UFC 150 PPV Buyrate: Another Box Office Bomb

The UFC took another body blow at the pay-per-view box office, as Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reports the very, very early estimates for UFC 150’s PPV buyrate is in the 190,000 range.  A couple of factors lead to that low number (which could end up being a bit higher as more accurate estimates become available) – millions of eyeballs were glued to the London Olympics still last weekend, and a problem at DirecTV left many viewers unable to order the event.  However, this poor PPV sales number, added with the dismal $650,000 gate the event pulled in (which Dana White partially blamed on the Aurora Dark Knight shootings – unfortunately I kid you not), makes the event an unmitigated failure.

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