The Sports Business Journal reports that UFC 300 will sell 1 million PPV units on Saturday per Dana White. The benchmark will make it one of the first events post-pandemic to hit the mark. The event takes place at the UFC’s home arena, T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The card does not have one of […]
PPV History
Davis-Garcia draws ~200K-250K buys, 124K for replay on Showtime
Last Saturday’s replay of the Gervonta Davis- Hector Garcia fight on Showtime drew 124,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It was good enough for 140th overall out of 150 shows rated on Saturday night. The telecast also featured the fight between Roiman Villa and Rashidi Ellis. It was Villa that came back to win […]
Report: Belfort-Holyfield PPV draws 150K PPV buys
According to boxing writer Dan Rafael, Saturday’s night Triller fight featuring Vitor Belfort and Evander Holyfield drew 150,000 PPV buys including linear and digital platforms. The third featured Triller PPV broadcast in its existence likely grossed about $7.5M from the PPV alone (assuming 150K buys) per Rafael. However, the gross revenue did not cover the […]
Report: UFC 253 draws 700K worldwide buys
The Athletic reports that UFC 253 this past Saturday drew 700,000 worldwide buys on ESPN+. The main event featured Israel Adesanya as he took on Paulo Costa. The 700K buys ties it with UFC 249 this past May as Justin Gaethje fought Tony Ferguson in the main event. UFC 251 is this year’s reported high […]
Showtime Boxing pits its PPV up against UFC this weekend
Boxing returns to PPV on Saturday featuring the Charlo brothers in what many boxing fans see as a quality card with the potential for excitement. However, it goes up against the UFC’s monthly PPV. What will combat sports fans do? First off, the Showtime PPV is priced at $74.95 which makes many fans apprehensive of […]