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The show drew a sellout of 17,834 fans paying $2,662,645.
The prelims did 1,148,000 viewers on average, the best so far this year, and up 31 percent from the average coming into the fight for 2017. Last year, the only shows that beat that number were the five shows that topped 1 million buys. The peak, for Alvarez vs. Poirier, was 1,360,000 viewers.
The show was the highest rated show on cable in the Male 35-49 demo for the day and the second largest cable audience for a UFC event this year, trailing the 1,158,000 viewers for the Fight Night headlined by Chan Sung Jung vs. Dennis Bermudez.
The pre-fight show on FX did 522,000 viewers, the tenth most watched pre-fight show since the FOX deal was signed in 2011. The post-fight show did 329,000 viewers on FS 1. For a comparison, for UFC 210 (Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony Rumble Johnson), those numbers were 723,000 for the prelims, 268,000 for the pre-fight show and 160,000 for the post-fight show.
Yet, early indications are that PPV numbers are almost identical. Based on preliminary numbers, the last three UFC shows (UFC 209 was headlined by Woodley vs. Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson) all did in the neighborhood of 300,000 buys.
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So while some indicators have it higher than that, the early cable/DTV numbers that Meltzer seen, put it in the 300k range
Since other numbers are up, I wouldn't be surprised if it winds up a bit higher (350k).
Now again, this is based off the numbers that came in (so far) & how they compared to recent numbers.
For those that don't know, different companies report numbers at different time for their own accounting purposes.
So the week of, you get x% of potential buys & he compares that to other PPV's in recent history.
When more numbers come in, it obviously can change.
@ThePeoplesMMA
The show drew a sellout of 17,834 fans paying $2,662,645.
The prelims did 1,148,000 viewers on average, the best so far this year, and up 31 percent from the average coming into the fight for 2017. Last year, the only shows that beat that number were the five shows that topped 1 million buys. The peak, for Alvarez vs. Poirier, was 1,360,000 viewers.
The show was the highest rated show on cable in the Male 35-49 demo for the day and the second largest cable audience for a UFC event this year, trailing the 1,158,000 viewers for the Fight Night headlined by Chan Sung Jung vs. Dennis Bermudez.
The pre-fight show on FX did 522,000 viewers, the tenth most watched pre-fight show since the FOX deal was signed in 2011. The post-fight show did 329,000 viewers on FS 1. For a comparison, for UFC 210 (Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony Rumble Johnson), those numbers were 723,000 for the prelims, 268,000 for the pre-fight show and 160,000 for the post-fight show.
Yet, early indications are that PPV numbers are almost identical. Based on preliminary numbers, the last three UFC shows (UFC 209 was headlined by Woodley vs. Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson) all did in the neighborhood of 300,000 buys.
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So while some indicators have it higher than that, the early cable/DTV numbers that Meltzer seen, put it in the 300k range
Since other numbers are up, I wouldn't be surprised if it winds up a bit higher (350k).
Now again, this is based off the numbers that came in (so far) & how they compared to recent numbers.
For those that don't know, different companies report numbers at different time for their own accounting purposes.
So the week of, you get x% of potential buys & he compares that to other PPV's in recent history.
When more numbers come in, it obviously can change.
@ThePeoplesMMA
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