After a UFC weigh-in which featured a brief skirmish between main eventers Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm as well as a Rousey “promo” on Holm after, search interest for the fight has trended down. UPDATED 4:31pm: As you can see from the graph, that keeps updating, searches are back up. As you can see from […]
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Report: UFC 192 draws 250,000 estimated PPV buys
UFC 192 drew a reported 250,000 PPV buys according to Dave Meltzer’s latest Wrestling Observer newsletter. The event featured Daniel Cormier defending his UFC light heavyweight championship against Alexander Gustafsson. The estimated 250,000 PPV buys is the second-lowest buy rate for 2015. The 250,000 estimated PPV buy rate is slightly better than the 205,000 PPV […]
GGG PPV draws 150K estimated PPV buys
Early estimates of the Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux PPV this past Saturday drew approximately 150,000 buys. Sports Illustrated boxing writer Chris Mannix stated that the 150,000 estimated was “in the ballpark” of the estimated buys. Fight Hype (@fighthype) reports #GolovkinLemieux generated 150K buys. I'm told final numbers aren't in, but that's in the ballpark. — Chris […]
Report: Mayweather-Berto draw 400-550K PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that the Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto PPV drew between 500-600K PPV buys according to industry sources contacted by Rafael. It is the lowest PPV output by Mayweather under his contract with Showtime. UPDATED: Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that his source says it did “roughly” 400K PPV buys. 145,000 buys […]
UFC 190 draws 900,000 PPV buys
Dave Meltzer writing for MMA Fighting reports that UFC 190 featuring Ronda Rousey and Beth Correia drew an estimated 900,000 PPV buys. The number would make it the third PPV event this year to draw 800,000 buys. UFC 189 featuring Conor McGregor vs. Chad Mendes drew 1 million buys according to UFC.com. Other estimates have […]