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UFC 203: Payout Perspective

September 11, 2016 by Jason Cruz 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 203 from Cleveland, Ohio where CM Punk’s debut and Stipe Miocic’s title defense were the headlining events. Gall mauls CM Punk We all knew that this was going to happen. 3 pro fights in and Mickey Gall looks like a […]

UFC 202 PPV buys estimated at 1.65M

September 7, 2016 by Jason Cruz 9 Comments

MMA Fighting reports that UFC 202 is currently estimated at doing 1.65 million PPV buys. The number puts it ahead of UFC 196 in PPV buys. Prior to this year, the top PPV event for the UFC was UFC 100 which posted 1.6M buys on July 11, 2009. In the main event Brock Lesnar faced […]

The fallout from Brock Lesnar’s potential drug violation

July 18, 2016 by Jason Cruz 5 Comments

On Friday, Brock Lesnar was flagged by the United States Anti-Doping Association (USADA) of a potential violation of the UFC anti-doping policy due to an out of competition test from June 28, 2016. Although testing results of Lesnar’s “B” sample are yet to be revealed, the fallout from Lesnar’s appearance hurts the UFC and possibly […]

UFC 200 estimated over 1M PPV buys; 199 does 320K

July 16, 2016 by Jason Cruz 25 Comments

Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer reports that the buy rate for UFC 200 is estimated to be between 1.1 to 1.2 million PPV buys. In addition, there are reports that UFC 199 drew 320,000 PPV buys. UFC 200 featured Amanda Nunes and Miesha Tate. However, Brock Lesnar was the real feature of the card. […]

Can Lesnar push UFC to record PPV buy rate?

July 6, 2016 by Jason Cruz 11 Comments

At UFC 100, Brock Lesnar’s defeat of Frank Mir helped the company set a record with 1.6 million PPV buys. Can Lesnar’s fight on the UFC 200 main card help the company set a record yet again? Things have changed since July 2009 when Lesnar manhandled Frank Mir in two rounds. However, the UFC is […]