Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time it was one of the biggest events in company history with UFC 229 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Khabib submits Conor, brawl ensues You’ve likely read all about the post-fight brawl. Despite MMA fan that like to downplay the incident, this was not how […]
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White believes UFC 229 will do 3 million PPV buys
Dana White is touting that this Saturday’s UFC 229 is trending to 3 million PPV buys. If true, it would blow away the UFC record of 1.6 million buys. White states that the Embedded for the first episode of Khabib-Conor drew 1.7 million views within 24 hours. In comparison, he states that the first episode […]
Canelo-GGG II draws approximately 1.1M PPV buys
Canelo-GGG II on September 15th drew approximately 1.1 million PPV buys per a report by ESPN which probed multiple industry sources regarding the buy rate. The report would mean that the rematch fell short of the original fight between the two. With a suggested retail price of $84.95, the event generated at least $94 million […]
GGG-Canelo 2 will be available in movie theaters
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez are set for their rematch on September 15th and not only will you have the choice of purchasing the event in PPV, you can also attend the card at your local movie theatre. Dan Rafael of ESPN reports that the fight will be available in more than 450 movie theaters […]
UFC 226 draws near 300K PPV buys according to report
MMA Fighting reports that UFC 227 is estimated to have done 300,000 PPV buys. The event was headline by two title fights in the Flyweight and Bantamweight divisions. According to the report by Dave Meltzer, the PPV buys are in the same range as the April 7th PPV featuring Khabib Nurmagomedov and Al Iaquinta. The […]