| well if he prepared to make a loss the first few shows possibly, just to build up the franchise...or at least find a way to minimize losses/break even...I can only speak of the economics of the one in Sg based on the rough numbers i gathered:
To get up the cage and rent the venue was about 15k USD. The purse for the fighters was about USD 10K (supposedly, but eventually there was none). He'd have to also provide for insurance and other misc. - I guess about 10k USD? that's 35k USD and I don't know what publicity costs here
I've been to small MMA shows in Indiana and something like that attracted a decent crowd but not much (maybe 300 people? and this was like a recurring event with some guys who eventually went to the UFC). Supposing the first event charges 50 -100 USD a pop...you'd need to pull in something like 500 people at the gate to breakeven/turn some $.
I could go on about this(don't know that much really)...maybe if he wants he could write to me or something to find out more....  |