Struve, Germaine de Randamie and Gunnar Nelson earned Performance of the Night Bonuses of $50,000 each. There was no Fight of the Night bonus.
Notably, the bonuses went to the four winners of the last four bouts of the event.
In addition, attendance and gate were announced with 10,421 fans coming to the Ahoy Rotterdam to watch the UFC for the first time. The live gate was announced at $1,523,320.
The venue houses up to 15,818 at its capacity.
2016 attendance and gates from international Fight Nights:
UFC Fight Night 86, Zagreb, Croatia: 13,177, $549,000
UFC Fight Night 85, Brisbane, Australia: 9,552, $1M
UFC Fight Night 84, London, England, 16,734 $2M
Payout Perspective:
It was a good debut for the UFC in the Netherlands. The attendance and gate are on par with what we’ve seen this year. The UFC’s expansion of its footprint into other countries seems to be working. Utilizing fighters in this region with the help of hometown favorites like Overeem in the Netherlands also buoys the strategy.
Another solid outing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage
may explain why Croatia gate seems very low.
Euro land has a huge spectrum of net monthly wage averages. Who is the smartest person in the room at UFC HQ Vegas that decides if the next show is Holland, Germany, UK, Ireland etc?
So only 2/3 full of an arena.
Another decent début in another country. Great fights and victorious Dutch fighters.
The growth and expansion of the UFC continues nicely.
2/3rds more than a PBC show. Hahahaha.
Yea the growth and expansion of the UFC right….Remember when lacrosse was suppose to take over the world like 10 years ago?
No, I don’t think anyone remembers that with lacrosse, but we are seeing the gradual expansion of mma abroad, the same way boxing did.
MMA is bigger now in the US/Canada and a few other countries than boxing is and in 10 years will be bigger in most other nations as well.
Spare us the ufc being bigger in us, let me know when they break 2 mil buys or can sell out wembly.
Let me know when boxing can break 1m buys these days. Hahaha.
Lacrosse was supposed to take over the world?? Really?
Wow, the insecure boxing fans really are desperate with the weak arguments.
Meanwhile, UFC continues to grow, set to return to Germany – débuting in Hamburg. And this weekend they will be holding its first stadium event in Brazil.
Lol at comparing this to lacrosse, son.
And PBC struggles, while UFC flourishes on Fox and in its 20+ season of its reality show, TUF.
Hang in there boxing fans. Boxing ain’t dead, just ain’t what it used to be.
Germany?
Klitschko does 12M viewers in Germany.
Good job on the reality show tho. What a feat that is.
4.6M
Yes, Germany, a country in Europe that UFC is returning to, establishing its growth there. Which is the point.
What Klitschko draws there is irrelevant to that fact.
Try to keep up.
Good job on the reality show, indeed, since it’s a venture boxing tried, a few times, and failed miserably in – even with legends ODLH, Sugar Ray Leonard and Stallone.
TV exposure is important, especially after seeing what TUF did for the UFC, hence boxing’s own attempts in reality TV and PAYING to get back on with PBC – where boxing is struggling.
UFC succeeds where boxing struggles. A feat indeed.
A good night for the UFC. This is in line with their plan to increase their exposure in Europe.
Boxing had a big weekend in Manchester with some well attended and I assume viewed well viewed (on TV) fights. MMA still has some ground to make up overseas, but in the US it dominates the PPV business in a way that boxing promoters can only dream of these days.
Let’s see how this Canelo PPV does. A Canelo-GGG fight would do well. A Kovalev-Ward fight probably less so considering Ward’s style. Other than those two fights, I’m not sure what boxing can put on PPV.
Ufc brand on the decline….they need the fighters now…..they dont visit that country often and still they did not sell out tsktsktsk…..
“Germany?
Klitschko does 12M viewers in Germany.”
And zero in the US. Hahahaha.
“Good job on the reality show tho. What a feat that is.”
“The Contender” & “The Next Great Champ”
“4.6M”
“7m”
You say UFC continues to grow while boxing struggles yet boxing smokes the UFC in all the supposed places the UFC is “growing”.
You then get some clown who claims boxing wishes it could sell ppvs like the UFC, yet we’re barely 1 year from 4.6M.
The UFC doesn’t dominate ppv. PPV owns them.
UFC cant survive without ppv while boxing can.
PPV is actually starting to become an archaic model that more and more people want to get rid of.
Also having a scripted reality show is stupid. No ones givin you props for that.
And yet boxing tried, a few times, to get a reality show.
Your dismissing of it is sour grapes.
The truth hurts. MMA is more popular than boxing with the younger demographic (ESPN Fan Avidity Poll, Scarborough Sports Marketing 2013) – a bad trend for the future of boxing. TUF is a reflection of this.
UFC beats boxing overall in PPV buy rates.
UFC Rotterdam is reported as a sold out event. UFC continues débuting and returning to cities in Europe, regardless of boxing’s popularity.
Next, UFC is having a sold out event in a soccer stadium in Brazil. Good times ahead continue for MMA, also known as “the fastest growing sport in the world”.
The Weakest is really hating mma’s dominance! Hahaha.
Four, 1m+ buy ppvs coming this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if boxing got zero.
They will triple boxing this year in ppv buys/revenue.
PBC is going under. Boxing ppv is in the gutter. They have barely 1 star and he is avoiding the best boxer like the plague because he knows he will get put away quickly.
Boxing has turned into a mess. No money what so ever. The only bright spot is GGG and he can’t get a fight and doesn’t have a base because he doesn’t act like Mayweather who behaves like a 13 year old girl.
Fastest growing sport….20 years… only sanctioned in ny now hahaha
This article might fool you, the maximum capacity is only when the ground floor is used for standing spots, what they do with concerts/music. This was a sellout for the UFC, in fact, the event was sold out within 2 hours.
Source: Post fight press conference, ticketmaster and the fact I was there
Put 80,000 in Wembley, or over 100,000 at Soldier Field, or 135,000 in Mexico City than come talk. Your soccer stadiums been done before, kid.
And saying the “younger demographic” is misinformation.
When you look at ALL the demographics, boxing is more popular, and thats in the article you sorted.
No one cares which sport is popular with white teenage males. I want to know whats popular overall, and in the states and in the world, its boxing.
Way more viewership and way more money in boxing.
If not, than go ahead and will go check for check.
Have you ever told the truth about anything?
Just the fact that you stalk me on here and rant, making up lies all the time to fit into your delusional argument goes to show how nuts it must be driving you to see the success of mma and the decline of boxing. Your argument is always defenseless, but you continue to ramble on.