Lance Pugmire of the LA Times reports that the early returns on the GGG-Jacobs PPV is between 130,000 to 150,000 buys although the GGG camp says that the final tally will be higher than 150,000. Pugmire cites an industry source for the report as HBO has yet to provide an official tally. Notably, the last […]
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Sonnen-Silva headline Bellator’s second PPV
Bellator returns to PPV with Chael Sonnen-Wanderlei Silva as the main event. The event will take place on June 24th at Madison Square Garden in New York. It will be the second PPV in the company’s history. In May 2014, Bellator 120 featured Rampage Jackson-King Mo and Michael Chandler-Eddie Alvarez. The event drew 100,000 PPV […]
UFC sets PPV record in 2016, but where are big cards in 2017?
In the latest Wrestling Observer (subscription recommended), the PPV buys have been recalibrated to 1,009,000 buys. The original estimate had the July event at 1.1 to 1.2M PPV buys. Despite the downgrade of PPV buys for the July event, the UFC set a PPV record with 5 events in a calendar year going over 1 […]
UFC 207 early PPV estimates: 1.1M buys
UFC 207 looks to have done well on PPV as initial estimates by The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer have the PPV at 1.1 million buys. UFC 207 featured the return of Ronda Rousey as she faced Amanda Nunes for the UFC bantamweight title. Nunes stopped Rousey in the first round. The 1.1 million PPV buys […]
UFC 207 Prelims on FS1 draws 1.511M viewers
The UFC 207 Prelims on Friday night drew 1.511 million viewers on FS1 per Sports TV Ratings. It was the fourth highest PPV of 2016 and the sixth prelims telecast to go over 1 million viewers. In addition, it drew 813,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 category. The featured fight on the prelims was Johny […]