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Top 10 PPV Buyrates in 2008   5 comments

Posted at 10:47 pm in Personal Blog Nonsense

In case you’re wondering why Brock Lesnar got a championship bout after only 3 fights:

  1. Boxing: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 6, 1,250,000 
  2. UFC: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture, Nov. 15, 1,010,000 
  3. Wrestling: WrestleMania, Edge vs. Undertaker, March 30, 670,000 
  4. UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jon Fitch/Lesnar vs. Heath Herring, Aug. 9, 625,000 
  5. UFC: Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Feb. 2, 600,000 
  6. UFC: Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin, July 5, 540,000 
  7. UFC: St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra, April 19, 530,000 
  8. Boxing: Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr., Jan. 19, 500,000 
  9. UFC: Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans, Sept. 6, 480,000 
  10. UFC: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk/Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida, May 24, 475,000

If there’s any question that MMA has taken over Boxing as the #1 PPV sport in the US, there’s your answer. De La Hoya has the name power to draw 1 million buys, but not after that fight. He’s done (if you didn’t see the fight, he was dominated for 8 rounds by Pacquiao, and looked old and useless)

More interestingly, look whose name headlines the top 3 UFC events… There’s no question, Brock is now UFC’s biggest star, taking that position from Chuck Liddell. 

Source: Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer

Written by Carl Nelson on December 14th, 2008

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