John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reports that UFC 252 drew 500,000 worldwide PPV buys per his sources. An estimation of the U.S. figure is at 400,000 for the event featuring Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier. Saturday night Miocic and Cormier met in the trilogy with the champion retaining the belt and Cormier retiring. […]
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Report: UFC 251 draws 1.3M PPV buys
The Athletic reports that Saturday’s UFC 251 PPV drew 1.3 million viewers making it the best drawing pay-per-view since UFC 229 which featured the showdown between Khabib Nurmagemdov and Conor McGregor. UFC 251 featured Kamaru Usman taking on last-minute replacement Jorge Masvidal. It also featured two other championship title fights in Petr Yan claiming the […]
UFC 229: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time it was one of the biggest events in company history with UFC 229 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Khabib submits Conor, brawl ensues You’ve likely read all about the post-fight brawl. Despite MMA fan that like to downplay the incident, this was not how […]
UFC 203: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 203 from Cleveland, Ohio where CM Punk’s debut and Stipe Miocic’s title defense were the headlining events. Gall mauls CM Punk We all knew that this was going to happen. 3 pro fights in and Mickey Gall looks like a […]