Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we’ll be taking a look at UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn II, which was held at the TD BankNorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, August 28th, 2010. Edgar Stymies Penn, Maynard Awaits Frankie Edgar proved that UFC 112 was not a fluke with his dominating […]
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Shine Fights give fans chance to pick matchups for PPV
Shine Fights announced that its fans will have the chance to vote online to decide first round match-ups for its eight man, one night lightweight grand prix tournament on September 10th. The fights will be on PPV. From MMA Fan House: Shine Fights announced its lightweight tournament earlier this month and has added a wrinkle […]
Tapout and Fathom Co-Promoting for UFC 118
Tapout Clothing and Fathom Events will partner to host the new UFC 4-Pack promotion at UFC 118. Purchasers of four tickets to UFC 118 at any Fathom Events-sponsored showing in the U.S. will be eligible to receive a free Tapout t-shirt. Payout Perspective: Co-promotions are probably under-utilized in sports today, but I tend to think […]
UFC 117: ~600,000 PPV Buys
The Figure Four Weekly is reporting that trending numbers for UFC 117 were off and the early estimates coming in from cable companies now peg the event closer to 600,000 PPV buys. UFC staff was told early last week that the UFC 117 numbers were looking to be just under 600,000 buys, significantly down from […]
UFC 117 Payouts
The California State Athletic Commission has released fighter payouts for UFC 117. Anderson Silva and Matt Hughes topped the list with $200,000 each. In total, the UFC paid out $1.029 million in disclosed payouts and another $300,000 in disclosed bonuses. Note: that the money reported below is only the money required to be reported by […]