MMA Fighting reports that early estimates of UFC 163 featuring the Korean Zombie fighting Jose Aldo are between 170K to 190K buys. UFC 161 has been estimated at 135K to 155K PPV buys. According to Dave Meltzer, both of the estimates are from individuals within the cable and MMA industry. They indicated the estimated PPV […]
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UFC 163: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 163 which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Jose Aldo defended his Featherweight title against The Korean Zombie, Chan Sun Jung. Zombie’s shoulder pops out leading to Aldo victory It would have added to the lore and nickname […]
Rampage-Tito on first Bellator PPV
During Bellator’s live event Wednesday night, it was announced that Rampage Jackson would meet Tito Ortiz on Bellator’s first ever pay per view on November 2nd in Long Beach, California. The announcement was somewhat of a surprise considering most had thought that Jackson would be boxing Roy Jones, Jr. Via Bellator press release: “To have […]
Report: UFC 162 does 550K PPV buys, UFC 161 grabs 150K buys (updated)
MMA Fighting reports the PPV buy rates for UFC 161 and 162. The Anderson Silva-Chris Weidman fight drew 550,000 PPV buys whereas the unheralded Dan Henderson-Rashad Evans fight drew only 150,000 PPV buys. In the post-fight press conference of UFC 162, Dana White had estimated 800,000 for the July 6th event. It looks like based […]