Conor is light years ahead of Floyd in PPV performance

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Lets see Connor go to Bellator and sell the PPV on his own name alone...Ok then...yeah UFC been laying down the platform for this hype-job dont get it twisted ; Money-Mayweather is his own boss he worked and made his own brand not like Mcccccccgrrrrrrgorrrrr.

[-Kev-]

MMA fighters have short careers, they fight better opponents faster, and in the UFC the star earns a lot less than the stars in boxing.

Floyd made more money off of the Berto flop than McGregor made from his highest selling PPV. FMJ earned $32 million guaranteed from Berto fight.

McGregor ended up making $15 million WITH sponsorship money, bonuses, guarantee, and PPV share from his best PPV UFC 202.

Floyd's most comparable PPV to McGegor's best PPV was vs Cotto (1.5 million) where he was guaranteed $45 million dollars.

[Robbie Barrett]

Lets see Connor go to Bellator and sell the PPV on his own name alone...Ok then...yeah UFC been laying down the platform for this hype-job dont get it twisted ; Money-Mayweather is his own boss he worked and made his own brand not like Mcccccccgrrrrrrgorrrrr.

Exactly UFC is like WWE PPVs, people are buying the event. They aren't paying just for McGregor.

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UFC cards are stacked. You are paying for quality fights throughout the event not just the McGregor fight. McGregor adds a few hundred thousand but those UFC events sell well without him.

There you go. Its the brand off the blood that all those oldschool fighters created....which makes me wonder if they can afford to retire now considering the new guys are crying about their pay so imagine what those pioneers must of made? what a joke!!! even more pathetic is how ****** the fanboys are about this **** sport.

[KLockard23]

Exactly UFC is like WWE PPVs, people are buying the event. They aren't paying just for McGregor.

The vast majority are. "Stacked cards" only mean something to hardcore fans, casuals pay to see stars. That's McGregor (and Rousey, to a lesser extent.)

[gmc_rfc_06]

McGregor-Mendes (189) sold 825,000.
McGregor-Aldo (194) sold 1.2million
McGregor-Alvarez (205) sold 1.3million

The actual numbers are readily available, not the numbers Dana White tells people.

Anyway, Mayweather has sold over 2million twice and over 4.5million for one fight.

Conor is the biggest star in UFC history, but he's not close to Mayweather level in terms of buys or earnings.

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The vast majority are. "Stacked cards" only mean something to hardcore fans, casuals pay to see stars. That's McGregor (and Rousey, to a lesser extent.)

Somehow I doubt that the public would be ****** enough just to buy a card where only Rousey was fighting vs. some random lesbian without the undercard.

[KLockard23]

Somehow I doubt that the public would be ****** enough just to buy a card where only Rousey was fighting vs. some random lesbian without the undercard.

It's called the main event for a reason. When the average PPV without a star like McGregor does 200,000-350,000 and the average PPV with McGregor does at least one million or more, then the reason is obvious.

[Robbie Barrett]

The vast majority are. "Stacked cards" only mean something to hardcore fans, casuals pay to see stars. That's McGregor (and Rousey, to a lesser extent.)

Imagine a PPV with fights like Ward-Kovalev, Golovkin-Jacobs and Spence-Brook on the same card. None of those fights alone would sell over 300k, but an event with them all on would easily.

[KLockard23]

Imagine a PPV with fights like Ward-Kovalev, Golovkin-Jacobs and Spence-Brook on the same card. None of those fights alone would sell over 300k, but an event with them all on would easily.

Debateable. Besides, you know a UFC card like that? The 205 card in New York was the first one with three championship fights and was touted as the most stacked card in the company's history and yet did around 300,000 less buys than Conor/Diaz 2. The average UFC card without Conor or Rousey doesn't even hit 300k or if it does, it just barely does.