If true, that's the huge. That would tie it for 6th place on the all time list for UFC PPV's. Discuss.
UFC 251 did 1.3m buys, allegedly
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that is a lot
Jorge just came up
Hope he didn't bet too much on himself this fight
Jorge just came up
Hope he didn't bet too much on himself this fight
Even if he did, he'll be alright. He's got to be beating sponsors away with a stick at this point.
For perspective 249 did 700k. Allegedly.
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Volk likely did but the other 3 probably not
What's really funny is that main event did good for Masvidal's stock with the casuals and destroyed Usman's
They will damage that stock if they are dumb enough to make the Colby fight though.
They should do Colby vs Leon Scott for the next contender and let Masvidal beat on some cans like Nate Diaz to build him back up.
That's actually a really high number. It seems that anything over 400k is a big success, otherwise they wouldn't do PPV's (most are way under that, aren't they?).
I think Conor's last fight against Cowboy did 1.1m, so you're probably right.
LOL at believing the numbers that only ESPN and the UFC have access to. I still don’t know many people who even understand how to order the ppv anymore. Plus bars didn’t show this event so hard to believe those numbers without bars being added to it.
Many states aren't allowing bars to be open. Wouldn't that make people that typically go to bars to watch fights have smaller parties at their houses to buy the PPV's, or just buy the event to watch themselves? That would add to PPV numbers, not take away from buys, no? Also, there are no sports right now for the most part, so if people don't have entertainment and are somewhat stir crazy for some entertainment on a Saturday, they may be inclined to buy, especially seeing as this event did get much more interesting in the last 6 days.
Having said all that, I question everything with the UFC, so that is why I said "allegedly" in the title. Typically people can't even come down with a rough estimate for weeks, yet this one was right off the bat, 2 days removed from the event.
From how I understand it the bars pay based on capacity for the PPV.
example
500 people bar pays 5k
1000 people bar pays 10k
the ufc then adds the capacity numbers to the PPV numbers. I don’t think that high of a percentage of people stay home and order. I literally don’t know anyone that has paid for a PPV since ESPN + and many young bar goers now stream the events if they stay home.
I was unaware that is how bar's were counted on PPV numbers. I was aware bars paid more for PPV's, but didn't know that capacity was how it was counted on actual buys for any given event. Interesting.
