Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury fight on October 12th drew “just under” 600K PPV buys in the US and another 300K in international PPV. The report would seem to conclude that the trilogy did not live up to expectations on PPV. The third fight between Wilder and Fury saw […]
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McGregor shares UFC 257 buy rate
Conor McGregor has once again shared the PPV payout he has received from the UFC. According to the post, UFC 257 drew 1,504,737 buys. McGregor fought Dustin Poirier on January 23rd in Abu Dhabi. Poirier stopped McGregor in the 2nd round of their fight. pic.twitter.com/Uo0Ff8xyuv — Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 4, 2021 Per the report, […]
Report: UFC 264 draws 1.8M global PPV buys
The Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand reports that UFC 264 scored 1.8 million PPV buys. Of the total global buys, 1.3 million buys were domestic on ESPN+. The event featured the third fight between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor with the “Diamond” winning via TKO due to McGregor’s broken tibia. ESPN went all out with […]
Report: UFC 263 draws 500K
John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reports that UFC 263 drew 500,000 PPV buys on ESPN+. With international buys, it “had around 600,000 total buys.” The event featured two title fights headlined by Israel Adesanya as he defended his belt against Marvin Vettori. The event also saw Brandon Moreno win the UFC Flyweight title […]
Report: Mayweather-Paul reaches 1M PPV buys
Sportico is reporting that Sunday night’s PPV event between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Logan Paul drew 1 million buys. The numbers were revealed by Showtime which produced the PPV. According to Sportico, the 1 million buys would put the media revenue from the bout at more than $50 million. The event went for $49.99 on […]