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Jorge Masvidal is a ‘big star’ admits Dana White as UFC 251 draws 1.3 million PPV buys
- ‘Gamebred’ reveals he ‘took a gamble on myself’ by turning down original deal to secure pay-per-view points for Kamaru Usman fight
- ‘Fine, don’t give me much guaranteed money, but if I bring in numbers I wanna be compensated for it,’ Masvidal says
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If Dana White didn’t know Jorge Masvidal moves the needle, now he knows.
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Sunday’s stacked UFC 251 card on Fight Island – headlined by Masvidal’s unsuccessful tilt at Kamaru Usman’s welterweight title – drew a gigantic 1.3 million pay-per-view buys. It was the most for a UFC event since Conor McGregor lost to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018, which did a record 2.4 million buys.
“He’s a big star,” admitted White at a media scrum in Abu Dhabi, ahead of Thursday’s UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Ige event.
“It was a very successful event,” the UFC president said. “We’re happy. This thing killed across the board in every way you could possibly kill it. It was awesome.
“I said it to you guys the other night, I think when you put on a fight – a successful promotion of an event – this is a big melting pot of different things.
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