Boxing match shatters UFC's highest gate record

[Corrado Soprano]

Last Saturday's boxing match between Tank Davis & Ryan Garcia did 1.2 million PPV buys and had a gate of $22.8 million

The highly-anticipated boxing clash between Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia reportedly sold over 1.2 million pay-per-views.

Sports Business Journal was among the first to report the latest surrounding the Davis vs. Garcia PPV numbers. SBJ also reports that the gate (ticket sales) was $22.8 million.

The 2 highest UFC's gates were McGregor vs Alvarez in NYC and McGregor vs Khabib in Vegas.

Somewhat surprisingly, Conor McGregor's fight with Eddie Alvarez on November 12th 2016 is currently the biggest live gate in UFC history. The event took place at UFC 205 in Madison Square Garden in New York and brought in $17,700,000 in ticket sales.

Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Conor McGregor at UFC 229 comes in at second place all-time in terms of biggest gates. The fierce rivals squared off on October 6th 2018 and generated $17,200,000 in ticket sales at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.

Both sports are amazing but it's clear that worldwide Boxing is still more popular than MMA. A big Boxing fight will always be bigger than anything MMA can produce. Boxing is filled with more genuine characters while UFC guys play roles like in the WWE.

Source: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/5-biggest-gates-ufc-history

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...psed-12-million-pay-per-view-buys/ar-AA1aohLI

 

[mmainvestigations]

That's why it's smart for Francis Ngannou to jump to boxing, nothing left for him in the UFC.

 

[kfighter]

Inb4 UFC is dying

 

[markg171]

Awfully cynical way to look at the fact that the UFC is both a superior product and a much cheaper one.

I mean, Izzy/Whitter I isn't even on the list of top gates despite the fact that they had 57,127 people in attendance for a $5,470,000 gate. That's $95 a ticket.

 

[Willy Knuckles]

You're goin to get flamed so bad lol Sherdoggers aren't ready for this reality

 

[OldBoy91]

The problem with boxing is that people only care about the main event. According to people who were there, there was only about 1000 people in the arena until the main event was about to start.

In 16 or 17,000 seater that's awful. Doesn't affect the gate because people still sold the place out and turned up for the last fight, but boxing has an awful track record of promoting the undercard.

 

[mjfan23]

Jake Paul vs con man will out do this

 

[sabretitan]

Last Saturday's boxing match between Tank Davis & Ryan Garcia did 1.2 million PPV buys and had a gate of $22.8 million



The 2 highest UFC's gates were McGregor vs Alvarez in NYC and McGregor vs Khabib in Vegas.



Both sports are amazing but it's clear that worldwide Boxing is still more popular than MMA. A big Boxing fight will always be bigger than anything MMA can produce. Boxing is filled with more genuine characters while UFC guys play roles like in the WWE.

Source: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/5-biggest-gates-ufc-history

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...psed-12-million-pay-per-view-buys/ar-AA1aohLI

Thing is, boxing has high numbers maybe twice a year. Where as the ufc has constant hi numbers throughout the year. Huge difference

 

[Fatback96]

I don’t take monetary records that seriously. Inflation will always make the next year’s big fight shatter the previous record.

Amount of PPV and ticket sales are more telling.

 

[listrahtes]

That's why it's smart for Francis Ngannou to jump to boxing, nothing left for him in the UFC.

Have you looked at other boxing events? Or what the undercard fighters earn on huge boxing cards? Ngannou is lightyears away from getting remotely close to these numbers. He can be very very happy getting what UFC offered him but even that I highly doubt. Ngannou is a nobody in boxing.

 

[The XL]

Impressive gate, but the PPV buyrate, while very good, isn't insane or anything

 

[mmainvestigations]

Have you looked at other boxing events? Or what the undercard fighters earn on huge boxing cards? Ngannou is lightyears away from getting remotely close to these numbers. He can be very very happy getting what UFC offered him but even that I highly doubt. Ngannou is a nobody in boxing.

"in boxing"... kind of missing the point. The whole point of the event is crossover appeal. MMA's baddest HW vs. the HW boxing champ, 4 oz gloves, either party can get knocked out in seconds

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[Deleted member 587672]

The problem with boxing is that people only care about the main event. According to people who were there, there was only about 1000 people in the arena until the main event was about to start.

In 16 or 17,000 seater that's awful. Doesn't affect the gate because people still sold the place out and turned up for the last fight, but boxing has an awful track record of promoting the undercard.

Yes and UFC has an awful track record of overpromoting the undercard.

 

[Willy Knuckles]

Awfully cynical way to look at the fact that the UFC is both a superior product and a much cheaper one.

I mean, Izzy/Whitter I isn't even on the list of top gates despite the fact that they had 57,127 people in attendance for a $5,470,000 gate. That's $95 a ticket.

They don't choose to gift UFC fans with cheap tickets lol, it's called supply a demand an essential part of whoever manages their revenues job

 

[egk]

The problem with boxing is that people only care about the main event. According to people who were there, there was only about 1000 people in the arena until the main event was about to start.

In 16 or 17,000 seater that's awful. Doesn't affect the gate because people still sold the place out and turned up for the last fight, but boxing has an awful track record of promoting the undercard.

The problem is the UFC is already going in that same direction. Only hardcore fans give a shit about most of the cards and it's getting worse. We can see how empty the places often are for the prelims at many UFC events. I've been following MMA for a lot longer than my Sherdog join date and I barely recognize most of the fighters on early prelims now. Back in the day when we saw big cards every 3 months or so it was different. Now the product is often so watered down I'm finding myself only caring about the main event and a few other fights on the card. I doubt i'm alone.

 

[Willy Knuckles]

Impressive gate, but the PPV buyrate, while very good, isn't insane or anything

It wasn't even for a belt lol, what non title fight has ever sold that much for the UFC?

 

[listrahtes]

"in boxing"... kind of missing the point. The whole point of the event is crossover appeal. MMA's baddest HW vs. the HW boxing champ, 4 oz gloves, either party can get knocked out in seconds

and hows that working out for him? Ngannou isnt some famous mma champ like McGregor back then. Not many boxing fans even know him and he sucks at boxing. Thats why not one of the champs even thinks about him. They can all make more money fighting each other.

Only one remotely possible is Fury. He has developed serious duckeritis lately and might look for an easy payday but even there I doubt it and he also has a fight lined up.

 

[avenue94]

Awfully cynical way to look at the fact that the UFC is both a superior product and a much cheaper one.

I mean, Izzy/Whitter I isn't even on the list of top gates despite the fact that they had 57,127 people in attendance for a $5,470,000 gate. That's $95 a ticket.

You say that like the UFC hasn't ridiculously hiked event prices since WME took over.

I don’t take monetary records that seriously. Inflation will always make the next year’s big fight shatter the previous record.

Amount of PPV and ticket sales are more telling.

Inflation adjusted it's among the top 25 or so biggest combat sports events in gross revenue. It's no joke. Also fyi since most people don't know this, most mega UFC or boxing events today pale in magnitude to old boxing events.

Impressive gate, but the PPV buyrate, while very good, isn't insane or anything

1.2 million off two draws in effectively their first big fight is impressive anyway to cut it. There's only a handful of boxers and mma fighters ever who have had bigger PPV debuts.

It doesn't matter if it's boxing or mma, fans have this bizarre idea that breaking a million PPV buys is somehow routine and not almost 9 figure revenue.

 

[OldBoy91]

The problem is the UFC is already going in that same direction. Only hardcore fans give a shit about most of the cards and it's getting worse. We can see how empty the places often are for the prelims at many UFC events. I've been following MMA for a lot longer than my Sherdog join date and I barely recognize most of the fighters on early prelims now. Back in the day when we saw big cards every 3 months or so it was different. Now the product is often so watered down I'm finding myself only caring about the main event and a few other fights on the card. I doubt i'm alone.

The issue here is comparing the entire sport of boxing to the UFC, a single organisation within the sport of MMA.

It would be unfair to expect the UFC to have all of the best/biggest name fighters in the sport under their banner, all making every single card stacked.

It would be like expecting every single world champion and ranked fighter within every organising body to be signed to top rank or goldenboy and all have them compete on the same cards.

Even then it isn't really comparable. MmMa fans still usually care about multiple fights on a card, eve if it is just fights in the main card. Boxing it tends to be all about the single fight at the top of the bill and nothing else. To the point where boxing fans will ask you the next day "did you see the fight?". The fight. Singular.

Whatever you want to say about the UFC every fight night in the PBP threads you will always see MMA fans saying stuff like "looking forward to a fun night of fights."

That's the difference, many MMA fans will watch a fight between two guys they are relatively unfamiliar with, boxing fans will only watch the marquee matchup, even if the fights before it are pretty great.