UFC 285: Combat Sports News: Two highly anticipated pay-per-view combat sports events that took place back-to-back over the past two weeks featured Jake Paul losing to his former foe Tommy Fury in the boxing ring. While Jon Jones made his long-anticipated comeback inside the UFC cage, he did it in style by defeating Ciryl Gane in his debut match in this division and securing the heavyweight title. So now let’s look at how much attention these two events received globally by comparing their PPV sales figures. Follow Combat Sports News Updates with InsideSport.IN.
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UFC 285: Jon Jones vs Ciryl Gane PPV sales comparison to Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury
First, let’s talk about the Paul vs. Fury fight. This was the boxing match that fans had been eagerly awaiting. Two burgeoning boxing talents squared off in Saudi Arabia during the Paul vs. Fury fight. Fury won the contest handily, defying all predictions that were made. Given that the event was a chart-topper, Jake still has a lot to be happy about financially even though he lost the match.
In his podcast earlier last week, “The Problem Child” projected rough sales of around 500,000, calling it potentially the biggest PPV boxing event of the year and expressing his desire to use the rematch provision in his contract. Meanwhile, Most Valuable Promotions has reported that the bout has sold an astounding 775,000 PPVs which is way bigger than Paul estimated.
UFC 285 sales
As per Ali Abdelaziz, UFC 285 garnered over one million pay-per-view purchases, making it a huge economic success. In contrast to Jake vs. Fury, the event included a plethora of celebrities, including Alexa Grasso, Valentina Shevchenko, and many more.
UFC 285: Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: PPV sales comparison- Jon Jones vs Ciryl Gane generates Million PPV buys, Check UFC 285 PPV sales
Given that Jones was making his comeback after a lengthy absence, it was predicted that this would surpass all expectations and rank among the biggest pay-per-view events in Jones’ career.
Jones won the contest in the opening round, just as we have seen him do time and time again, and it only took him three minutes to win the company’s championship once more. The UFC has again outperformed Boxing in terms of overall PPV revenue, given that it is growing at a meteoric rate.
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