Bob Arum: The UFC's PPV numbers have been very bad since the FOX deal
Posted on March 27, 2012, 12:27 PM by Joey SantosusEveryone's favorite professional boxing promoter, Bob Arum, recently spoke to FightHubTV regarding last year's monumental deal between the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the FOX Network. According to Arum, the UFC's PPV numbers have seen a major dip since partnering with FOX, which he says is likely due to giving the product away for free.
Bob Arum
"First of all, there is no real competition between boxing and the UFC. There's a very, very small crossover, eight-percent. I think the UFC does a very good job with promotion, but it's a totally different gameplan from the one that we have. Going on the Fox network is okay, but I don't know if it helps their pay-per-view numbers. It's a mixed bag. Their numbers have been very, very bad on PPV (since the Fox deal) because people say we can see the same thing for nothing, why should we pay? You can't make value judgments with the very small window that they've had. Let's see how it works out over a year. ... These (PPV) shows are not distinguishing themselves from the Fox shows. It's all like the same thing, it's UFC."
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Then why are you mad?
I thought the UFC doesn't make public information about its PPV earnings. How does Arum know?
Ok havent read anything responding on title alone cause he is one of the guys that wont face realiality and keep paying crappy fighters to much and let or back guys like Mayweather who let greed mask the reason why
he wont fight the top contender.... my numbers are off it is way more than what I say but Pacquiao has been trying to get the fight at a lagit pay arrangement where all basicially it a 60/40 split to the winner for ALL money but Floyd always has something and it will come to 100s of millions I know they are great and the greatest but are you phucking serious is way to much is awesome to get paid great for something you love but the greed and cheating has had a huge effect on all things....look MMA fighters should get paid more and will....UFC has insurance and short term disability rehab and they will find the best Docotors they can fly you out to get you back...never been done they work really hard to make it safe as possible,... between pay for the fight bonus for the win KO,SUB,ect...pay....and sponsors a new fighter to UFC pon the
outside doesnt look like a lot base at $10,000+what ever bonus, free insurance....isnt bad.....and is getting better....but Boxing went from having alot of great fighters being paid reallllly reallly good and lose the guys with passion and we lose ppl to train with passion and now have no boxers but keep paying tons of money to fighters that suck and now boxing is drowning so for a uy to go MMA numbers are down see they arent real sport was going to happen ..... when MMA has at least 2 per mounth and Boxing 2 per year on a good yearis said
PPV buys are common knowledge.
he wasnt talking about fans though, he was talking about casual viewers, and gustaffson vs. thiago silva could be an amazing fight, for free, so he has a point that some people will prefer to wait for the next free fight rather than pay 50 dollars
I don't like the guy but nothing he said was unreasonable or inflamatory. He actually makes valid points and has a wait-and-see attitude on the network deal.
Of course after he made himself look like a total senile fool last time he tangled with the UFC. He needs to have a heart attack and go away.
would make sense, but saying stuff like "
These (PPV) shows are not distinguishing themselves from the Fox shows"
Really shows he doest know much about the UFC fighters, because thats the main difference between PPV and Fox Shows. PPV you get to see people like JDS,Overeem, Nick Diaz,Anderson Silva,GSP...point is HUGE difference...
and you have to remember FOX is in South America, wait and see how they embrace the sport and start buying PPV....
Well then thank the good lord Bob Arum isn't running the UFC. Love Dana or hate him, the UFC still does certain things they think are good for the fans. By not putting second teir guys on the Fox shows.
The Fox shows suck, but you cant give away the best matches, thats where PPV comes in. Boob Arum doesnt even have new up and coming fighters in his game plan at all. He simply promotes and rapes on big fights. Im sure Boob never did anything for new fighters.
Hes not even in the same league with the UFC. Hes a little mouse squeaking because his tail is getting stepped on.
This guy makes up his own facts on the spot and should not be taken seriously in anything, especially when he says he wants to put on the best fights for boxing fans (paq vs. floyd)
and no difference between Fox shows and PPVs?
How about completely different production and broadcasting style? Not to mention on the two FOX shows there was been a 1 fight card and a 3 fight card, instead of the ordinary 5 fight card.
He says they say why would they pay when they can get it free on FOX... because maybe they are completely different cards and some fans are interested to see more than one card every few months.
Arum is a fool
This dude (bobby) is a total ass-clown
What's funny here is he could have just said the correct information (The UFC's declining PPV numbers over the past year and a half), and he would have been fine. Instead he brought the Fox deal in which made no sense.
Bob, you're too funny.
UFC PPV numbers have been in decline WAAAAAAAAAY before the fox deal. WHY ? go back at look at how many cards the UFC had to change due to injurys.
Boxing loses sales to MMA not the other way around and Boob knows it.