Latest Estimates of UFC 117 Pay Per View Buys Dramatically Lower at 600,000

Or to a lesser extent Rashad/Rampage or the now retired Liddell.

I mean it’s a good number.

Its still a very impressive number, whichever report is more on point. If anything it justifies these so-called “gawd posts”.

Are you saying that I said that? Who are you quoting?

The post Lesnar bump is a myth and it’s a bad thing when a string of PPV’s have done real well. No one has ever cared about number 1 contenders matches. So all things considered this was a VERY good number.

It’s kind of a sad day when we can’t just look at a PPV that sold 600,000 buys, put over the best fighter in MMA and gave us one of the best fights we’ve ever seen, and just say “damn”.

I’m not saying nothing else plays a role – the business model of routinely matching up high-level contenders as frequently as possible has paid a lot of dividends. But this is still a good fucking number for a card headlined by Anderson Silva and co-headlined by Jon Fitch.

Did you really just go with a Jon Fitch bringing the card’s numbers up excuse?

Yes to a degree, but not a big as originally thought. I’m curious of how many fans bought this soley because of Sonnen’s trash talk and not because of the card as a whole, which IMO was far superior to 102 in terms of match ups and name value

It does, it just doesn’t prove it as hard as a million buys. It’s still double what people have been expecting/getting from Silva title defenses.

Done.

…because I buy just about EVERY card. But what got me interested in this fight was Chael’s performance against Marquardt, not the moronic crap that came out of his mouth.

Questions:

• If the final numbers come in even lower than 600K, how will the storyline change? If this thing barely squeaks past 500K, will pro wrestling tactics have diminshed sales? Or is any non-zero number somehow proof that what Chael did worked?
• How are sponsors reacting to this kind of thing? Has anyone contacted the folks that put their name on Chael’s shorts to see how they liked being associated with the guy who took a shit on Lance Armstrong and blamed it on a Hispanic guy?
• If saying mildly racist, xenophobic and homophobic things while lying about his record did boost PPV buys (I guess from the Stormfront crowd? Thanks for telling me who they are, SCM!), how many more buys could Chael have brought in by denying the holocaust and proclaiming that beating Anderson would be the beginning of the Fourth Reich?

[For the humor/critical-thinking impaired: I don’t think that Chael is a racist, a nazi or a white supremacist. I think he’s a guy willing to lie and bullshit to boost his own profile. But since we’re comparing this to Pro Wrestling, isn’t that the next step? To bump it up a notch? To take the storyline to the next level?]

there are some of us who like mma for the sport and the soap opera gets old. i understand being a douchebag = more buys but why should i care? I’m the one paying not getting the check

And decided paying attention to girls’ titties > retards doing bad acting for out of shape retards. You might be convincing yourself with your wishful thinking, but sadly, it bears no resemblance to reality.

Have you ever tried to get any two locations to communicate information to eachother? Even when they are the same company?

you’re supposed to read the stuff between the parentheses too ya know

so the cable company takes half and that drops their profit down to about 8-9 million as opposed to 17-19. oh and they’re gonna do another one in 3 weeks which should make as much if not more..thats one hell of a monthly statement :) i dont think the UFC cares NEARLY as much as we do about the ppv numbers as long as they keep making a quarter of a billion dollars a year