McGregor Math

[Wild]

An $80m payday is what he estimated for UFC 246.

His disclosed guaranteed purse is $3m

Let say this thing blows it out of the park and does 3m buys globally, and he gets $3 per buy. That’s another $9m.

Where’s the other $68m coming from? Someone help this ole dumb redneck out here.

 

[BenAskrensStrikingcoach]

Shoe money.

 

[SuperPig]

An $80m payday is what he estimated for UFC 246.

His disclosed guaranteed purse is $3m

Let say this thing blows it out of the park and does 3m buys globally, and he gets $3 per buy. That’s another $9m.

Where’s the other $68m coming from? Someone help this ole dumb redneck out here.

Heebok

 

[tang]

whiskey

 

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Mayweather

 

[lueVelvet]

Since when do we take what he says seriously?

 

[BenAskrensStrikingcoach]

Since when do we take what he says seriously?

This

Pieman called it in another thread, its the money brand, Floyds blueprint, bar getting bashed, hes still playing from that script.

Hes going to make money through endorsements and some of the advertising will be for his brand, so he will make more than his purse.

80 million is bullshit though.

 

[jason73]

dana isnt even going to make 80 mill off this fight . the entire company pulls in around 600 mil a year total

 

[member 3289]

He gets something like $15 for every PPV buy

 

[RaginCajun]

Either way, that is a crazy amount of money to fight someone coming off 2 ko losses in a row.

 

[MMAPlaywright]

He gets something like $15 for every PPV buy

This, plus he will likely get a $50 million performance bonus.

 

[member 3289]

Threads like this make me miss @FrankieNYC

Ftr Conor made approximately $30 million for the Khabib fight according to frankie.

But that fight was before the ESPN ppv deal and the event sold 2.4 million PPVs (the most of any MMA event ever).

You have to think that PPV numbers are lower now just because you can't buy it in as many places as you could before, but we will also never know how many PPV buys it does unless UFC goes public.

I imagine he is getting a higher share per fight to make up for the likely loss in total PPV buys, but yeah $80 million is almost certainly an exaggeration.

 

[Dick Niaz]

I have no facts to back this up but my guess is he is including the potential impact from all his revenue streams...
- disclosed pay
- undisclosed pay (which in my opinion also likely includes a cut to McGregor Sports and Entertainment, though WME would never admit that publicly)
- special arrangement with Reebok for the fight and he is likely lumping in his cut of the Zig Kinetica shoe launch)
- Proper whiskey sales will spike significantly in advance of the fight
- August McGregor clothing sales will spike
- the dude has many global companies sponsoring him (Burger King, Beats by Dre, Monster, Rolex, etc.)

So while linking the potential earnings from all those sources to this fight may be a stretch and $80m is an optimistic stretch goal, it may not be as extreme an exaggeration as it first appears.

 

[Enock-O-Lypse Now!]

When its all said and done he'll end up broke and alone like all the others who came before him...

 

[Coast]

He made over $30 million for the Khabib fight - PPV + Base pay. That did 2.4 million.

This event isn't doing 2.4. Unless he has some kind of massive undisclosed bonus from the UFC, he's getting nowhere near 80 million, even if you factor sponsorship and boosts to proper 12.

 

[Jehannum]

someone said to remove a zero from every number he claims, thought that was funny and it could be accurate.

 

[member 3289]

Under the old PPV system this would be the 2nd most buys ever after Conor vs. Khabib (2.4 million)


View: https://twitter.com/marc_raimondi/status/1219385085306142721?s=19

 

[lueVelvet]

Under the old PPV system this would be the 2nd most buys ever after Conor vs. Khabib (2.4 million)


View: https://twitter.com/marc_raimondi/status/1219385085306142721?s=19

Numbers are fun and I wish we had more numbers on PPV buys these days.

 

[Masato Toys]

Saw an interview with Masvidal/Helwani and Mavidal openly doubted that number too. I was surprised but then saw this thread and now thinkin the same thing lol

Its a terrible lot of money

 

[Sheepdog]

Under the old PPV system this would be the 2nd most buys ever after Conor vs. Khabib (2.4 million)


View: https://twitter.com/marc_raimondi/status/1219385085306142721?s=19

I'd literally titled a thread 'Conor-Cowboy will sell like shit' and then thought I'd better check some youtube numbers. I then immediately abandoned the thread and hoped that nobody would remember that I had been saying the same thing in other threads. They numbers told me enough.

Conor easily the biggest international combat sports star of all time now. He doesn't even need a B-side like Floyd does and his global reach is so much broader.

 

[member 3289]

I'd literally titled a thread 'Conor-Cowboy will sell like shit' and then thought I'd better check some youtube numbers. I then immediately abandoned the thread and hoped that nobody would remember that I had been saying the same thing in other threads. They numbers told me enough.

Conor easily the biggest international combat sports star of all time now. He doesn't even need a B-side like Floyd does and his global reach is so much broader.

You have to wonder what they increased his PPV points to after the ESPN deal. Cowboy said something like "PPV is done now after the ESPN deal" but of course that probably doesn't mean the same for him as it does for Conor.

Still, it would be interesting to see how big of a hit the numbers have taken.

 

[KWingJitsu]

An $80m payday is what he estimated for UFC 246.

His disclosed guaranteed purse is $3m

Let say this thing blows it out of the park and does 3m buys globally, and he gets $3 per buy. That’s another $9m.

Where’s the other $68m coming from? Someone help this ole dumb redneck out here.

You're not as dumb as you think you are....