Ever since Dana White got involved with the UFC he has been looking for the "next Mike Tyson". Many fighters realize Dana's love of Tyson and in a smart political move call themselves "the Mike Tyson of featherweight" .. "the Mike Tyson of.." whatever.. its Mike Tyson this.. Mike Tyson that... non-stop.
well he have a new Mike Tyson. And she smashed Dana's golden goose that lays the golden PPV eggs. Check out Herb Dean's opinion of Amanda Nunes punching power.
Let's "pay attention to outcomes" ...
On January 25 2016 15:23 GreenHorizons wrote: Starting off 2016 with a prediction. Everyone except Johnson and McGregor lose their title this year.
Amanda Nunes isn't going to hold onto this belt for very long. Not Mike Tyson. She has no wrestling and has the worst ground game for someone who supposedly is a "BJJ Blackbelt".
As far as business is concerned, all early indications are strong. Even through doing almost no promotional work, the story of Rousey fighting after 13 months seemed to intrigue people in the end. Ticket sales started off slow. Usually UFC sells most of its tickets right off the bat. Yet, a few weeks out sales picked up big and we were told they were going to legitimately sell out. They ended up with a Las Vegas record, a sellout reported as 18,533 for $4.75 million. Tickets were priced much cheaper than McGregor fights or UFC 200, and the gate was nowhere close to those shows. Early PPV reports, sketchy at this point because of the holiday, were very strong. Reports from sports bars were that they were largely packed, perhaps not at the peak of Rousey’s fights with Bethe Correia or Holm, but at or ahead of McGregor levels outside of McGregor strongholds like strong Irish areas. And the audience was different, with a far higher percentage of women. Google searches regarding the show itself were slightly ahead of UFC 205. Google searches relating to everything UFC (which are traditionally not a great PPV indicator, as only individual show searches correlate well with PPV numbers) over the weekend were ahead of everything except the Rousey-Holm fight, as Rousey alone had 10 million searches on Thursday and Friday. Based on very early estimates the thing is looking at 1.1 million, but this year those numbers have usually ended up being 20 percent high on the big shows. However, unlike with McGregor, where early estimates are high, especially those done of iPPV, Rousey buyers by not being as likely to order on the internet, her last three fights did pretty much identical numbers to what we had midweek after the fight. The scary part is this was a Friday and that was going to hurt. With Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem, the Google search metric that is usually accurate had that fight at what would have been nearly 800,000 when it did 540,000, and other trends also showed just how far off being on Friday hurt. The same thing happened here, as this was 19 percent ahead of McGregor vs. Diaz II, which is the all-time record holder and 27 percent ahead of UFC 205 and 23 percent ahead of the first McGregor vs. Diaz. It was far ahead of Rousey vs. Holm (which ended up doing 1,090,000) for a Rousey vs. Rousey comparison so you can’t say well it’s just Rousey fights being better than McGregor in a metric that wouldn’t translate to a buy number, when actually it’s a great predictor. If it was on a normal Saturday without huge college football competition, this probably would have broken the record. If she and Amanda Nunes had promoted it at all, even on a Friday against the Orange Bowl, the number would have been considerably higher. But neither did, Rousey because she refused and Nunes because Rousey didn’t.
early estimates have UFC 207 at 1.1 million PPV buys. They'll need that because UFC 206 buy rate was very low and there is no January PPV. The more i learn the more i realize the UFC/Dana are going to be begging Honda to come back and fight again. Maybe she can cut down to 125 and they can create a 125 lb belt for her.
Every fighter who wins a championship in 2017 will not call out the divisions top challenger but will instead try to angle for super fights or big names to chase the big paydays.
i thought Woodley won a close fight against Thompson last time. so i'm looking forward to this one.
according to Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter 500,000 PPV buys on DirectTV alone means UFC 207 Buyrate was crazy high. like 1.5 million or more.
Compared to boxing they could x5 the number and still have less. Between the different Alphabet titles and 100 weight classes. They need title fights to sell fights. You for one thought one of the best cards the UFC had ever produced from a fight standpoint was a rip off because there was no titles at stake. It's marketing if your a fight fan you don't care and you watch the good fights, if not these things help drive numbers that is why promoters have been doing it forever.
IMO they have basically just topped calling it the top contender fight, and instead called it interim title for marketing reasons.
the UFC belt situation is better than the WBC belt situation. so its better than unintelligable. WBC has ~30 champs and less than 50 champs if u include the silver level thing so "5X the number and still have less" is not true.
the UFC is starting to go down the boxing pathway with irrelevant interim titles and a women's 145 lb title being fought for by a 135er on a 2 fight losing streak who has not fought at 145 in years. if they had 2 proper 145 lb top contenders rather than 2 UFC employees with careers going sideways i'd have more respect for the 145 lb UFC belt. Dana constantly criticizes boxing orgs and now he is starting to act like them.
Yes if you don't count the WBC and IBF The WBA still has over 30 (men your count is not including the women which push it up to where I was saying. Including interms, and supers and undisputed?
And no its not like bellator and UFC, they are not competing organizations as they can be champs in different things. It is a messed up system
I agree that it's odd that it is getting more like boxing when Dana has constinatly bashed boxing. But Dana is a promoter and has said one thing and done the opposite a ton its not shocking (women will never be in the UFC so on).
It has also happened way more since the sale and directly leading up to the sale so I think it has to do with the "strategy" of the new owners. As long as ppv buys spend more when "championships" are on the line and not when great exciting fighters fight it's going to keep happening as well.
the UFC is 1 org. so comparing it to several boxing orgs and examing the sum total of all champs is an unfair comparison. i chose the single boxing org with the most champions for the most extreme example of "too many champs".
On January 14 2017 04:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: the UFC is 1 org. so comparing it to several boxing orgs and examing the sum total of all champs is an unfair comparison. i chose the single boxing org with the most champions for the most extreme example of "too many champs".
But you included the females for the UFC and only the males for the boxing org you picked. As usual you are wrong but continuing to argue because you can't do a simple thing like. "oops" I forgot the girls.
UFC president Dana White has made an official offer for Floyd Mayweather to fight UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in a boxing match.
On Friday, White went on Colin Cowherd’s "The Herd" to offer Mayweather $25 million to fight McGregor in a boxing match, and he’s willing to sit and negotiate the split of the pay-per-view. White also said that McGregor would also be paid $25 million for the fight.
“I’ll tell you what Floyd, here’s a real offer, and I’m the guy who can actually make the offer, and I’m actually making a real offer,” White said. “We’ll pay you 25 million, we’ll pay Conor 25 million, and then well talk pay-per-view and a certain number. There is a real offer.”