Pacquiao-Marquez did 1.41 million PPV buys - Yahoo Sports

The UFC def run too many PPV's.

Look a the card for the next one in Brazil. Nobody is buying that ****.

 

Pac x2
May x1
Cotto x2
Marquez vs Bradley/Morales
Canelo and Chavez could be moved to PPV with the right fights

It's not impossible. I think the core PPV audience for the UFC will continue to drop and weaker shows will go below 200k in 2012. It's their own fault for being greedy. They can always fall back on the Fox deal and less PPVs but for the moment they want around 14 PPVs which won't be sustainable.

 

I don't get it when people say this is good for boxing? It only means more people saw the wrong fights, both those fights are bad to casual fans. Mosley = borefest, Marquez = controversial, robbery to most people.

Even *******s should agree with me on this, its bad for boxing that a lot of the casual fans are seeing more of the bad side. Even floyd's fight with Ortiz was bad. The top 3 PPV fights in boxing is horrible and the kind that turns casual fans away from the sport

 

Again, who will Cotto face that could get past 500,000 let alone the million you need to match UFC numbers with only 5 pay per views? Marquez did 200,000 on a stacked show against Diaz. No way does he pass 500,000 with anyone other than Mayweather/Pacquiao and especially not with Bradley (can barely get people to watch him for free) or even Morales (who bombed against Maidana in April).

The UFC is dropping back to 13 pay per views this year. Ideally it'd be twelve to avoid double months but they're hardly being greedy. And the shows usually are good enough to avoid people thinking they've been ripped off. The problem has been that with the injuries they've lacked truly marketable main events, something compounded by lightweight champion Frankie Edgar not connecting with the audience. Other than his title fights there's really no evidence of the base dropping in 2011 - the shows that did purely would have done just as badly in previous years.

 

Its a perfectly good card from the in-ring stand point. Although I agree I wouldn't run it on pay per view by itself due to Aldo not being a big star. Personally I'd have done Lesnar vs Overeem on January 14th as a split-show with cards in Vegas and Brazil. Ditto actually with the Japan show that's likely to do dreadful numbers as well.

 

Chavez or Canelo vs Cotto would easily do those numbers. Guaranteed.

 

Aren't you from the UK?

I doubt that you would like to pay $780 (or more) + tax to watch the UFC year round. Numbers are down significantly and they are being greedy. There is zero reason why the next show is PPV when nobody will buy it in N.A. and the main event is in the middle of the night for Brazilians. They will run free & PPV shows nearly every week which will backfire and hurt their smaller PPVs.

Let's see what happens if both Evans and Sonnen lose their next fights and if GSP doesn't recover soon. The UFC won't have a flagship PPV for 2012.

Pac x2 PPVs 2.3 million
Floyd x1 1.2 million
Cotto vs Canelo & Chavez 1 million combined
Marquez vs Morales/Bradley 600k combined

Not impossible, but unlikely.

Edit: Ok I cheated with the number of events, but I also underestimated those Cotto PPVs and Mayweather could fight x2 this year. Either way the UFC #s will continue to decrease imo.

 

Good numbers great news for the sport.