I think it has a shot of reaching that number. I think there are a lot of people that always want to buy UFC PPVs but don't because either the card isn't big enough or there isn't enough interest. I've talked to a lot of people this week that don't normally care about UFC that plan to watch it...which brings me to the main reason that it probably won't hit the big numbers - For every 10-15 UFC fans, 1 dude buys it and has all of his buddies over or everyone goes somewhere to watch it. I've never seen BWW or Hooters advertise a Wrestlemania.
sorry i was wrong. I can't seem to find in accurate lists of the buy rates for all UFC fights. it seems the past few fights are around ~600k-700k. UFC 66 did 1.05 million and that is supposedly the record for mma. UFC 92 was supposedly at 900K.
I did find this... http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-ppvbuys121208&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Top 10 North American PPV buy rates, 2008 1. Boxing: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 6, 1,250,000 2. UFC: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture, Nov. 15, 1,010,000 3. Wrestling: WrestleMania, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Paul “Big Show” Wight, March 30, 670,000 4. UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jon Fitch/Lesnar vs. Heath Herring, Aug. 9, 625,000 5. UFC: Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Feb. 2, 600,000 6. UFC: Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin, July 5, 540,000 7. UFC: St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra, April 19, 530,000 8. Boxing: Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr., Jan. 19, 500,000 9. UFC: Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans, Sept. 6, 480,000 10. UFC: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk/Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida, May 24, 475,000
haha wow. i think it is time for bed. I merged the 2 sentences and came up with GSP is my 2nd favorite fighter.
Do any of you guys play the fantasy ufc? UFC : Ultimate Fighting Championshipfantasy At the end of the year all pts are tallied up and winner gets something. don't remember. I'm doing pretty good...averaging around 120 pts, but no where near the top. anyway, here are my predictions. Mir over Lesnar choke in 1st...I don't care much for Mir...too damn cocky and not sure about Lesnar, although I did like what he said in last night's show about the ref in their first match. Mazzagati. He said he wants to knock his mustache off his face and out of the arena. Alves over GSP...split decision. Don't like GSP, not sure why. Thiago over Fitch by KO in 3rd Henderson TKO's big mouth, cry baby Bisping in 2nd Akiyama over Belcher unanimous decision Bonnar over Coleman by TKO, but I hope it's the other way around. Danzig over Miller TKO in 1st Jon Jones over Jake O'Brien by unan decision (Long duck?) Dong Hyun Kim over TJ Grant by KO in 3rd Tom Lawlor over CB Dollaway by unan decision Matt Grice over Shannon Gugerty by arm lock in 1st
