Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz led the list of bonus winners for UFC 202. The event drew the 5th highest gate in Nevada.
UFC 202 drew 15,539 fans for a live gate of $7,692,010 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Below are the last 3 events prior to Saturday’s event featuring Conor McGregor.
UFC 196: 14,697 for $8.1M
UFC 194: 16,516 for $10.1M
UFC 189: 16,019 for $7.2M
In addition to the main event participants, Donald Cerrone and Anthony Johnson earned bonuses for their stoppages during the main card.
Payout Perspective:
While it was an impressive gate, tickets for the event were still available the day of the event. This could be due to the fact that the T-Mobile Arena can house 20,000 whereas the MGM Grand Garden Arena holds a little over 17,000. It still was a bigger gate than last July’ s UFC 189 and had more in attendance than UFC 196.
Eh not a good weekend for a PPV, olympics was still going on and college kids going back to school.
They also had to basically paper the event with huge ticket discounts
Conor is a cash cow
What an event, another top 5 UFC gate, had like 5 mill google searches, gonna be another million plus PPV and the event was teh best of the year.
McGregor fights are huge and for some reason his cards always live up to the hype.
189, 194, even 196 and now 202. This blew away 200’s card in terms of fights.
For UFC it actually worked out for them, if McGregor/Diaz was on 200 it would have broken the PPV record for them but by moving it they got two big cards.
They got 200 doing 1.2 mill buys, 10 mill gate, then 202 does 7.6 mill gate and should do in the 1.2-1.5 mill buy range.
As for tickets you cant expect Irish to travel and pay that kind of money 4x a year. Its just not possible. he fights too often. If he fought like a big boxer and fought once or twice then ok but he’s fought 4x in last 13 months.
4 of the top 5 UFC gates and 3 PPV doing over a mill and one PPv doing 825k.
He’s the king of combat sports right now.
I was expecting a much bigger gate. Almost the Lowest conor gate yet it was supposed to be his biggest card ever.
True, this fight was big for ufc fans, but not casuals. McTapper is all just an act with a big mouth. He was running from Nate. Once his run is over he will be headed to WWE.
Good fight, good gate, good salaries, probably good PPV numbers, and a good rubber match on the way. Overall assessment: good.
Bad fight, mediocre gate, probably underwhelming PPV numbers too.
Nate was injured, couldn’t grapple. McLoudmouth was running away from Nate the whole time, failed to finish him and still brags like he’s the best when in fact he’s just mediocre at best.
202 was a flop. The UFC is going downhill and by the end of the year it will probably have gone the way of Strikeforce and Affliction.