2007 PPV Buys: Boxing, MMA, Professional Wrestling

The source for these is 31st December edition of, Dave Meltzer’s, Wrestling Observer. Normally the list he does runs from December to November, hence the inclusion of the Ortiz/Liddell. An exception has been made and the number for Mayweather/Hatton is included in this list. The UFC’s December ’07 show will be in the 2008 list. There's also no number for the UFC’s November show, which was headlined by Bisping Vs Evans. According to a previous Melzter report that the November show out performed the company’s exceptions. Meltzer says of this show, with regards to this list… …And keep in mind we don’t have a number for the UFC’s November show with Bisping Vs Evans, but the belief is it cracked top 15, which would knock Rumble out of the list… Anyway... Estimate North American PPV Numbers - 2,400,000 – Oscar De Lay Hoya Vs Floyd Mayweather - 1,050,000 – Chuck Liddell Vs Tito Ortiz (Took place in December of last year) - 850,000 – Floyd Mayweather Vs Ricky Hatton (actually took place in December of this year which we wouldn’t normally count) - 760,000 WWE Wrestlemania: Vince McMahon Vs Donald Trump - 675,000 Chuck Liddell Vs Quinton Jackson - 540,000 Tim Sylvia Vs Randy Couture - 520,0010 Randy Couture Vs Gabriel Gonzaga - 475,000 Chuck Liddell Vs Keith Jardine - 425,000 Tito Ortiz Vs Rashad Evans - 400,000 Anderson Silva Vs Travis Lutter - 400,000 George St Pierre Vs Matt Serra - 350,000 Manny Pacquioa Vs Marco Antonio Barrera - 344,000 WWE Summerslam: John Cena Vs Randy Orton - 340,000 Miguel Cotto Vs Shane Mosley - 325,000 Anderson Silva Vs Rich Franklin - 314,000 WWE Royal Rumble: John Cena Vs Umaga - 305,000 Bernard Hopkins Vs Winky Wright - 300,000 Fernando Vargas Vs Ricardo Mayorga - 225,000 Marco Antonio Barrera Vs Juan Manuel Marquez - 225,000 Miguel Cotto Vs Zab Judah - 200,000 Manny Pacquioa Vs Jorge Solis - 200,000 Rich Franklin Vs Yushin Okami - 163,000 WWE No Mercy: (No announced main event other than guaranteed WWE title charge) - 151,000 WWE Vengeance: John Cena Vs Mick Foley Vs Randy Orton Vs King Booker Vs Bobby Lashley - 150,000 WWE Judgement Day John Cena Vs Great Kahli - 147,000 WWE Great American Bash: John Cena Vs Bobby Lashley - 146,000 WWE Armageddon Batista & Cena Vs Finlay & Booker - 141,000 WWE New Years Revolution: John Cena Vs Umaga - 140,000 WWE No Way Out: Cena & Michaels Vs Undertaker & Batista - 134,000 WWE Unforgiven: John Cena Vs Randy Orton - 120,000 WWE Backlash: Cena Vs Michaels Vs Orton Vs Edge - 118,000 WWE Cyber Sunday: Undertaker Vs Batista - 115,000 WWE One Night Stand: John Cena Vs Great Kahli - 100,000 Erik Morales Vs David Diaz - 75,000 Evander Holyfield Vs Sultan Ibragimov - 70,000 Julio Caesar Chaves Jr. Vs Ray Sanchez - 55,000 WWE December to Dismember: Elimination Chamber - 40,000 Pride Second Coming: Dan Henderson Vs Wanderlei Silva - 36,000 TNA Destination X: Samoa Joe Vs Christian Cage - 36,000 TNA Bound For Glory: Sting Vs Kurt Angle - 35,000 TNA Turning Point: Samao Joe Vs Kurt Angle - 35,000 TNA Lockdown: Team Angle Vs Team Cage - 35,000 K-1 Dynamite: Brock Lesnar Vs Kim Min-Soo - 34,000 TNA Final Resolution: Samoa Joe Vs Kurt Angle - 27,000 TNA Genesis: Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash Vs Booker T & Sting - 26,000 TNA Hard Justice: Samoa Joe Vs Kurt Angle - 25,000 Roy Jones Jr. Vs Anthony Hanshaw - 23,000 TNA Against All Odds: Kurt Angle Vs Christian Cage - 22,000 TNA Slammiversary: Kurt Angle Vs Samoa Joe Vs AJ Styles Vs Christian Cage Vs Chris Harris - 21,000 TNA Sacrifice: Kurt Angle Vs Sting Vs Christian Cage - 17,000 TNA No Surrender: Kurt Angle Vs Abyss - 15,000 TNA Victory Road: Kurt Angle & Samoa Joe Vs Team 3-D - 13,000 Bodog Fight: Fedor Emelianenko Vs Matt Lindland Note: Boxing and WWE numbers are based on official numbers released in most cases. Thanks to Mike Sempervive for help on the shows were the numbers were never officially released. Most UFC numbers are based on solid information based on a variety of sources, with only the October number as a rough estimate. UFC does not release buy rate numbers but cable sources and other business sources can get the numbers because they are a big deal. TNA doesn’t release buy rate information. The numbers are very rough estimates based on a variety of information, but because the numbers are small, they are not tracked closely and these are at best rough estimates. Even though Elite EXC is a public company, they never released a PPV number for the Frank Shamrock Vs Phil Baroni show. We received more response to that show than the K-1 show or any TNA shows over the past year, and that would indicate a better number, but my guess is if it was, we’d probably have heard something about it.