Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at the Super Bowl Weekend card taking place at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Barao handles Faber To paraphrase Richard Sherman, “Barao is the best fighter in the game, when you put up a mediocre turtle defense like Faber, that’s […]
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Boxing set for big PPV year
Sports Business Journal (subscription required) reports that boxing is set for one of its biggest years on PPV in 2014. The question is whether fight fans will be willing to pay for all of the fights that will occur on PPV this year. Canelo Alvarez will be prominently featured this year as Showtime and Golden […]
Alvarez-Chandler III on PPV
MMA Fighting reports that Eddie Alvarez vs. Mike Chandler III will happen on PPV. In an interview with Ariel Helwani, Alvarez broke the news that he will be in the main event of Bellator’s first PPV sometime this year. In the interview, Alvarez tells Helwani that he does not know what will happen if he […]
Report: UFC 168 tops 1 million PPV buys
UFC PPV 2013 Review + Updates
Now that thirteen UFC PPV’s are in the books for 2013, we can start to analyze UFC’s performance this year in terms of their most important revenue stream, PPV purchases. Although PPV buys were estimated throughout the year, many are quietly adjusted and made more accurate throughout the year. Here is an updated list, which […]