Ufc sabotages lower weight class ppvs

Any time huge draws (Conor, Ronda, gsp, Lesnar) are on a ppv it’s stacked so heavy it’s mind blowing.

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You're just butthurt manlets are not drawls. 99% people who bought May Mac can't name a single person on the undercard. Didn't stop it from doing 4+ million PPVs.
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Louis dropping truth bombs. It sucks because that was a good card, but it’s true.
 
It would do more buys if all the shertards stopped their illegal streaming :)

No kidding. I don’t understand how people who get on an mma forum that have a passion for this sport and even defend fighter pay decide they don’t want to pay for something they like and illegal stream instead.
I want to believe they are just poor bums instead of just fucked up people.
 
very clear any time a smaller weight class headlines a ppv that ufc fills it with shit fights like a free fight. Any time huge draws (Conor, Ronda, gsp, Lesnar) are on a ppv it’s stacked so heavy it’s mind blowing. Now we have an awesome main event, solid co main, and the rest is a free fight card essentially. It should be criminal how the ufc uses this type of tactic to keep lower weight classes down in contract talks, because obviously this fight isn’t gonna sell more than 150k. Shame.


The ufc will use this ppv as way to show tj and dj that they will fight for no increase in pay.

Bullshit. They stack cards with bigger headliners because it gives exposure to the guys on the undercard. There's no point in stacking a card headlined by MM et al because when you do, no one watches, and those fights get wasted.

It's not like they haven't tried...

UFC 191 had Arlovski v Mir and Rumble v Manuwa... but with MM v Dodson headlining, it only got 115 K PPV buys. You take MM v Dodson off that card altogether, move the HW or LHW to the headliner, and you pick up an extra 50 K buys, minimum.

Ditto for UFC 186 which did 125 K with Rampage and Bisping both fighting on the main card, but headlined by MM.

Ditto for UFC 174, which had Rory v Woodley as the co-main, and only did 115 k PPV with MM headlining.

Hell, UFC 178 was stacked to the gills (Yoel, Cerrone, Alvarez, Conor, Poirier, Cruz, etc all fought on that card) and only got 205 K PPV buys with MM headlining.

The light guys are box office poison. If you put guys who are half way compelling on a card headlined by the smaller weight classes, you're pissing away the opportunity to make them known.
 
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