I think the whole matching thing will be a very interesting to watch play out, not so much withFrancis but with middle of the road name value guys. Remember that percentage isn't just for one fighter that is across the board of fighters on the PPV event. UFC will just counter it by saying do you want a split of a PPV that sells 100K at $50(50/50 split with the PFL and PPV provider). PFL gets half of it to distribute 2.5M and the fighters on the card are going to get at least 50% of that, its only 1.25M going to the fighters roughly. In the UFC he can get $4 per PPV(or whatever he gets in negotiations) for PPV that sells 400K and just his PPV bonus could be 1.6M per a fight. I like that the PFL is trying to do something new with the fighters in mind but I'm not sure there going to get the cream of crop of free agents until they can prove that this concept is better for the top fighters. In other words you got to sell a lot of PPV's at a rate of at least $60 or $70 an event. But if you can get up to 300K to 400K in buys it will really shake things up. Personally, I don't see it happening. Francis and this boxing kick is really going to be the one hurdle the UFC needs to get over with Francis.
P.S.: Unfortunately, I think Conor is about the only fighter that could pull big numbers away from the UFC. Conor though would just promote it himself though. Maybe GSP or Khabib, but I'm pretty sure that ship sailed and the later has an active contract at this time.
