The UFC has canceled its January PPV originally scheduled for Anaheim on January 26th due to lack of a main event. The event was to be held on the same night as Bellator’s card in Los Angeles. When news hit of the cancellation, Bellator Scott Coker took to twitter: pic.twitter.com/2MWVAa3AFj — Scott Coker (@ScottCoker) December […]
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$39.99 new PPV price for Ortiz-Liddell 3
This Saturday’s Golden Boy promoted Tito Ortiz-Chuck Liddell 3 matchup has a new PPV price: $39.99. The lower price (originally $49.99) looks to entice casual viewers into taking time away from holiday shopping and purchasing the PPV. Of course, the fight card underneath Ortiz-Lidell leaves many wondering. Former UFC veterans Efrain Escudero and Gleison Tibau […]
White whittles down distributors draw on PPVs
This week’s Sports Business Journal features several articles on combat sports. An interesting article on Dana White reveals that he’s negotiated down the PPV cut that many distributors receive for its PPVs. According to the article, many outside distributors such as Comcast, Cox or DirecTV receive 50 percent of the PPV revenue from the UFC. […]
UFC 230: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time around we take a look at UFC 230 at Madison Square Garden where Daniel Cormier took care of Derrick Lewis. Double Champ takes care of Derrick Lewis Daniel Cormier made easy work of Derrick Lewis using wrestling to negate Lewis’ KO power. DC easily tapped out […]
UFC 229 draws 2.4 million PPV buys
UFC 229 has delivered the best PPV buy rate in company history according to multiple reports including The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer. The event featuring the return of Conor McGregor and arguably the best lightweight in the world, Khabib Nurmogomedov drew 2.4 million buys. Broken down, it drew 1.9 million PPV buys from traditional satellite […]