Miocic vs. Cormier pay-per-view estimates come in at 380,000 buys

[Verace]

https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/7/...view-numbers-and-what-it-says-about-the-sport

"According to industry sources, the current estimate for UFC 226 on pay-per-view is 380,000 buys"

"On one hand, the number feels disappointing. You had a rare champion vs. champion battle in the two heaviest weight classes, and a great story with Daniel Cormier’s quest to become a genuine legend of the sport."

"Granted, UFC 226 was hurt significantly when the Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega featherweight title fight fell through. Still, it’s hard to believe that fight would have boosted the show to the 500,000 plus level that was hoped for."

"The irony is that Cormier is a favorite of the MMA media, works hard at promoting his fights and understands that aspect of the game that many fighters don’t. "

 

[joeyjoejoe]

I expected bigger numbers from an official champ vs champ fight, I’ll admit fight week seemed pretty tame for 226 though.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Compared to some of the other recent shite numbers, that's not as horrific as it could have been.

 

[Fatback96]

It's bc neither DC or Stipe are actual PPV draws. They're great fighters, but they did little to no promotion for this event.

 

[The Domin8or]

https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/7/...view-numbers-and-what-it-says-about-the-sport

"According to industry sources, the current estimate for UFC 226 on pay-per-view is 380,000 buys"

"On one hand, the number feels disappointing. You had a rare champion vs. champion battle in the two heaviest weight classes, and a great story with Daniel Cormier’s quest to become a genuine legend of the sport."

"Granted, UFC 226 was hurt significantly when the Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega featherweight title fight fell through. Still, it’s hard to believe that fight would have boosted the show to the 500,000 plus level that was hoped for."

"The irony is that Cormier is a favorite of the MMA media, works hard at promoting his fights and understands that aspect of the game that many fighters don’t. "

LOL cyborg and holm sold this much PPV

UFC needs conor so bad right now

 

[PlayTheGame]

MMA has no household names currently, if we talk about active fighters. Fact.

 

[Otto!]

Compared to some of the other recent shite numbers, that's not as horrific as it could have been.

This. Looks like low numbers are the new normal.

DC vs Brock will do bigger numbers.

 

[sonhow]

Isn't that best numbers of the whole year?

 

[Jim Gilmore]

Considering:

• Stipe mumbles and refuses to ever say anything compelling
• DC looks fat and unimpressive to mainstream fans
• Max pulling out
• PED City refusing to fight even though Frankie game him his shot

380k is pretty impressive.

 

[Kaiokenrye24]

Considering:

• Stipe mumbles and refuses to ever say anything compelling
• DC looks fat and unimpressive to mainstream fans
• Max pulling out
• PED City refusing to fight even though Frankie game him his shot

380k is pretty impressive.

Max pulling out hurt a lot

 

[Soul On Ice]

No one on the card was a draw and none of the fights had any drama attached to them
Normal

 

[Verace]

This. Looks like low numbers are the new normal.

DC vs Brock will do bigger numbers.

Im starting to fear that neither brock nor conor will be able to do huge numbers. Shit is getting scary.

Hope im wrong... but seems like everybody is banking all their savings in conor/brock, while there is no way to tell for real. This ride is definitely trending down and down each month that passes...

What happens when they dont break bank like they were expecting?

 

[Cooliox]

Estimates that are based on getting clickbait headlines for Dave Meltzer

You guys are welcomed to discuss it as if it was fact, or even remotely accurate... but the only fact here is that it is bullshit.

Chael Sonnel has openly stated that Dave Meltzer's predictions are "way off" for the events that Chael got a ppv cut off.

Just keep that in mind

 

[patferrari]

Considering:

• Stipe mumbles and refuses to ever say anything compelling
• DC looks fat and unimpressive to mainstream fans
• Max pulling out
• PED City refusing to fight even though Frankie game him his shot

380k is pretty impressive.

if you still blame him for not wanting to fight for a fake belt after what they did to cody idk what to tell yah. lol

 

[Dbreiden83080]

Boy that is shit..

Conor Bless..

 

[Verace]

Compared to some of the other recent shite numbers, that's not as horrific as it could have been.

Arm Barbarians reaction:

damn bro... i like your attempt at trying to have a positive outlook, but really, those numbers are not good.

It's bc neither DC or Stipe are actual PPV draws. They're great fighters, but they did little to no promotion for this event.

Quite frankly, the UFC themselves didnt do much to try and promote this fight. Which was very suprising to me.
I even made a thread pointing this out a week before the event.

 

[LouisBolanos]

380k in 2018 when the baseline is 85k is the equivalent of 760k in 2012 when the baseline was 180k (basically double). It's a very good number.

 

[Otto!]

Im starting to fear that neither brock nor conor will be able to do huge numbers. Shit is getting scary.

Hope im wrong... but seems like everybody is banking all their savings in conor/brock, while there is no way to tell for real. This ride is definitely trending down and down each month that passes...

What happens when they dont break bank like they were expecting?

Agree. They created that with stale cards and putting all their marketing efforts on a couple of stars. One got publicly labelLed as a fraud and rage quit, and the other one is not fighting.

 

[bufetadanacara]

Probably low numbers because everybody just streams it now. 226 wasn't that bad but the cards are just usually shit quality so people get used to not paying.

I bought every one for over 10 years, spent thousands. I rarely pay for them now. Any WMMA on the card is an automatic disqualification.

 

[Mormont]

Here is the bottom line, heat sells. There was no heat between Miocic/DC, hence the lower numbers.

Woodley/Colby on paper doesn't do more than 200k. but with the added heat, I think such a fight was going to be around 300k.