Poor promotion for Canelo-GGG2

Puroresu_Fan · Aug 8, 2018

Gennady said: ↑

No world tour, no press conferences, no HBO face off, not a lot advertising in the media, both fighters are very quiet, etc. etc.

One of the biggest fights in boxing, and basically the promotion for it is zero. I think the May fight would have done more than 2.5M PPV, now I doubt it will be higher than 1.3 as the previous one.

That’s why UFC is taking over, they are doing much better job in the media, not to mention as there is only belt the necessary and expected fights are happening, fighters are not ducking each other, and also the judges for this fight are still a big question mark..
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UFC PPV buyrates are not great either.

They need Mcgregor and Lesner back badly.

https://www.mmamania.com/ufc-226-re...6-does-380000-ppv-buys-mma-cormier-miocic-mma

Despite offering a true superfight between UFC champions Daniel Cormier and Stipe Miocic, UFC 226 earlier this month from Las Vegas didn’t quite live up to the hype.

According to a recent report by MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer, the July 7th event pulled in an estimated 380,000 pay-per-view (PPV) buys. That isn’t completely disappointing considering UFC has struggled to produce high-selling cards since Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones, and Brock Lesnar hit the shelf, but the promotion most likely expected more buys from a Miocic vs. Cormier superfight.

That said, the late removal of a featherweight championship bout between current titleholder Max Holloway and undefeated contender Brian Ortega certainly didn’t help. The card did offer other recognizable fighters like Francis Ngannou, Anthony Pettis, and Derrick Lewis, but they weren’t enough to make UFC 226 a smashing box office success.

With these numbers in hand, it makes even more sense for the promotion to bring back Lesnarand have the former WWE superstar fight for the UFC heavyweight title in his return. And considering Cormier defeated Miocic via first-round knockout at UFC 226, “DC” will be the one to welcome the beast back into the cage.

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