The pay-per-view industry is predicting record numbers for next month’s Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight. Las Vegas betting sites are putting the over/under at 5 million buys and those involved with the show are touting significantly higher numbers.
But the other end of the pay-per-view industry is soft, with the three most recent major events being projected to do less than 150,000 buys.
This continues a trend that has gone on for a few years, where the big fights get bigger, but everything else gets smaller.
UFC 213 on July 8, the show that lost its main event of Amanda Nunes vs.