UFC 101 did 800,000 to 1,000,000 buys

And Page-Rashad won't be a bigger draw than this after the most anticipated TUF season maybe ever?

The UFC has hit the big time man. 100 set some shit off. Lots of repeat customers. Since the event kicked fucking ass in the main events, guess who is coming back for 102?

I have a feeling 102 will drop off somewhat. Couture is the only real draw. All the hard cores love Nog, but he doesn't have drawing power like BJ, Silva, and Forrest. Same goes for Jardine, T Silva, Nate, and Maia.

I'm a little unsure about 103. It is a very, very deep card, but is Franklin-Belfort enough to garner major excitment?

104 should be big. Machida-Shogun title fight, the big (literally) boys in Carwin & Cain, a TUF winner, and a former champion (Sherk).

I don't know why the UFC insists on retiring Liddell. He could be used for some big money fights. One with Griffin would still do huge and at this point doesn't seem like such a terrible mismatch. That's a fight that should have happened a year ago anyway. Forrest isn't going to KO Liddell. Hell, Liddell might still be relevant if he fought Forrest instead of Rua.

I think Forrest could easily do exactly what Jardine did to him.

Jardine didn't find some hole in Liddell's game that he couldn't fix. Liddell works best when he's in a shootout and I'd wager he'd get Griffin into a shoot out.

Maybe, maybe not. Forrest was smart vs Rampage and stuck to the game plan.

Ya, he also almost got knocked the fuck out anyway.

Forrest vs Liddell has made sense for quite awhile now, but they seem to be holding off. Not sure why, it would do great business.

I wouldn't be surprised if Chuck knocked him out. He still has good power and Forrest isn't going to be anything other than a punching bag for 3 rounds anyway. Why not let them fight?

with tito, couture, lesnar and liddell all in the UFC imagine what kind of crazy ppv they could put on for an end of the year show. Seriously if they play their cards right they could get a ppv with around 2 million buys. Like i've said before they've never had as many great fighters and ppv draws on their roster at the same time as they do right now.

yeah and overall I felt like UFC 101 was garbage and a waste of time. The Silva fight was basically the only entertainment other than the 4th round of the Penn/Flo fight...the rest of that fight was boring.

NoRegret wrote:

yeah and overall I felt like UFC 101 was garbage and a waste of time. The Silva fight was basically the only entertainment other than the 4th round of the Penn/Flo fight...the rest of that fight was boring.

Both main events were great.

Johny Hendricks exploded on Amir

Seeing Grove get beat was nice, but the was a deep ass armbar.

Pellegrino looked decent too.

u guys think a tito-chuck 3 would be huge? i was thinking about this the other day

I said anything under 800 would be a disappointment and it looks like they at least hit that mark. I think that 102 is lucky to see 550-600 though... Lucky!

You act like 600K is bad or something.

No it would be a great thing for that card... I'm guessing less than 500, and only that number because of Couture. No title fights on a PPV usually don't fair too well even with a legend...

I'm thinking it's very likely 102 does between 600-700K buys. The combination of momentum and Couture should seal it.