True. At least with national primetime sports broadcast (aka what's going to be the numbered events) you're heavily incentivized to put on good events because the advertising slots and revenues are lucrative.They're not stacking the majority of the numbered cards now for the most part, so whatever incentive they have now given how low the PPV sales have been in recent years.
How many airlines does AA compete with? Hundreds, if not thousands.
How many motors does Yamaha compete with? Thousands, if not tens of thousands.
How many hotels does Wyndham compete with? Many thousands and tens of thousands worldwide.
How many MMA promotions does the UFC compete with? Zero.
It's a correct evaluation for a market monopoly which isn't one in name only IMO
You think they are going to take that money out in bullion tomorrow and personally hand it over to Dana? It's over 7 years.That would make sense if there weren't plenty of other competing industries who have high value. $8 billion sounds like an overpayment to basically get in the live sports business since Amazon and Fox have NFL, ESPN/ABC have College Football and NBC is getting NBA back. I would have to look but my guess would be CBS/Paramount has the weakest sports line up year round. So this is a play to stay competitive but that doesn't necessarily make it a correct valuation. $8 billion dollars and most casuals can't name 3 recently active fighters.......SMH.
That still doesn't explain why the UFC is worth $8 billion when their most marketable stars are retired or have not fought in years. I know it's not apples to apples but based on these valuations UFC is more valuable than companies like American Airlines, Yamaha Motors and Wyndham Hotels. All of these are also worldwide. It's good for the company and props to them and maybe even the consumer but I tend to think $8 billion is a very aggressive overpay for a company whose best years were arguably in the mid 2010's. I would think the only reason for that amount is because they have a monopoly on the high level MMA space.
Have you been watching the last few years? There have been no stacked cards.and what incentive do they have to stack the numbered cards like they do with the PPVs?
@LuthienAnything is better than the PPV model which was $80 for the PPV and on top of that 10.99 sub to ESPN+ , it was criminally expensive.
Yeah. But you always have that one a**holeIm in the minority, but i enjoy watching ufc at bars. I wonder how that will work now cuz every bar could potentially host it.