UFC 81 gets 650 000 PPV buys - Page 2

iverbure · 02-19-2008, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dork8503

I don't see them putting Lesnar on a ppv outside the states for atleast 2 fights.

IMO Lesnar will fight 2 times pretty fast, no counting the Mir fight. As long as Lesnar wins those fights against average oh whatever fighters fast, i see then pushing him hard and fast to get him experience.

Yeah putting Lesnar on a card outside the states is stupid imo. Unless it was in Japan however, the ufc isn't putting on a event in japan anytime soon.

Lesnar isn't going to bring in those kinda numbers his second fight however still if he the card brings in a 450,000, than i don't think they'll be complaing either.

Just the facted that Lesnar potientally bring in thousands of new fans, away from wrestling was a very good thing for the UFC.

Now if they can find a way to lure a boxing star, like a Pavlik and only pay him 500k, than could get lure away soem more boxing fans also.

jcmichaels42 · 02-21-2008, 05:31 AM

I didn't see this posted yet, but it's pretty interesting. Story comes from MMAnews.com's sister site, Wrestlezone.com.

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Early PPV buyrate estimates for UFC 81 (Brock Lesnar's debut) are around 600,000 domestic buys. If that figure is accurate, UFC 81 will be the 5th most ordered PPV event in company history. It is very possible that number could sell more domestically than the upcoming Wrestlemania XXIV show.

An interesting fact is that Brock Lesnar's UFC debut drew more buys than Wrestlemania 19, when Brock Lesnar wrestled against Kurt Angle in the main event. That show did a final number of 560,000 buys worldwide.

As far how much of an impact Lesnar had on the event's huge PPV success, industry sources estimate that the event would have drawn approximately 325,000 buys if Lesnar was not featured and Tim Sylvia vs. Antonio Rodrigo was the main attraction.

Lesnar received a lot of heat for the money he earned in his first UFC contest ($250,000). Now that the numbers are in, it's clear that he could have earned 10 times that amount and UFC would have still made a killing off his debut.

That's a pretty big number. Looks like Dana might not be a dope paying Lesnar that much money after all.

jesusatemyhotdog · 02-21-2008, 05:34 AM

Merge!

http://forums.mmanews.com/general-mm...-ppv-buys.html

jcmichaels42 · 02-21-2008, 05:35 AM

Actually I'm wrong....Jesusatemyhotdog posted this all ready. I should've looked a little harder.

Feel free to delete this or merge it into that thread. Sorry Jesus!