UFC 146 Final Live Gate and PPV Buyrates
By Chris Leslie on June 6, 2012
The final live gate and attendance numbers are in for the UFC’s first all-heavyweight card with the event drawing a total gate of $3,428,775 with 11,428 tickets purchased. According to MMAWeekly, there were 276 tickets left unsold for the May 26 show and 3,246 tickets were comped by the UFC.
The event also totaled close to 560,000 total PPV buys according to Dave Meltzer. While this is a slight drop from UFC 145, the card still comes in as the second best PPV for the UFC’s 2012 campaign.
The strong numbers will generate a sizable increase purse for heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos, Frank Mir, and Cain Velasquez. All three of which have PPV incentives in their contracts.
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Yes the UFC will now pay close to maybe 1 million to all the fighters combined, out of the almost 30 million they made between ppv and the gate. No disparity there at all ;)
Damn I wish I could buy stock in that company.
The PPV% is the critical part though. Most champions get 2% of the PPV revenue….that adds up to a truly huge chunk of change for JDS.
its not all profit! ufc will be lucky if they make 25%… i would assume?????
2% puts junior at 760,000 or so (think he got 200,000 for the fight)? Which is better than a kick in the butt I suppose. Still wondering what kind of overall percentage this is for the man who basically made the card.