Dana White willing to sell small stake in UFC to outside investor (Video)

So true, i recall hearing that when looking at all the Lambos and Ferraris :(

i would like to hang out w/ these guys for free

If the UFC is valued at $1 billion then 1% would be $10 million. I don’t have that much.

Nope.

10 million bucks would be 1% if it is really valued at $1 billion

Nope, sorry. IN your next lifetime perhaps…

Besides dude, he said they wanna sell 10 or 15%, I doubt they would even entertain the thought of 1%.

If you had 100,000 dollars in your pocket you wouldnt be asking what 10% of a billion is, not to mention the fact that if you had 100000 dollars in your pocket you would be a financial moron for not investing it properly and you would have a huge pocket… Moron

Seriously, what kind of person goes online and says “I have $100,000 in my pocket”?

Answer: The kind of person who has nothing.

It’s like the guy at your workplace who always brags about how much he gets laid…he never gets laid.

Hey Intro I think I know that guy…

The UFC is likely worth about 500 million (assetts and earnings). This “worth one billion dollars” evaluation is one based on future growth and is about as pie in the sky as can be.

No investor would invest on future spec because it’s not real money.

Dana won’t sell more than 15% because it would allow him to be the small stake owner being he owns 10%.

If the UFC wants to sell 10% – show me the books and I’ll make you an offer. No kidding

wow…people are high strung about this…you guys need to get off your high horse once in awhile…have a beer…relax…have fun with it and not get so offensive

I know eh? As if you were serious about having 100 grand in your pockets.

I hear yah bradpittfightclub…
I didn’t take you seriously. Why on gods green earth would you have 100g’s in your pocket?

Everyone I know would tell you to keep it in your steel attache, chain attached to your left wrist.

You’ll never know what 1% of a Privatly owned Franchise is because not all earnings are or have to be reported.
If they want a serious offer someone will have their accountants audit the PL of the last 2 years. Minimum.

Well, if it’s only worth $500 million and not $1 billion then that means 1% is $5 million instead of $10 million. I’m back in, baby!

I have no clue what it’s really worth.

500 Million is a lot closer to reality than 1 Billion.
They don’t really OWN tangible things.

Do they own or lease HQ? They lease arenas so thats a debt not an assett and the fighters are contractors.
TUF is worth about 1/2 the Co value if I was guessing where the “lolly” was coming from. I would also like to know how much licensing is worth…

I think we could get to $500M.

Good joke jackass, Nick Diaz isn’t even in the UFC and 1% of a billion… a couple grand?

Cogito that whole post was a joke. Nothing to get angry about.

I’m trying to remember which interview/news report that had Dana White on it and the reporter stated that. It wasn’t Off The Record, but some other one….

Anyways, here’s just one report saying with the boom in MMA, the UFC should be worth about 1.5B by the end of 2010.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/328544/ufc_worth_over_one_billion_dollars.html

I highly doubt the UFC is worth only 500 million, no way they could have bought Pride for 80 Mil if that’s all they were worth.

Did you not hear that the holder would have no say on what goes on the contract the holder would have to sign would not allow him to do anything but sit back and hopefully enjoy watching his shares go up and eventually sell them to someone else when they want to retire so they can do the same.

flattened out since when? How come no one else can get a definite number on PPV’s except you intro? They don’t give out the final tallies yet you somehow know them? How is that?

No way in hell the UFC had/has more viewers/fans than the NFL or NCAA. My gosh you have GOT to be kidding me.

Jay don’t expect an answer from intro, as soon as someone questions his stupidity he disapears.

I know guru. I hate the dude. Biggest troll on this site hands down.

He’s a UFC hater I heard his name is Jerry Millen just search Jerry Millen MMA on you tube and you will see why LOL.

Oh, I see…so you say that there is no way that you can get definite numbers on PPV’s, but when someone says that the numbers are greater than the NFL, NHL, etc…you stand by the numbers?

Which one is it?…are the numbers definitely higher than the NFL, NHL, etc…or are there no definite numbers?

Can’t have it both ways, jay.

mma guru,

I think you mean to say “if someone questions his intellect he dissapears”…I’m fine with people when they “question my stupidity.”…..smart guy lol.

Quote me saying they did better numbers than those sports. Find it and quote me. I don’t know what those sports pull in anymore, nor do I care. I know that you can’t find numbers to say that the PPV is declining, that is all I said. The UFC is doing better than ever before and that makes you angry, I don’t care to compare MMA to NBA or NCAA or anything because I personally don’t care for other sports anymore. I use to play and watch all sports, boxing included. Now MMA is the only sport I watch or follow. Just to clear things for you Intro, I didn’t say they do better than anyone, I just want to know why you say the numbers are going down and why you know the numbers when no one else in the world does.

Quote me saying they did better numbers than those sports

i can’t quote you saying that but i can quote the numerous homosexual post you put up troll.

Hey intro you may wanna double check your spelling before you attempt to attack someones grammar, smart guy lol

danny OR SHOULD I JUST CALL YOU INTRO? Why be that immarture? I stated a fact, you tried to call me out for having a double standard which simply wasn’t true, I never said the words you accused me of, and this is what you do? You use to defend yourself with the name ‘shogun’ and I didn’t call you out for it. Now this? Why not use the same name you started the argument with and man up a little? You aren’t funny or entertaining. I don’t even understand the whole gay thing, I called you gay a couple times and that is suppose to do what to me? Am I gay for calling you gay? Like the “I’m rubber you are glue” deal or what? Make sense and grow up, two things for you to work on. I’m not a troll in the slightest bit, I never say things to get a rise from people, I don’t make up stories to gain the interests of other posters, I just continue to be me here, unlike you danny and intro and shogun whatever you are calling yourself right now.

good old moderation. danny or intro whatever name you are going by right now, grow up.

Quote me where I said that the UFC PPV numbers are going down.

I stated that they are flattening out…which is true.

All I’m saying is that this “meteoric rise” (which doesn’t make any sense…meteors fall) is not what UFC’s fans make it out to be, because in order for the sport to rise…the numbers need to go up….they aren’t.

How do you know what the numbers are doing? Not that I am arguing, but how would you know? I would have to agree that the numbers probably are flattening out. Who in the world doesn’t watch MMA yet and is becoming a fan now? Besides kids coming of age, the word is out there, if you aren’t buying PPV’s yet the chances of you buying them next month are pretty slim. So I agree that they may have hit a plateau.

Until the next generation is old enough to buy, or countries that don’t pay for PPV’s(England and others) the numbers probably have reached the high point.

DIceman, if you watched the video, then you would know that Bloomberg reported that the UFC has more viewers, I didn’t make it up.

Intro, you’ve been talking a lot of sense recently but here you’re coming across as bitter. How are the UFC PPVs flattening? 3 shows ago they had the biggest selling PPV of the year and the biggest buyrate for an MMA card ever in UFC 100, plus had great success with 101 and 102. The only PPV that backs up your argument is a weaker card in 103 that was in competition with the biggest boxing card of the year and did not have a title fight or a big draw in the main event. I guarantee that 106 will have huge numbers, so your argument lacks substance. The fact is the UFC have just put on successful shows with their biggest stars and they’re not set to fight again until 106, 107 and 108, so in between then the cards won’t be as popular or as stacked.

Why complain about random facts from a joke of a video that as UFC Champ said was probabaly from years ago? The UFC is doing well and is growing all of the time, with a card set to take place in Australia as well as some huge PPVs coming up, any show with Brock, Tito and Forrest is guaranteed to make millions. SF are also set to pull in huge numbers on CBS with a good card albeit one that may be short, while boxing has a big fight set for November in Pacman-Cotto. I have no idea why you’re complaining about the growth in MMA or the UFC, if you’re a fight fan then you should be excited period. A dream fight is set to take place this weekend, why start an argument over nothing? All it does is take away from your other intelligent posts and cause conflict for no reason.