Top 10 PPV Buys in North America, 2008

Not surprised. I know UFC can do better but can Pacman/Hatton outsell DLH/Pacman? If not UFC may have the most buys for a single PPV.

 

I suspect UFC 100 should break all those numbers apperently all the belts will be on the line that night.....or at least that's the rumour.

 

Certainly not if BJ Penn beats GSP. Imagine BJ defending both belts in one night!

 

BJ can fight fight twice. He's good enough.:bbb

 

We all know that its not going to happen. They also need to think about the main events for the cards after 100. We dont want be stuck with more Stevenson vs Sanchez type main events. :nono

 

Try not to be so upset with Stevenson-Sanchez. It is a good fight actually and its free.

 

Have just read a Dana White interview and he said the UFC 92 show "Crushed the Lesnar fight by 150,000-175,000 buys."

It is a good fight, but it pisses me off that they had the cheek to have it as a main event and then hold it in a big arena like the O2.

 

This is what UFC does better than boxing. They ALWAYS promote new, young fighters.
Casual boxing fans knows almost nothing about new and upcoming boxers. They are overshadowed by big names, DLH, PBF, Pacman, Klitschko etc etc. Where does that bring boxing? Thats right, if you're not interested in the main even, you don't give 2 shits about rest of the card. Leave alone undercard if there is one. This loses PPVs.
In UFC they can have a shitty main event and still back it up by very solid and entertaining card. They wont get as many buys but it will still rate high. Bars will buy the card(if its even ppv), people will watch, get to know the fighters. The cycle keeps going thanks to Dana as ******* as he is.

 

very accurate, surprised you gave Dana even a little bit of credit.

 

boxing needs to do better!

 

wow. that just tells you that boxing in a horrible shape. 3 of the four fighters in the two ppvs are at least three years past rheir prime and may not be fighting again. the other one openly said he'll only fight for another year then retire.

boxing needs new faces. yall may not like small names fighting in big cards in the ufc, nut that's what's keeping ufc selling. they promote new guys and they actually care about the undercard.

boxing promoters only think of the main event. the dlh-pac undercard sold the most but the undercard was one of the worst last year. imagine how many ppvs more it could have sold if they put some effort with the undercard

 

Ufoalf got it right on the head; in boxing if a up and comer loses a fight he is a bum/glass jawed/hypejob all that shot. In mma the guy is allowed by the fans to adjust his game, find a new camp, bring in a specialist, change weightclass, or any number of things even just saying he fought a bad fight; mma doesn't canabalize their young fighters. Undefeated records are viewed as what they almost always are, poor opposition or a young career, not as a requirement; it makes undefeated records mean something and loses not mean more than they actuallyean.

 

I don't know necessarily that it would have sold more PPVs. More importantly it could have gotten some young talent hyped up so they were capable of having PPV headliner events of their own someday.

 

It can't have a good undercard because lining ODL pockets are more important.