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You’re going off the pre-ESPN numbers there. Now ALL the money from PPV buys goes to ESPN and the UFC gets paid a flat rate as if the PPV sold 500k buys. Even if it sells 3 million buy the UFC gets paid the same if it sol 100k buys.Say it does 2 mill PPVs that's $120 mill. Khabib vs Conor was 2.4 mill and it won't do that much.
There's no way Conor gets an $80 mill chunk of that as the UFC doesn't even get that much themselves.
Cowboy is probably on the flat $2 mill reported.
This is part of what caused a hold up with Brock coming back. And continues to hold up the big sellers, Conor, brock, GSP etc... the guys who can regularly sell over 500k.
so nowadays if a star is still getting a PPV cut, it’s based off 500k buys and that’s it.