That 12,000 wasn't the greatest number but 3.1 million, even with the casinos, it's one of the more respectable gates of this year. She had noted that the gate did 3.1 million and I think after a little papering, the turnout was just north of 12,000. Luke Thomas: What did you think of the live gate and the audience? There was an article today on and I actually challenged the author of it. I was thinking in that range, maybe a little lower but it could be. I'm sure they number will be good but it probably would have been better on Saturday.ĭave Meltzer: It could be. I mean, I suppose they could have run a different city and the actual original plan was to run New Year's Eve from Abu Dhabi and it fell through so that's where Las Vegas came in and they did the best they could. so it would have really been impossible to run there. You couldn't get in on Saturday night to the strip, they shut the whole place down at 6 p.m. I was there and all the stuff Dana White said, it's definitely true. They couldn't have run it in Las Vegas on a Saturday.
I think it did reasonably well, it would have done exceptionally well if they had been on Saturday but they had reasons. I think the show probably did fairly well just because it was a Brock Lesnar show and there hadn't been one in 14 months and there hasn't been that many big shows this year so people are kind of starved for what they perceive as a "big show" even though there have been a lot of great shows but they haven't been big shows to the public. It's a little more inconvenient for a lot of people but I guess it's more convenient for some people as well but Friday I think is gonna hurt them. The time change I don't think makes any difference whatsoever.
How do you believe this will ultimately turn out in terms of pay-per-view buys?ĭave Meltzer: It's really hard to tell.
I know you had initially expressed concerns and I can tell you on my end, it's never a one-one-connection but I'm an online traffic junkie and the online numbers were through the roof. timeframe for east coast starts on pay-per-view. Luke Thomas: Dave, I want to talk first about UFC 141 and then more specifically about Brock Lesnar. In this two-part interview with Dave Meltzer, Yahoo! Sports writer and the proprietor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, we discuss to what extent UFC 141 was a commercial success, whether Alistair Overeem can be a mixed martial arts star, what impact the diverticulitis had on Lesnar's career, why Lesnar looked so feeble at UFC 141, why the Shane Carwin fight at UFC 116 was a turning point for Lesnar's MMA career and much more.
But what will his legacy be now that's he gone? Both as a force in the heavyweight division and as a promotional powerhouse, Lesnar's inclusion in the sport had immediate effect.
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Upon the announced retirement of former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, the MMA world immediately begin to consider the impact the former professional wrestler and NCAA Division I national champion wrestler had on the world's newest combative sport.
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