Drop in PPV buys is exactly why the UFC needs Brock n GSP

[TBMMA09]

lesnar averages around 900 k every card he headlines and GSP averages around 800 k. If I am Dana White i am offering them whatever contracts they want period. End of discussion

 

[Kalmah]

Neither fight any more.

 

[VAfan]

nah, they just need cm punk. :wink:

 

[surgeyou1]

Brock vs GSP

2 million buys confirmed

 

[Cooliox]

well they've got more television deals now, spreading across the globe.

Fox $100m/year, Globo $60m/year... definitely got some money from the UK and Scandinavia... asian deals.

Basically, ppv is for the US

 

[lelouch]

Jones vs Cormier did between 740,000 and 820,000 buys and the price is not the same as before. If they lower the price they would easily done a million.

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

I wonder how much Brock's drawing value will diminish after he's on a six-fight losing streak.

But he'll probably help out the UFC plenty anyway if they keep matching him up with other "veterans," IE:

Lesnar vs. JDS
Lesnar vs. Mir III
Lesnar vs. Barnett
Lesnar vs. Cro Cop
Lesnar vs. Big Nog
Lesnar vs. Arlovski

 

[matt35750]

UFC was a fad and it's time is done.

 

[trblesome1]

Dana shit on GSP too much hope he never makes him another cent

 

[Fujita]

Both don't want to fight.

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Both don't want to fight.

Brock does

 

[rjmbrd]

Brock vs Overeem was his last showing in the UFC and also his worst PPV buyrate at 535k.

After Cain trashed him so easily I believe interested waned. Obviously Brock could still do good compared to the abysmal PPV numbers (in the aggregate) we've seen the last few years, but I don't think he would return to huge numbers.

By any measure his return fight with a marquee guy at the time in Ovreem should have been a huge deal, but it just wasn't. 535k buys is very pedestrian for such a high profile fight at heavyweight.

In any event the UFC cannot afford to let Brock go to Bellator, and both sides will reportedly open up their check book to get him.

 

[FoghornLeghorn]

Maybe.....Brock....vs GSP?

Brock vs GSP in..... Canada?

WAIT. I got it. BROCK VS GSP on the Canadian Border. RIGHT on the border, GSP gets Blue Corner which is the Canadian half of the octagon. Brock gets Red Corner, which will be the UFC half.

That'll fix the PPV's

 

[Cooliox]

Remember when GOAT Machida wanted to fight Brock?

 

[Kneeuinthenutz]

Brock does

Correction.

Brock wants to beat people up. The whole "fighting" thing is not something he wants any part of.

 

[Char Jawz]

UFC was a fad and it's time is done.

Which is why you just signed up for Sherdog last year. Derp

 

[Char Jawz]

Remember when GOAT Machida wanted to fight Brock?

Oh yeah, during the long lived "Machida Era", lol. I'm a Machida fan from way back, but your post made me laugh remembering that

 

[ligthandshadow]

Neither fight any more.

This is it, basically.
Brock doesn't need the UFC.
GSP doesn't need to fight anymore.

 

[ggtopdog]

Lol they have had two ppvs in a row do North of 600k

 

[matt35750]

Which is why you just signed up for Sherdog last year. Derp

I have been watching MMA since 2005. DERP