UFC Dominates Boxing Ratings & Remains King of PPV Hill

It’s estimated that UFC did nearly 8 million Pay Per View buys in the US & Canada on 13 pay-per-view events this past year.

…The next day, World Wrestling Entertainment presents its biggest event of the year, WrestleMania 26, from the University of Phoenix Stadium. Pro wrestling events generally fare poorly on the day after UFC cards, as the bulk of pay-per-view purchases are made by friends who gather to watch the fights, but generally speaking, people aren t going to do that twice on the same weekend. WrestleMania could be the exception, since it s the one annual event that people who no longer follow wrestling still buy. While most WWE monthly PPV s do less than 150,000 buys in North America, WrestleMania last year did an estimated 582,000 buys.
HBO Boxing, which had a 2009 strategy of putting more major fights on HBO instead of PPV, with the idea it would pay dividends in the future by building more of a younger base audience for the sport, only had three major pay-per-view events. But all were major successes, doing a combined estimated 3,125,000 buys. All three events finished top six for the year and in hindsight, holding…

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