Who will replace Brock as PPV King for the UFC?

Who do you guys think it will be?

Chuck Liddell

I think they are in for continued mediocre PPV numbers

GSP comeback will sell and Sonnen-Silva II when it goes down. Other than that I see a lot of 400-500k tops events

Bones

Even this one will be one of Brocks worse PPV showings I bet. I ran into several, well known to me, casuals who would normally eat up this card, in particular, on my way to where I watched the fights last night, none of them knew there was even a UFC this weekend.

Jon Jones has really been this years revenue rising star, not quite matching his MMA rise though, but he has consistently seen cards he headlines along side other well known fighters like Shogun and Rampage, see over 450k in the buys. That will carry over as a norm for him when juxtaposed to the bevy of cards that got around 300k this year, is not bad.

Guys like Silva and GSP are gonna remain constants thought to be safe bets to get over 500k buys.

I feel like this right now:


1a/1b. Silva and GSP
2. Bones
3. Penn??? always a sell, but maybe retired.
4. Shogun/Hendo/Rampage
5. HW Champ
6. All other Champs/Nick Diaz - could be a rising PPV draw if he keeps winning.

In the last two years all of the cards that have gotten over 400k buys have a seires of common denominators in their main events: Lesnar, Silva, GSP, Penn, Rua, Jackson, Bones and Liddell. The expections being UFC UFC 98 and UFC 102 although I guess you can include Machida, all of his UFC have been over 400k, but that has as much to do with the other name if not more so.

1/17/09 UFC 93 Franklin v. Henderson 350,000
1/31/09 UFC 94 GSP v. Penn II 920,000
3/7/09 UFC 96 Jackson v. Jardine 350,000
4/18/09 UFC 97 Silva v. Leites 650,000
5/23/09 UFC 98 Evans v. Machida 635,000
6/13/09 UFC 99 Franklin v. Silva 360,000
7/11/09 UFC 100 Lesnar v. Mir 1,600,000
8/8/09 UFC 101 Penn v. Florian 850,000
8/29/09 UFC 102 Couture v. Nogueira 435,000
9/19/09 UFC 103 Franklin v. Belfort 375,000
10/24/09 UFC 104 Machida v. Rua 500,000
11/21/09 UFC 106 Ortiz v. Griffin II 375,000
12/12/09 UFC 107 Penn v. Sanchez 620,000
1/2/2010 UFC 108 Evans vs. Silva 300,000
2/6/2010 UFC 109 Couture vs. Coleman 275,000
2/21/2010 UFC 110 Nogueria v. Velasquez 215,000
3/27/2010 UFC 111 GSP vs. Hardy 770,000
4/10/2010 UFC 112 Silva vs. Maia 500,000
4/24/2010 WEC 48 Aldo vs. Faber 175,000
5/8/2010 UFC 113 Machida vs. Rua 520,000
5/29/2010 UFC 114 Evans vs. Jackson 1,050,000
6/12/2010 UFC 115 Liddell vs. Franklin 525,000
7/3/2010 UFC 116 Lesnar vs. Carwin 1,160,000
8/7/2010 UFC 117 Silva vs. Sonnen 600,000
8/28/2010 UFC 118 Edgar vs. Penn 2 535,000
9/25/2010 UFC 119 Mir vs. Cro Cop 295,000
10/23/2010 UFC 121 Lesnar vs. Velasquez 1,050,000
11/20/2010 UFC 123 Jackson vs. Machida 500,000
12/11/2010 UFC 124 GSP vs. Koscheck 800,000
1/1/2011 UFC 125 Edgar vs. Maynard II 270,000
2/5/2011 UFC 126 Silva vs. Belfort 725,000
2/27/2011 UFC 127 Penn vs. Fitch 260,000
3/19/2011 UFC 128 Shogun vs. Jones 445,000
4/30/2011 UFC 129 GSP vs. Shields 800,000
5/28/2011 UFC 130 Rampage vs. Hamill 325,000
6/11/2011 UFC 131 Dos Santos vs. Carwin 325,000
7/2/2011 UFC 132 Cruz vs. Faber 350,000
8/6/2011 UFC 133 Evans vs. Ortiz 310,000
8/27/2011 UFC 134 Silva vs. Okami 335,000
9/24/2011 UFC 135 Jones vs. Rampage 480,000
10/8/2011 UFC 136 Edgar vs. Maynard III 225,000
10/29/2011 UFC 137 Penn vs. Diaz 280,000
11/19/2011 UFC 139 Henderson vs. Rua 290,000
12/10/2011 UFC 140 Jones vs. Machida 485,000

people will tune in to nick diaz,bisping and pretty much any douche bag that can seel himself. Thing is they will tune in hoping they lose.

Nick Diaz as interm champion against a returning GSP will be the next big card I think, depending on how Overeem vs JDS does now that most casuals should be engaged for this fight.

I just think matchups will dictate who the highest ppv guy is. John Jones rised because he was fighting guys like Shogun, Rampage and Machida. If u put good cards out they will sell. I think UFC 142 is going to do terrible.

It will be huge in Brazil which is the biggest concern

Im not paying for it.How bout u?

I haven't paid for one since 121 so no. Just saying the card will be huge in Brazil. They'll gladly take the 250k buyrate and move on with Aldo becoming a huge start in his country

bobbit and I really should have sig bet on the fight.

Hi Bobbit. U mad?

It was a likely outcome so not really. Looking forward to Overeem-JDS banging it out

GSP
Bones

one big PPV they can milk out of Rampage vs King Mo IMO... they sell with words alone

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

My bad, I meant the next guy to start getting GSP/Brock numbers. GSP will always be King

Michael Bisping.

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

Farmer1906 wrote:

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

Maybe the best in the world at talking like a nerd who's a robot. Anderson Silva P4P #1.

Ludo wrote:

Farmer1906 wrote:

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

Maybe the best in the world at talking like a nerd who's a robot. Anderson Silva P4P #1.

+1

Farmer1906 wrote:

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

If that was the case Anderson Silva's PPV's would be through the roof.

Ali wrote:

Farmer1906 wrote:

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

If that was the case Anderson Silva's PPV's would be through the roof.

The majority think GSP is king

freakzilla wrote:

Ali wrote:

Farmer1906 wrote:

Ali wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

freakzilla wrote:

Jon Jones will be the next PPV king. UFC 142 will do less than 200,000 buys.

i think GSP is and was the king to be honest... every one of his ppvs sells like crazy

And I really can't fathom why.

People like seeing the best in the world.

If that was the case Anderson Silva's PPV's would be through the roof.

The majority think GSP is king

No they don't, in Yahoo's last P4P poll only one writer didn't vote Silva #1 and his vote went to Bones.