UCF 174, under 100,000 buys?

[FaTaL]

http://www.cagepotato.com/wild-rumor-of-the-day-ufc-174-did-less-than-100000-pay-per-view-buys/


The bad news is, last weekend’s UFC 174: Johnson vs. Bagautinov event might have done a historically awful, Bellator-caliber buyrate. First, here’s Meltzer discussing the early estimates in his newsletter yesterday:


“It’s too early to get accurate numbers, but every indication we’ve gotten was very bad, and that it showed a steep decline from UFC 173, which was among the lower numbers of the last eight years. UFC PPV shows usually range from 200,000 to 500,000 Google searches after the event, and are usually in the top few searched for items in the country. A bad show may only do 100,000. Bellator’s show last month hit 100,000. A big show can top 500,000, with the shows that hover around 1 million buys usually doing anywhere from 1 million to 5 million searches. This show did less than 20,000, unheard of for a PPV.

look at that card, what did they expect?

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

UFC will be dead in 4-5 years

 

[Tide Run This]

Someone's getting fired

 

[FaTaL]

Someone's getting fired

dana aint firing himself

dana is adding another small weight class, i guess he doesnt realize those dudes dont sell

 

[krackdagawd]

hol up ECW Hardcore Heaven '99 doing more ppv buys than UFC

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

 

[Master Teacher]

the UFC will die, and MMA will not be a premier combat sport until the fighters get paid more so the real martial artists who can actual perform fluid entertaining combat will come over and do so

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

they're not making enough stars. No Shamrock's, Couture's, Lesnar's, Liddell's, etc. These dudes got no personality or box office power aside from a select few.

 

[The Infamous]

The UFC is not deep enough to be holding this many cards, especially this many PPVs. I'm not that surprised that this PPV bombed, it had 0 star power and was the 5th event in 3 weeks. If the UFC had 6-7 PPVs (instead of 12-13 PPV events) with (their usual) 4 FOX cards and some free cards sprinkled in there, the events would be stacked. Especially, if the fighters can stay healthy (Pettis, Cain, etc). Right now, it seems like we have a fight card every week.

With the abundance of events, lack of stars/depth and injuries, the UFC is definitely on a decline.

 

[The Infamous]

Although the UFC is on a decline, it's not 'dead' or 'dying'

 

[Master Teacher]

The UFC is not deep enough to be holding this many cards, especially this many PPVs. I'm not that surprised that this PPV bombed, it had 0 star power and was the 5th event in 3 weeks. If the UFC had 6-7 PPVs (instead of 12-13 PPV events) with (their usual) 4 FOX cards and some free cards sprinkled in there, the events would be stacked. Especially, if the fighters can stay healthy (Pettis, Cain, etc). Right now, it seems like we have a fight card every week.

With the abundance of events, lack of stars/depth and injuries, the UFC is definitely on a decline.

fighters can't stay healthy when working under slave conditions

a lot of injuries happen because of over training due to the pressure of being cut because of a lost
and also the frequency of fights

 

[krackdagawd]

Although the UFC is on a decline, it's not 'dead' or 'dying'

I agree, regardless of what organization is on top MMA will never die.

I do however find this extremely funny due to the mma dudebros always saying that "boxing is dead/dying".

Mean while we doing half a milli out here from dudes who aren't even the top draws, that ain't none of my business though.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

UFC will be dead in 4-5 years

harsh but they will need some change big time..

i see it submerging with Vince's circus..The E baby..

I kid..

lol

 

[FaTaL]

Although the UFC is on a decline, it's not 'dead' or 'dying'

they wont die, there still the best mma organization out there by far

there going through a transitional period after losing silva/gsp

when a woman is your top draw you know your in trouble, they need stars but i dont see those personalities right now

 

[The Infamous]

fighters can't stay healthy when working under slave conditions

a lot of injuries happen because of over training due to the pressure of being cut because of a lost
and also the frequency of fights

Injuries are always (to some extent) going to a problem in MMA. This has more to do with the nature of the sport, rather than 'slave conditions'. Training MMA on consistent basis takes a huge toll on one's body.