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It is also presumed that Lobov will not be getting any sort of show money following his removal from UFC 223. The UFC released a statement Thursday night saying everyone involved in the McGregor incident, including McGregor and Lobov, will not be welcome at UFC 223 on Saturday night.
“All the guys that ended up not getting fights are gonna get paid. They’ll all get paid for not getting fights,” White said. “Just their show. We don’t have that much money.
Is that why they are still stingy as fuck compared to the Fertitta days?
Why go public and release all the financial stuff? They're fucking the fighters hard right now, why have people see that?
Sure. It ain't easy being a monopoly.
At any rate, it's less a comparison of team sports v MMA and more a comparison of mainstream sports v fringe shit.
PPVs aren’t selling, but the company is somehow worth more? Sounds like cost slashing to me.
The Zuffa-led UFC was extremely bloated (outside of fighter pay, of course). For the time being (and for at least the immediate future), the UFC is going to be a money-printing machine, regardless of what I think is a rather clear stagnation in the actual popularity of the sport. Promotional competition to the UFC has increasingly shown how little a threat they pose, as well, so for the foreseeable future, barring some massive political shift in the current outlook on anti-trust legislation (which is exceptionally unlikely in the immediate future), the UFC is going to be quite profitable. I wouldn't expect massive increases from here on out, though. Most of these gains seem to have been due to the fact that WME is just far more adept at making money with the promotion than Zuffa was, as well as the securing of new TV deals (and the arrows on MMA viewership on TV aren't necessarily positive, even relative to declines in most sports, so future TV or streaming deals might not be so lucrative).
The positive financial outlook of the UFC shouldn't necessarily be conflated with a positive outlook for the health of the sport. I'm not even talking about all the people who whine about social media beefs and the erosion of a meaningful competitive structure within the promotion, I'm talking about general viewership, the development of a meaningful amateur infrastructure (domestically and internationally), and the growing public concern with head injuries (which is something all contact sports are going to have to deal with over the next several decades).
its fascinating to see how MMA interest is down & UFC & now most likely Bellator are up.
Its incredible how things have changed.
Bellator was in the red & then DAZN needed some MMA & now they should be in the black.
They really didn't do anything different, just said "yes" to DAZN.
That DAZN deal was gold for bellator. i think the mma interest is down because not everyone can watch other promotions where the UFC and Bellator are the most known AND they don't have known guys like Mcg, Rory, Chael, Rampage, TJ and others.