How does Bellator afford to offer insane amounts to Chuck/Mirko?

Easy when you pay undercard guys 250/250 or 1k/1k and force them to sell a minimum of 50+ tickets for their spot.
 
This may sound like a stupid move on Belator's part, however i can guarantee that my wife who mockingly refers to MMA as gay porn when i'm watching could pick both Chuck and Cro-Cop out of a police lineup every single time and i know for fact the last thing she would say is: "Aren't they too old to be fighting"?

Seems dumb on it's face but it'll probably draw well enough and sadly, this will get 10X's more promotion than anything the UFC will be putting out.

But they ARE getting too old to be fighting. And even if you're going to motivate the signings with some sort of cynical plea to the lowest common demeanor - remember that these guys arent exactly moviestars but rather famous among a nische of old-school MMA fans. I dont expect any earth shattering PPVs, rather slightlt above average and then the investment is up - because these guys arent fighting more than 1-2 times tops. Meanwhile the parts of the roster with actually quality remains unknown, unhyped and unprofitable - ripe for UFC snatching.

This mostly applies to Chuck as Cro Cop seems to have some left in the tank, especially looking at the state of MMA HW in general.
 
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I didn't even know Betator had an event this past Friday. So, the people, who are hoping for the UFC to die, can go to hell. Because, I love UFC MMA, and if the UFC dies, I think MMA will die with it. LOL


The greatest thing
For mma fans would be the major organization is held overseas. As they would be allowed to use rules to that will show you who the best fighter is.
The unified rules are a joke. The most vulnerable spots in a fight are safe spots in today’s mma. You can touch the damn floor so you can’t get knees in the face.
It’s all about gaming the shitty scoring system.
Holding a guy down and taking the fight out of the fight is rewarded in today’s mma.

If the ufc suddenly died. I wouldn’t want bellator to get the torch or any u.s based promotion
 
It's Bellator's own fault. They have plenty of super legit guys they should tie a rocket too and push them to the moon. Instead they blow huge wads of cash on old guys who will fight for a few years tops and leave them holding their own ass.
 
The greatest thing
For mma fans would be the major organization is held overseas. As they would be allowed to use rules to that will show you who the best fighter is.
The unified rules are a joke. The most vulnerable spots in a fight are safe spots in today’s mma. You can touch the damn floor so you can’t get knees in the face.
It’s all about gaming the shitty scoring system.
Holding a guy down and taking the fight out of the fight is rewarded in today’s mma.

If the ufc suddenly died. I wouldn’t want bellator to get the torch or any u.s based promotion
They need Japan rules in a cage with elbows and headbutts and alligators.
 
Viacom is not giving him a blank cheque though. Coker overpayed plenty in Strikeforce and suffered because of it. Just because he is paying these top guys does not mean they are doing well, in fact they are not getting great numbers at all.

Coker was doing great with Strikeforce, also financally, pulling in amazing numbers for CBS (4Mios for Gina vs Cyborg and Gracie vs. Shamrock). What killed them was that they had a high level and high costs (but still made profit) and then the Diaz bros decided to brawl on live TV making CBS to drop SF like a hot potato. Without TV partner but with the costs they had to sell SF.
 
The greatest thing
For mma fans would be the major organization is held overseas. As they would be allowed to use rules to that will show you who the best fighter is.
The unified rules are a joke. The most vulnerable spots in a fight are safe spots in today’s mma. You can touch the damn floor so you can’t get knees in the face.
It’s all about gaming the shitty scoring system.
Holding a guy down and taking the fight out of the fight is rewarded in today’s mma.

If the ufc suddenly died. I wouldn’t want bellator to get the torch or any u.s based promotion

You need you some Rizin!
 
Bellator is a company formed and backed by a big tv network to counter UFC programming and also to fill in a time slot. Think Microsoft deciding to get into the console business. Even when they were losing profit they didn't care. They wanted to capture a part of the market. It's an after thought program of an already successful company.

But I'd be interested to see their profit margins. I would say the margins are very thin. Probably just enough to stay afloat and stay within positive numbers.

The UFC has big loans to pay off and has to make as much as possible. There's no loans with Bellator.

Bellator lost money in 2017. They only grossed about $20m total
 
What are they being paid? The UFC isn't even in the equation for salaries for Liddell or Cro Cop. They don't want either one, so why would Bellator pay them like they are competing with the UFC for their services?

Use your head.

They can still bring an audience -- ones that want to watch a train wreck -- so it really doesn't matter as long as they get eye balls that they can promise to advertisers.
 
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