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Dan- would you guess that this event (and Bryan's loss) would effectively clean out King's coffers? Not sure how it ever made sense for the man to pay over $3million for this, but there's no way it sold well on PPV (10,000 seems a generous guess), and the venue didn't appear packed (no large gate), and he's lost his only upside (a Bryan win would have made him at least a serious player in the division)... the only real revenue I can think of would be British TV rights, which wouldn't be huge but probably decent. Local sponsors can't be much... who knows what he was thinking, but I'd guess DK took a bath on this and is left with Jonathan Guidry as his star fighter.
What do you know about the state of DKP after this turd flamed out?
Dan- would you guess that this event (and Bryan's loss) would effectively clean out King's coffers? Not sure how it ever made sense for the man to pay over $3million for this, but there's no way it sold well on PPV (10,000 seems a generous guess), and the venue didn't appear packed (no large gate), and he's lost his only upside (a Bryan win would have made him at least a serious player in the division)... the only real revenue I can think of would be British TV rights, which wouldn't be huge but probably decent. Local sponsors can't be much... who knows what he was thinking, but I'd guess DK took a bath on this and is left with Jonathan Guidry as his star fighter.
What do you know about the state of DKP after this turd flamed out?