It is safe to say they most likely make $25m at the end of everything
But accounting can be strange
Does fighter pay come out of that or gate, etc.?
But truth is, UFC makes prob over 50% off Fight Pass than WWE profited in 2017
Wow, that's a hell of a stat on WWE profit.
When they put an event exclusively on fight pass... I got to think that ALL the costs for that event come out of the fight pass budget imo. Fighter pay, staff, flights, hotels, venue cost etc... Everything. To your point... those costs are offset by such things as gate... & sponsors.... I would also throw in merchandise sales from the event. Any profit made from that event would offset the cost of putting on the event.
I wonder how it works out.... but fight pass put on 5 events last year... plus the contender series.... so they must not be doing too bad on it.
Fight Pass exclusive events in 2017
http://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-shanghai-nov-25-2017
http://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-poland-2017
http://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-rotterdam-2017
http://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-singapore-2017
http://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-fight-night-london-2017
The
Holm vs. Correira fight seemed to be at the upper end of the salary scale... so I did some quick figures... keeping in mind that the salaries are only estimates since overseas fight commissions don't require them to report salaries.
Fighter Salaries = $1,267,000 (not counting rebok money)
Gate = $839,300
Manawa vs. Anderson
Fighter Salaries = $745,000
Gate = $2,015,77
So these 2 cards show a very different look at Gate vs. Fighter salaries.
@FrankieNYC do you know how much the UFC makes from its sponsors? or perhaps how much it makes from its merchandise sales per event? I know it's a long shot... but I tried finding some info on it, but came up short. I found something saying Monster shelled out 7 mill for a multi-year deal... but it didn't say how many years. You gotta think Harley & Bud light are on that level as well.
I dunno... I was just geeking out a little bit trying to wrap my head around what it costs them to put on a fight pass event vs. what they get... but it's probably about impossible to know with a lot of the detailz not available.