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Zuffa Finances: The economics of a UFC event

Recently I posted an article detailing what we now know about the UFC’s finances. While it hopefully offered readers a large amount of new details, it was still limited to the annual totals. Aggregate amounts were not to be found. That’s the purpose of this article, to give a brief overview of the UFC’s finances at the event level.

Again, I’ve depended heavily on recently filed exhibits and reports from the UFC antitrust lawsuit (Le et al vs. Zuffa, LLC). My first table reprints information from the redacted Second Expert Report of Hal J.