Brock Lesnar is only days away from returning inside the Octagon, but don’t expect the former champ to sell a lot of pay-per-view buys like he has in the past.
With UFC 141 this Friday and Lesnar being the headliner, the buzz surrounding this event is awfully quiet. Are MMA fans sick of Lesnar? No pun intended, but I believe they are.
I wasn’t expecting it to be hyped up like UFC 100 or anything, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think it would get a tremendous amount of coverage like UFC 116 did.
Both PPVs were headlined by the former PPV king, but I’m not sure if Lesnar still possesses the star power he once had.
In Lesnar’s fight against Frank Mir at UFC 100, the buy rates were estimated around 1.6 million. Then when Lesnar fought Shane Carwin at UFC 116, the buy rates were a little over one million buys, and Lesnar’s last fight against Cain Velasquez at UFC 121 did over a million buys as well.
But I’m being completely honest when I say that I don’t think this PPV will get over a million buys or maybe even 500,000 buys.
That’s the brutal truth, and these are the five reasons why Lesnar is no longer the UFC’s PPV king.