The Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern reports that UFC 269 drew “slightly more than” 500,000 PPV buys on ESPN+. .@ESPNPlus sold slightly more than 500,000 PPV units for #UFC269 last month, per SBJ sources. pic.twitter.com/EE5Yuqe7UE — Adam Stern (@A_S12) January 20, 2022 UFC 269 took place Saturday, December 11th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, […]
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Top 10 of 2021: No. 1 UFC business is booming
It is no surprise that the success of the UFC is the number 1 MMA business story of the year. Both Disney and Endeavor have praised the UFC in their respective earnings calls. Disney touts the UFC for its increase in subscribers to ESPN+. Notably, UFC PPV events on ESPN+ went from $64.99 to $69.99 […]
Crawford-Porter scores 190K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that Saturday’s Top Rank Boxing PPV between Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter drew 190,000 buys. The event saw Crawford stop Porter in the 10th round of the main event in Las Vegas. The telecast was distributed through ESPN+ which requires that you subscribe to the digital platform and purchase […]
Report: UFC 268 draws 700K PPV buys
The Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand reports that UFC 268 drew 700,000 PPV buys on ESPN+. The event featured Kamaru Usman taking on Colby Covington and occurred on the same night as the Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant fight. The event, which took place at Madison Square Garden in New York, continues the success of the UFC […]
