UFC vs Mayweather-Pacquiao

[JLBlades]

Next week is arguably the biggest rematch ever in UFC history between Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman.

If Floyd Mayweather announced tomorrow he is fighting Manny Pacquiao the same night what wins in PPV? (If someone knows of a bigger fight that could go in there in place of Floyd-Manny they can suggest it foolishly)
(No sure how to make a poll)

How many sales does it get?

[Mike D]

What wins in PPV? Are you f**king serious bro???

[TonitosWay]

This a serious question?

UFC main events average 500k if I'm not mistaken; so I'll be generous and give it 1mil buys. And in turn says that Alvarez-Mayweather II does 200 to 300k more with a stacked undercard.

Edit: Official reports estimate to fall anywhere between 500 and 800k so I was a little too generous.

[toooooool]

Chris who?

[croz]

Well the UFC is a dying sport which is clearly shown in their TV ratings and PPV buys which have plummeted drastically. Their heavyweight champ for example isn't able to pull more PPV buys than a welterweight like Tim Bradley. Once GSP is out of the picture the UFC's yearly PPV buys are expected to fall drastically yet again. Their ratings on the main FOX network have also collapsed drastically going nowhere but down.

The other fight Silva vs Sonnen 2 was previously expected to break PPV records, instead it did 900k international buys. The UFC have not broken 1 million buys in a long time now. They may in fact be lucky to break even 1 million with this fight. Sonnen was a huge draw in their fight, he made it what it was. This guy Weidman has no personality. He's just another faceless fighter.

May vs Oscar did 2.6 million domestic buys. Canelo vs Pac did 2.3 million domestic buys.

Lesnar vs Mir with GSP on the undercard did 1.6 million international buys. Now given that do you really see Silva vs Weidman even getting close to 2 million.

Here's a fact for you, if May vs Canelo can hit 2.2 million buys then May vs Pac will still **** the holy hell out of any PPV in history. Canelo was nowhere near the popularity level of Pac. It had nowhere near the level of hype Pac vs May does.

Let me put it to you this way: if the UFC put their biggest draws: Jon Jones (400k buy average), Silva (500k buy average) and JDS (400k buy average) on the same card they still wouldn't beat May vs Canelo's numbers, let alone Pac vs May. FFS the UFC put their two biggest heavyweights on FOX yet they got TV ratings in the same range as a typical episode of COPS.

[way2strong]

bad karma dana white use to swear all day that boxing was the dying sport

[Check_hooks]

I'd rather see the Jon Jones vs Gustoffeson (sp?) rematch

[iLovesoccermoms]

what did it mean when shaefer wanted audited numbers from dana?? does that mean that even the 1.6 for ufc 100 was just from ufc's mouth??

[ElChino]

Ill rather see UFC vs WWE in a royal rumble

that be probably break 1mill buys thanks to WWE

[CLUE]

UFC's PPV King GSP just did 650k. And its probably even lower than reported.