Hard to grasp if Affliction: Banned was a success

In a latest version by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer he talks about the number of PPV buys from the Affliction: Banned event saying that the numbers aren't the what VP Tom Atencio said they were. This is what Meltzer says in his latest report,

"It’s been hard to narrow down a buy rate for the Affliction show. Promoter Tom Atencio has claimed the figure was more than 100,000. Updated cable sources we’ve checked with have estimated from a low of 65,000 to a high of 100,000. Either way, the number is both excellent by the standards of a promotion with no television (it beats anything TNA has done with 2 million weekly TV viewers), but as noted over and over, it’s a substantial money loser."

Other people beg to differ like UFC president Dana White who often refers to Atencio as "A guy who sells T - Shirts". Anyway, White says that the numbers overall for Affliction: Banned are false and claims that the promotion lost an amount of $4 million dollars. MMA fans did have some difficulties ordering the event as first reported, but only Tom Atencio has the real answers for the total amount of buys. We will never know the real numbers, but Affliction won one war as far as pay per view sales and lost the other war of pulling in a profit. You can also note the UFC's first show under Zuffa did not sell as many payperview's as Affliction's first rumored numbers.





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