Dave Meltzer reports that early estimates of this past Saturday’s UFC 226 are slightly under 400,000 PPV buys. Unless this number makes a drastic rise, the numbers reflect the lack of drawing power for the heavyweight main event. Despite the fact that UFC 226 lost the Max Holloway-Brian Ortega fight, it’s hard to think that […]
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Holloway told UFC 223 trending over 1M PPV buys by White
Would UFC 223 have scored over 1 million PPV buys if Max Holloway remained in the main event against Khabib Nurmagomedov? Dana White told the Featherweight champ this prior to his removal from the main event in Brooklyn. Al Iaquinta filled in at last minute to face Khabib. The event reported between 250,000 to 310,000 […]
Report: UFC 225 drew 250,000 PPV buys factoring in TV and streaming purchases
Dave Meltzer reports that UFC 225 drew 250,000 PPV buys. The PPV buys was the subject of scrutiny when an LA Times report noted that UFC 225 drew “less than 150,000 buys” per an industry source. A UFC attorney came out to call it a “material misrepresentation” indicating it was short by “something in excess […]
Canelo-GGG set for rematch September 15th
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin are set for their rematch September 15th in Las Vegas according to the LA Times. The deal was made shortly after a self-imposed deadline made by Alvarez’s camp. GGG did not obtain a 50-50 split as he originally requested. But, he likely did better than the 42.5% of the fight […]
Report: UFC 225 draws “less than 150,000” PPV guys
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that this past Saturday’s UFC 225 drew less than 150,000 PPV buys. The event featured the anticipated title fight between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero. But Romero missed weight by .2 pounds and the 5 round fight became a non-title bout. The co-main event featured a title fight for […]