MMA Fighting reports that Daniel Cormier is out of UFC 206 with an injury. His title fight with Anthony Johnson is off although the initial plans appear to keep Johnson on the card.
This is the second time this year that Cormier has pulled out of a fight due to an injury. Cormier is coming off of a win at UFC 200 against Anderson Silva.
UFC 206 loses its main event and will have to find another. At this point, there is a featherweight matchup between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis and a welterweight bout between Donald Cerrone and Matt Brown as the top fights on the PPV.
Payout Perspective:
Losing Cormier hurts the PPV as well as puts Johnson in a bad position. He is likely being asked to stay on the card to help the business-side of the event but will have
AKA gym strikes again, wtf are they doing training that hard with strong contact so close to the fight ??!
Should put the card on free tv
I wouldn’t go that far. This ppv was going to do 200,000 buys either way.
Agreed, this reality of making cards (in either sport for the overly butthurt) ppv without star power falls into that “ppv model” mindset, Fight Fan.
Etops, why do you think it does only 200K? And do you think most of that will be from businesses such as bars and restaurants?
Bars and restaurants are not counted on the ppv buys. Nor do streaming purchases online. Those are separate figures.
Not sure who they are going to replace DC with, but at this point, I doubt this ppv does more than 150k buys. With DC it probably would have done no more than 250k .
Too many dang PPVs too close together, This one is Dec 1O and then the next one is around new years. No joke its basically another bill to be a UFC fan when PPVs are every 3 weeks.
Yet people buy them because the shows are great. You know what they don’t buy these days FF? Boxing ppvs. Hahaha.
If that’s the case how come ufc can’t even break boxings ppv records for most sales? Lol jokes on you d, oh and save yourself the whole “ufc made more blab blah” they can’t top the record for sales
Fight Fan,
UFC makes more year on year in PPVs than does boxing. Blah blah.
Yeah they live and die by the ppv lol they have to.
Hahaha.
“save yourself the whole ufc made more”
HAHAHA!!
You answered your own question, genius.
MMA doesn’t live and die by the ppv, and boxing does weigh heavily on ppv. It is clear as day seeing how their ppv is in the gutter, which has led the sport to be at an all time low.
They cant break boxings top selling ppvs lol
You already acknowledged they did. Haha.