Bellator 106 Does 1.1 Mill Average, 1.4 Mill Peak

[SBC]

Good ratings. I just wish they would give their regular shows more push. They consistently put on good shows but they don't get near enough promotion. It's probably hard to do since they run them week after week, but they should still put much more into it than they do.

 

[Zezima]

It's good to see bellator getting good ratings, I think if it was on ppv, it might have been 30-50k buys.

 

[skylolow]

Good ratings. I just wish they would give their regular shows more push. They consistently put on good shows but they don't get near enough promotion. It's probably hard to do since they run them week after week, but they should still put much more into it than they do.

Helwani always has brought this up to Bjorn and he blows it off all the time. His stance is do it every other week and give fans a week to build up too the next show. Hitting them week after week is almost too much.

I kind of agree with him on it.

 

[BreakUrBank]

Spike makes for so many great free fights , from Glory to Bellator- enjoy the fights so Many people here talk numbers and think guy's in the business actually Give a fuck about them.

 

[Taco Loco]

Bellator will conquer UFC, chuck I'm staying here....

 

[FrankieNYC]

Yeah this was a rarity for them. We'll see if they transfer over to this Friday's cards without title fights. I'm going to guesstimate it wont but stranger things have happened before.

exactly

 

[whitebelt30]

exactly

There should be an uptick in their ratings for a week or 2 but I would guess they would return to their normal average after that. That's what happened before after one of their events 2 seasons ago (can't remember which one) that had some incredible fights.

 

[Bigj383]

There should be an uptick in their ratings for a week or 2 but I would guess they would return to their normal average after that. That's what happened before after one of their events 2 seasons ago (can't remember which one) that had some incredible fights.

There may only be two weeks left in the season. Rampage is the headliner for one of them. His fight should draw pretty big.

 

[Bigj383]

http://www.mmaweekly.com/bellator-106-ticket-sales-show-majority-were-complimentary-or-unsold

I guess it's not all great for Bellator 106. Over half the tickets went unsold. 36% of people in attendance had comped tickets. Just 4,189 tickets were sold for a live gate of $359,000.

Sounds good 359,000... It would be if the payroll for the event wasn't $551,500. So Bellator has to make up the -$192,500 they are already down in commercial and sponsor revenue. But Bellator also spent a fortune of advertising the Nov 2 event. PPV advertising dollars were put into this event as well as a press tour for Tito and Rampage who wound up not fighting to Bellator's advantage in many ways.

 

[whitebelt30]

http://www.mmaweekly.com/bellator-106-ticket-sales-show-majority-were-complimentary-or-unsold

I guess it's not all great for Bellator 106. Over half the tickets went unsold. 36% of people in attendance had comped tickets. Just 4,189 tickets were sold for a live gate of $359,000.

Sounds good 359,000... It would be if the payroll for the event wasn't $551,500. So Bellator has to make up the -$192,500 they are already down in commercial and sponsor revenue. But Bellator also spent a fortune of advertising the Nov 2 event. PPV advertising dollars were put into this event as well as a press tour for Tito and Rampage who wound up not fighting to Bellator's advantage in many ways.

You are totally correct and that's just fighter payroll. That doesn't include physical production costs, venue costs, etc. They make small money at each event via merchandise etc. but it can't begin to cover the financial losses from this. The long beach venue holds 13 thousand, so it was less than half full for this event and 36% were comps.

I was also wondering if they had to pay a penalty to the cable providers for canceling the PPV on such short notice. The providers had already blocked out that time and channel for the PPV event.

 

[FrankieNYC]

I was also wondering if they had to pay a penalty to the cable providers for canceling the PPV on such short notice. The providers had already blocked out that time and channel for the PPV event.

I never heard a case where that didn't happen