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How To Win Fans & Influence People
With Niall Quinn recently bemoaning fans watching games illegally in pubs, combined with the latest released accounts of SAFC showing a loss of £27m, Roker Report has been inundated with messages asking "Where should we go from here? How can we correct this?" Here are some of our suggestions on...
WWE Releases 3rd Quarter Results
The full press release can be found here. Here are some of the juicer bits from this morning's 11:00AM conference call. Big ups to Larry Csonka of 411Wrestling.com for transcribing the call. Donna Goldsmith takes over the call, and says that Vince is unable to join us today. Damn. She says they...
UFC Now Full Speed Ahead in Tricky China Market
It's full speed ahead for the UFC in Asia. We've discussed the potential problems the UFC will encounter in depth here before. Now Zuffa has found the man they think can adapt and overcome. UFC President Dana White introduced the new Executive VP Mark Fischer who spoke briefly at the UFC 118 press...
UFC 117 estimates are hovering around 600,000 buys
According to Bryan Alvarez in Figure Four Weekly via The Underground, current estimates put UFC 117's PPV buys in the 600,000 range. This was where most higher-end guesses were in the days before the fight (based on the theoretical maximum business of an Anderson Silva fight), but it's mildly...
Like TNA, WWE's PPV business is in the toilet
The big news coming out of WWE's 2010 second quarter financial results is that like TNA, WWE's PPV business is in the toilet. Over The Limit drew 197,000 buys, which is pretty poor but not disastrous. Extreme Rules did even worse drawing 182,000 buys, which is close to rock bottom. Fatal Four...
Putting TNA's epic fail in perspective
As has been discussed here recently, TNA's last few PPVs have drawn around 8,000 buys each, which is beyond pathetic and even lower than what the early pre-taped ROH PPVs drew. It gets worse. In the newest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer analyzed the Boston Globe story about Dana White....
Does Excellence Draw? Jake Shields and the Anderson Silva Paradox
Jake Shields signing a Zuffa contract to compete in the UFC's welterweight division is a great thing in a lot of ways. Shields is an amazing fighter, unbeaten in five and a half years since falling to Shooto's Akira Kikuchi. That was a long time ago, predating The Ultimate Fighter and MMA's...
Strikeforce wants Dave Batista vs Bobby Lashley to headline their first PPV. How well could it do?
Jeremy Botter at Heavy.com has an interesting story about Strikeforce's plans for the Dave Batista vs Bobby Lashley fight that they want to put together if they sign Batista. From the article: If signed, Bautista’s debut will almost assuredly come against fellow former pro wrestler Bobby...
Like it or not, freak show fights prove MMA still more business than sport
I love the sporting aspect of MMA and love seeing top fighters fight each other. But I have to admit, the potential of fights between Mariusz Pudzianowski and Kimbo Slice and Tim Sylvia and Hong-Man Choi at a Moosin event in October has me greatly intrigued. It seems like freak shows fights, which...
How will UFC 113 do on PPV with Lyoto Machida vs Mauricio "Shogun" Rua II compared to other famous rematches?
With some of UFC's most successful events in the past having been headlined by rematches, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how some of these past events have done in terms of PPV buys. Tito Ortiz vs Ken Shamrock: They first met at UFC 40 on 11/22/02. With a strong grudge and an...
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