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SonnyakaPig · 02-10-2008, 06:16 PM

TS, thanks for posting this information. I was really interested in learning those numbers.

UFC 72- 200,000 buys. That's not very good. I always felt that card should have been free.

Also, it's pretty telling that Royce Gracie is a huge draw considering that his fight against Hughes at UFC 60, drew 620,00 buys. Prior to that fight, it could have never reasonably been expected that Gracie v Hughes would have been a competitive fight. And it wasn't.

Compare the number of buys for the Gracie v Hughes fight to these excellent matchups:

UFC 79 - Liddell v. Silva - 600,000* (this also included GSP v Hughes and Soko v Machida)
UFC 68 - Slyvia v. Couture - 540,000
UFC 74 - Couture v. Gonzaga - 520,000
UFC 63 - Hughes v. Penn - 400,000
UFC 76 - Liddell v. Jardine - 475,000

02-10-2008, 06:16 PM	#43 (permalink)
SonnyakaPig Brown Belt Join Date: May 2007 Location: Laying on a bag of ice Posts: 4,131	TS, thanks for posting this information. I was really interested in learning those numbers. UFC 72- 200,000 buys. That's not very good. I always felt that card should have been free. Also, it's pretty telling that Royce Gracie is a huge draw considering that his fight against Hughes at UFC 60, drew 620,00 buys. Prior to that fight, it could have never reasonably been expected that Gracie v Hughes would have been a competitive fight. And it wasn't. Compare the number of buys for the Gracie v Hughes fight to these excellent matchups: UFC 79 - Liddell v. Silva - 600,000* (this also included GSP v Hughes and Soko v Machida) UFC 68 - Slyvia v. Couture - 540,000 UFC 74 - Couture v. Gonzaga - 520,000 UFC 63 - Hughes v. Penn - 400,000 UFC 76 - Liddell v. Jardine - 475,000 __________________ Give me space, "I’m working on the intricacies of details of maneuvers," here.