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Despite rumors that the show had grossly underperformed, RingTV.com reports that the September 17 pay-per-view event featuring the Mayweather vs Ortiz main event sold 1.25 million pay-per-views, and generated $78,440,000 in pay-per-view revenue, making it the second-biggest non-heavyweight event ever in terms of the revenue generated by the sales of the show.

The biggest, of course, is Mayweather's 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya, which came in at an enormous $136,853,700. Mayweather vs Ortiz bumps Mayweather vs Mosley ($78,330,000) down to third place.

what's a typical UFC pay-per-view buy rate? about 100,000?

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boxing has a 100 year head start, and the structure of the organizations are different

in time...in time

umm.. people are claiming that MMA has ALREADY supplanted boxing.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 11/21/11 at 10:20 am to Rohan2Reed

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people are claiming that MMA has ALREADY supplanted boxing.

mostly boxing fans are doing that in this thread. they're using it as the excuse why boxing is on the decline

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Posted by KBeezy

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Posted on 11/21/11 at 10:28 am to Rohan2Reed

Actually, top Mma guys also get a cut of the PPV sales

Someone like GSP gets 250k to fight, 150k win bonus, and 1$ for every PPV buy up to 500k, and 1.25$ or 1.50$ for everything over 500k

So he pulls about $1.7M a fight. Nothing Like top boxing of course, but some guys do make pretty good money.

And on the lower and mid level, the money is about the same.

Also just to clarify in case

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Don't watch either MMA or UFC.

Mma is the sport, UFC is a league. Like football and NFL

ETA, I am a huge boxing fan and would love to see a return to the glory years. At least some more interesting bouts.

This post was edited on 11/21/11 at 10:30 am

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Posted by Carlton Banks

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Posted on 11/21/11 at 2:20 pm to Rohan2Reed

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what's a typical UFC pay-per-view buy rate? about 100,000?

100,000?

For some perspective, UFC 100 did 1.6 million buys.

Georges St-Pierre routinely pulls in 800,000 to 1 million buys.

Brock Lesnar routinely pulls in around 1 million + buys.

I'd say the UFC probably averages around 400,000 buys.

Low-Tier UFC PPV's are around 250,000

Medium-Tier is around 400,000

Upper medium is around 600,000

Upper tier is around 800,000

Card of the year tier is 1,000,000 +

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