bellator ppv to outdraw recent ufc ppv's?

[John Mabrey]

not out of the question, rampage and tito have more star power than any recent ufc ppv headliner recently

is this the beginning of the end for zuffa?

 

[emperor]

You wish, Bjorn.

 

[Zuni]

Have they mentioned what their target for sales are to make it a success?

 

[GusOwnsJones]

Yeah Bellator's first ppv with the only 3 names they have, good bye ufc.

 

[HereticBD]

What's Bellator?

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

you overestimate quintons 'star power' and certainly cheetos

 

[Snuffilmreject]

Nope. Don't get me wrong, i'm looking forward to it, but they won't draw anywhere near recent UFC's.

 

[CC27]

The last 3 UFC PPV all did over 300k, so you think Rampage on a Bellator PPV is gonna do more than Ronda and Jones UFC PPV/

EVEn with the cheaper PPV price it wont do anywhere near that.

 

[PIT FIGHTER]

Yes out of the question.

 

[Da Bombers]

If you take the average ufc ppv buyrate over the last year and a half I think bellator will beat that number tonight. Its a way better card but realistically advertising>product quality so I doubt theyll get the 1 million+ buys that a card of this quality would get under the zuffa banner with its relentless bombardment of 24-7s, commercials, scared journalists spamming stuff out etc.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Have they mentioned what their target for sales are to make it a success?

I think it was 90K with Eddie on the card, with him off it

110K+ = HUGE success
70K = Probably what they need to come out a little ahead.
50K or lower = Just stick to spike TV from now on.

 

[spikemma]

It's going to be interesting I know that. I could see 30,000 buys, but tbh I could also see 200,000 buys.

 

[Meathead Jock]

If you take the average ufc ppv buyrate over the last year and a half I think bellator will beat that number tonight. Its a way better card but realistically advertising>product quality so I doubt theyll get the 1 million+ buys that a card of this quality would get under the zuffa banner with its relentless bombardment of 24-7s, commercials, scared journalists spamming stuff out etc.

So thats what? Roughly 375K? No way this beats that, anything over 100K will be a huge accomplishment, but i'd be thrilled if you were right.

 

[bjdiaz]

No way, I think it'll do around 70,000. I'm still contemplating buying it just to help that number but there's a free marquez fight on hbo tonight so i might just skip it and watch marquez/alvarado

 

[PIT FIGHTER]

If you take the average ufc ppv buyrate over the last year and a half I think bellator will beat that number tonight. Its a way better card but realistically advertising>product quality so I doubt theyll get the 1 million+ buys that a card of this quality would get under the zuffa banner with its relentless bombardment of 24-7s, commercials, scared journalists spamming stuff out etc.

Bombers, you think it beats 250,000 buys? Willing to take a bet?

 

[Tigerknee]

Well I don't think it will do better than UFC but if it does well thats a good start for bellator, I like their price at 35, UFC PPV is way too expensive for the amount of ppvs they have each year

 

[IloveTHIS]

I dont think it breaks 100k

 

[TFanatic]

I'll be genuinely surprised if it breaks 30k

 

[Da Bombers]

Bombers, you think it beats 250,000 buys? Willing to take a bet?

If you post all those #s and we get a fair calculation Ill do a 1 month sig bet. No PI or hurtful to other posters sigs though

 

[MitMcl]

I asked my dad to name all of the MMA fighters he could and he came up with Crocop and Tito Ortiz lol.