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If I'm having a group of folks over to my house, I'll usually have them pitch in 10 bucks a couple and bring some food. Sometimes, I've had nobody come over and then I had to decide whether or not I really wanted the PPV's. Honestly, what would happen if they raise the price of Milk, Bread, and basic food necessities.
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ufc ppv's are a far shy from basic food necessities. that being said, over the past few decades the price of food, as well as the general cost of living, has increased. personally i think most of these things are too expensive so i grow most of my own vegetables, can make my own bread products, fish and hunt for as much meat as possible, and try to do the majority of the rest of my shopping at local farmers markets where their capitol isnt so high and, hopefully, the government taxes and shipping costs dont cause such inflated prices.
i know most of this dosnt pertain to the subject, but it does answer your question about basic needs. the point that i was trying to get across in my last post is that at this price and frequency, i feel that the current business model may not be very sustainable or, at least, may plateau very soon. with this many shows, the ufc may over saturate the market and could see their possible ppv sales drop off to a lesser level than what they are shooting for. if they where to put on less shows per year, that where more packed with fights that the fans want to see, they will undoubtedly see higher ppv numbers, and may make more money this way. think about it this way... if the ufc did 6 shows a year (every other month), and had enough hype to sell an average of 2.15 million buys (the amount that mayweather vs de la hoya did), they would not only make more money, but they would have the money to pay their fighters better. right now, with monthly ppvs, they are averaging maybe 600k ppv buys, probably less.
at 600k buys, at 50 bucks a pop, the ufc makes 30 million per ufc. minus the average 3 million for fighter salaries and lets say 10 million for other employee salaries and advertising.. they profit 17 million every month or 34 million every 2 months. at 2.5 million buys mayweather vs de la hoya made 125 million. if the ufc did that they could essentially quadruple their fighter pays to 12 million every 2 months, employee salaries and advertising to 40 million and still prophit 63 million dollars ever other month which is almost double they are bringing in right now. i feel like that is a little more of a sustainable business model and sales projection.
im sorry for the long winded response
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