Dana White announced that the WEC’s debut on PPV broke the organization’s best marks for attendance and live gate receipts when it brought Aldo vs. Faber to Sacramento, California on Saturday, April 24th. The show drew 14, 144 people to the ARCO Arena and generated a live gate of over $1 million. Payout Perspective: No […]
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UFC 112: Gate and Attendance
Dana White confirmed at the UFC 112 post-fight press conference that the attendance for Saturday’s show on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE drew 11,008 fans and produced a live gate of $3.5 million USD. The size of the gate is notable, because it eclipses UFC 85 as the largest non-North American gate in the company’s […]
Integrated Marketing: Building the Next UFC 100
UFC 100 remains the most successful event in UFC history. The show sold over 1.62 million buys in North America and did a live gate of $5.1 million in the middle of what many financial pundits described as the worst recession in twenty years. Impressive, indeed. However, since the Summer of 2009, the UFC hasn’t come […]
UFN 21: $590,685 Live Gate
John Morgan at MMAJunkie are reporting that last night’s UFN 21: Florian vs. Gomi card held in Charlotte, North Carolina drew 7700 fans to the Bojangles Coliseum for a live gate of $590,685. CHARLOTTE, N.C. – UFC Fight Night 21 wasn’t a sellout, but the night’s 7,700 attendance figure and $590,685 live gate provided the […]
UFC 111: Gate and Attendance
Dana White re-affirmed at UFC 111’s post-fight press conference that the attendance for Saturday’s show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey was over 17,000 and considered to be a sell-out. The event produced a gate of over $4 million, which would make it the UFC’s highest grossing gate event since UFC 100 last July […]