Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective where we take a look at the return of Manny Pacquiao as he took on Brandon Rios at the Venetian Hotel on the island of Macau off the coast of China. Pacquiao outclasses Rios As many had expected, the speed of Manny Pacquiao was too much for […]
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UFC 167: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. In this edition, we take a look at the big 20th Anniversary Show of UFC 167 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bruised and battered but GSP wins split decision If you disagree with the decision review the 1st round because it appears that is the […]
Bradley-Marquez reaches 375K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez fight taking place on PPV on Saturday, October 12th received 375,000 PPV buys. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, the PPV buys generated $21.75M. The estimated PPV buys is a good number considering Top Rank estimated the buy rate to be 350K-450K. According to […]
UFC 165 and 166 PPV buys disappoint
MMA Fighting reports that UFC 165 and UFC 166 PPV buys are lower than expected. The poor showings are disappointing as the UFC expected to finish strong to end the year. According to Dave Meltzer of MMA Fighting, UFC 165 did somewhere between 300,000 and 325,000 PPV buys. Numbers have not been released for UFC […]
UFC 166 early PPV numbers low?
The Wrestling Observer (subscription recommended) has indicated that the initial PPV buy rate for UFC 166 is lower than expected. While no numbers were provided, the inference was that it was lower than the Bradley-Marquez Top Rank PPV the week prior which expects to have a PPV buy rate between 350,000 and 450,000. If the […]