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UFC 129 fails to reach 1 million PPV buys
UFC 129 was the biggest UFC event in history in terms of attendance, live gate ticket sales and marketing. The…
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Chris Palmquist
UFC 129 was the biggest UFC event in history in terms of attendance, live gate ticket sales and marketing. The fight card featured welterweight champion and MMA superstar Georges St-Pierre, Jake Shields, Randy Couture, Lyoto Machida and Jose Aldo.
It was a truly epic event that should have done huge numbers in the pay per view ratings as well. The strange thing is that it did not meet the expectations that were placed on it by the projections.
Dave Meltzer reported that the event was estimated to have done around 800-900,000 buys, which is short of the one million buy goal.
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