Bellator and UFC Will Both Run Events In Conn Sept 5th Head to Head

Bellator fighters must be sweating. Gonna be much harder to reach that ticket quota to get $800 instead of $400 for their fight :D
 
Bellator fighters must be sweating. Gonna be much harder to reach that ticket quota to get $800 instead of $400 for their fight :D

When they dont sell all their tickets does Bellator take the money from their purse to make up for it?

How does that work?
 
Do people actually believe that Bellator's gate will come anywhere close to the UFC's ??
If you put Curran/Pitbull, Lima/Jansen and the HW tournament on there it would do well for Bellator standards but they don't want to waste that card when you can do it on a day where you aren't competing with the biggest MMA org in history.

It'd be better for Bellator to do the HW tournament and nothing else for that card. Trying to compete could flop big time even if the UFC doesn't put out a good card (which is probable)

UFC could put a Fight pass card and it will still double or triple Bellators gate.

The real battle is the tv ratings, thats the battle depending on the card that Bellator can win.
 
When they dont sell all their tickets does Bellator take the money from their purse to make up for it?

How does that work?

Yes, it's been confirmed by several fighters on the UG and it was brought to fans attention when the guy who was going to fight Brian Rogers refused to fight because he was only gonna get paid $400 because he didn't sell enough tickets.

Apparently it's in their contract like "$1000 for the fight, unless you don't sell 150 tickets than it's docked to 50% of that purse."

That's basically the gist of it, even well known guys like Ben Saunders claim they had this in their contract. It's bush league.
 
UFC could put a Fight pass card and it will still double or triple Bellators gate.

The real battle is the tv ratings, thats the battle depending on the card that Bellator can win.

To be fair UFC abu dabi Nelson vs Nog on fightpass had a 1.8 million dollar gate. Which probably more than tripples possibly quadruples Bellator's best gate ever.
 
To be fair UFC abu dabi Nelson vs Nog on fightpass had a 1.8 million dollar gate. Which probably more than tripples possibly quadruples Bellator's best gate ever.

Yeah but thats a very rich market and a special event that doesnt happen often, same with a Sweden card.

US fight nights depending on the market and the day, a weekday usually does around 300-400k gates.
 
Yeah but thats a very rich market and a special event that doesnt happen often, same with a Sweden card.

US fight nights depending on the market and the day, a weekday usually does around 300-400k gates.
US fightnight cards are different. They can have a huge range at the gate. International fightnight cards on fightpass typically do better. I can't even find Bellator attendance numbers 90% of the time let alone the gate.
 
Those saying Bellator is going to "stack" it realize that Irvin vs Ward was announced. And in that article it states it is the start of the Middleweight tourney.

So it will be interesting now to see if knowing they are going against UFC if they completely change plans or not.

But other then potentially ratings, this isn't a battle. As MMA fans most the fans crossover.

We will all end up switching back and forth between them. Heck Bellator may end before UFC is on FS1.
 
One thing is for damn sure...

it will be very interesting to see what each organization does with the date.

Looking at the UFCs schedule, I don't expect a 3rd rate card, but ofcourse don't expect a 1st rate one either...

Viacom and Bellator could see this as a way to solidify its standing as a real UFC competitor... Is it worth making the investment of dropping a Tito Ortiz or Rampage Jackson on the card? Maybe...

Something just occured to me, and maybe I'm overthinking a bit....

This could be like a chess game. UFC puts that card out, fulling expecting Bellator to load up, sacrificing potential PPV matches so they can beat UFC one night in the ratings. UFC puts out just an average old FN card and loses the battle but Bellator has sacrificed something bigger.

This way they can hurt a Bellator PPV without actually programming anything against it.
 
Something just occured to me, and maybe I'm overthinking a bit....

This could be like a chess game. UFC puts that card out, fulling expecting Bellator to load up, sacrificing potential PPV matches so they can beat UFC one night in the ratings. UFC puts out just an average old FN card and loses the battle but Bellator has sacrificed something bigger.

This way they can hurt a Bellator PPV without actually programming anything against it.

Bellator won't do another PPV until the very end of the season. They had Rampage open season 10 and fight on the PPV. Theu could do the same for season 11.
 
If they put Michael Page on that bitch it's a done deal.
 
Bellator won't do another PPV until the very end of the season. They had Rampage open season 10 and fight on the PPV. Theu could do the same for season 11.

Bingo

Curran vs Pitbull
Jackson vs Titties
Kongo vs Ethrington
Thompson vs Lashley 2
Page vs Riggs

:O
 
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Bingo

Curran vs Pitbull
Jackson vs Titties
Kongo vs Ethrington or Johnson
Thompson vs Lashley 2
Page vs Riggs or WarMachine

:O

People really don't want to see these fights, do they?

you'd have to be crazy not to want to see those fights. Etherington should face Butler though. They were trying to set up Kongo vs Johnson before too so that's a good fight. And Lashley vs Thompson 2 is a fight a lot of people want to see and need to happen. Lashley got screwed and it was a pretty good fight. Good scrambles nice flurrys a lot of chances to finish the fight. I expect much of the same from the second.

It's the MW tourney though so those fights won't happen on this card. and titties is employed by mfc so that won't happen but toney is a possibility. still don't want that fight either. The other fights would just be insanely good
 
Ufc counterprogramming them right down to putting the card on nearby. I think bellator is gonna get brutal ratings that night regardless of who they have fighting on it that night. Maybe they should stick with the brennan ward fight, load it up with locals who have a hometown fanbase, and do an invasion thing similar to dx with the megaphones outside nitro at the ufc event and broadcast it between fights on spike.

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Yes, it's been confirmed by several fighters on the UG and it was brought to fans attention when the guy who was going to fight Brian Rogers refused to fight because he was only gonna get paid $400 because he didn't sell enough tickets.

Apparently it's in their contract like "$1000 for the fight, unless you don't sell 150 tickets than it's docked to 50% of that purse."

That's basically the gist of it, even well known guys like Ben Saunders claim they had this in their contract. It's bush league.

"The UFC is disgusting! They should pay their fighters more! Boycott!"

...said no Bellator fighter ever, as he salivated over an $8k/$8k contract during his door-to-door ticket sales campaign.
 
UFC should do Reem vs Stipe as no. 1 contender. Bellator could do King Mo vs Tito or Wand/Tito if Wand gets cut from UFC.
 
UFC should do

Mighty Mouse/Dodson Fly title if both win next fights and healthy
Reem/Stipe

or if they dont want to go title fight then do Reem/JDS main event.

UFC wins right there if they do that, dont care what Bellator puts on their card.
 
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