Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: UFC is on The Balls of It's Ass, No Marquee Stars Left!

[AdonisCreed]

"...on the balls of its azz." I can honestly say I've never heard that one before.

Me either my friend, and because I've never heard that expression before I'm going to assume Bob made it up himself lol

[Andre_parker1]

What are you talking about it didn't break the ppv record in north america, not even close. It did 875k which is good but nothing crazy. It was the highest of the year for Ufc by far. Most ufc ppv's in 2017 only did 100k-200k which is miserable. Bob didn't put any fights on ppv in 2017 but rest assured Loma and Crawford will both be ppv stars soon. Arum is right Ufc has gone way down and boxing is going up

yea ufc record is what I meant..in a response to bob arum claims that they're going down..boxing performed better than mma last year and I reckon it will again this year

[Carpe Diem]

The problem with the UFC is that all of its stars don't usually live up to their hype. Lesnar, Ronda, McGregor, Jon Jones(cheater), etc have all failed. Anderson Silva and George St Pierre were really great in their prime years, but they couldn't draw flies to ****. Jon Jones is a walking and talking disappointment. He has all the tools to market himself as the best MMA fighter ever, but he keeps failing drug test after drug test and doesn't seem to be remorseful about it either. Overall, Boxing is and forever will remain the godfather of combat sports. Lomachenko, TC, Spence, Joshua, etc, are all capable of carrying and being the face of boxing.

[german12johnson]

the ufc broke the ppv record in north america with their event in November ufc 217..they're doing okay..when was the last time bob had a record breaking ppv show? or just a ppv show for starters

What ppv record UFC had this year quit lying

[german12johnson]

All the UFC stars are steroid users

[millcitymauler]

Me either my friend, and because I've never heard that expression before I'm going to assume Bob made it up himself lol

I definitely think you are on to something there...

[b Murphington]

It goes one of two ways, Dana is coming into boxing to take over, or Dana is coming into boxing to try to save his company.

I think he's trying to save his company.

UFC is a brand. A league. UFC doesn't equal MMA. Boxing is worldwide. It's huge. UFC is much smaller than boxing and less powerful.

I remember as recent as 10 years ago, people were raving about UFC/MMA and going on how boxing is dead and never coming back. Look at where we are now. UFC coming over and wanting to do business with boxing.

[McNulty]

U mad Fat ***** ?

UFC sold more PPV than boxing (except mcgregor vs. floyd )

Boxing don't need PPV's to be successful shíthead. Did you just land on Earth today or?

The Mayweather fight did more PPV buys than I think the entire UFC did for the year.

[McNulty]

What flavor koolaid you drinking man?

via *****

UFC Revenues for 2016 were approximately $700 million.

UFC revenues for 2017 were higher than 2016.

I'd say the UFC will make 4.5 billion in about 7 years and 5 years from 2017. Looks like a pretty sound investment to me.

Overall, 2017 has been a terrible year for the UFC in regards to pay-per-view numbers.

UFC 216 PPV buys were bad, just not as bad as UFC 215

UFC 208: 200,000
UFC 209: 300,000
UFC 210: 300,000
UFC 211: 300,000
UFC 212: 167,000
UFC 213: 150,000
UFC 214: 850,000
UFC 215: 100,000
UFC 216: 120,000
UFC 217: 875,000
UFC 218: ~230,000

The entertainment conglomerate laid off 15 percent of the UFC's staff last October with an overall goal of slashing a $55 million payroll to just $27 million, per investor documents cited by MMAjunkie's Ben Fowlkes and Steven Marrocco.

Matchmaker Joe Silva, who had been with the UFC for more than 20 years, retired at the end of 2016.

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2017/10/13/dreadful-pay-per-view-numbers-prove-ufc-needs-conor-mcgregor-more-than-ever/#9e918a15a972

https://www.mmamania.com/2017/10/12/16465808/ufc-216-ppv-buys-were-bad-just-not-bad-ufc-215-mma

http://mmapayout.com/category/pay-per-view/

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2699257-one-quarter-into-2017-what-is-wme-img-doing-with-the-ufc

[jjsmyth87]

The problem with the UFC is that all of its stars don't usually live up to their hype. Lesnar, Ronda, McGregor, Jon Jones(cheater), etc have all failed. Anderson Silva and George St Pierre were really great in their prime years, but they couldn't draw flies to ****. Jon Jones is a walking and talking disappointment. He has all the tools to market himself as the best MMA fighter ever, but he keeps failing drug test after drug test and doesn't seem to be remorseful about it either. Overall, Boxing is and forever will remain the godfather of combat sports. Lomachenko, TC, Spence, Joshua, etc, are all capable of carrying and being the face of boxing.

Thats not true at all, Anderson Silva and especially George St. Pierre were huge stars for Ufc. St pierre still is. Ufc 217 which St Pierre headlined sold 875k ppv's and the next closest of 2017 only sold 300k unless the Holm Cyborg fights numbers are bigger when they release them

With that being said Ufc is a huge and very successful company. More successful than any boxing promoter because they damn near have a monopoly. Bellator is their only real competitor and they are light years behind Ufc in terms of success. But Ufc has gone down a little bit and Boxing overall is bigger but there are many different promoters and platforms. Top Rank and Pbc are the biggest but you also have Golden Boy, K2, Matchroom ect. Top rank could become as successful as Ufc if they keep going the way they are