Chapter 528 - Earn extra money to advertise
"100 million US dollars for appearance fees?"
The monster felt that Meng Fan might be crazy.
The highest single-game appearance fee in UFC history is the 3.5 million US dollar knife of "Mouth Cannon" Conor McGregor, even if "Mouth Cannon" has crossed the boxing ring and boxing champion Mayweather has received a higher appearance fee, it is only 30 million US dollars.
You have to know whether it is a crossover to the boxing ring, or a fight with Mayweather, which is the most expensive arena in the world, and that is also the result of a commercial win-win situation for both events.
The appearance fee can get hundreds of millions of US dollars, all of which are the products of commercial promotion, and all of them occur in the boxing ring with a larger operating space.
Like the UFC, although it is known as the top ten all-round fighting arenas, and it is also the most recognized ring that can produce the world's strongest fighting king, it cannot be compared with boxing in terms of commercial value.
Take the current UFC No. 1 monster as an example, his appearance fee is up to 2 million US dollars per game.
As soon as Meng Fan opened his mouth, it was 100 million US dollars, 50 times that of him!
Not crazy anything!
The monster didn't know how to reply at all when Meng Fan said this.
Meng Fan seemed to see the monster's right to speak, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Just go back and bring the words, don't think about it, you can't be the master anyway." ”
"Oh. ”
The monster nodded, and when he saw Meng Fan leaving, he always felt that something was weird.
I'm here to make an appointment, so I don't think this matter has much to do with him.
"What did he say?"
A short UFC executive who followed the monster saw the monster coming out of it and asked curiously, "What did you just say?"
As the monster walked out, he repeated what Meng Fan had just said.
"Is he crazy?"
When the short man heard this, he had the same look as the monster.
The monster didn't say anything like me, but threw out Meng Fan's words: "Don't think about it, you can't be the master anyway, just bring a message to the top." ”
After saying this, I was immediately refreshed.
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As soon as the monster Joey Howard appeared in the judo arena to meet Meng Fan, it immediately pushed the "world's strongest" battle to the peak of public opinion.
This incident was originally very eye-catching, but now this encounter is like Mars hitting the earth, and it has been given some different and unspeakable meanings, and has been called "gods and monsters" by netizens.
Not only Huamei, but the whole world is paying attention to this matter.
With the exception of a very small minority, 99.99% of people hope that a result will be achieved.
......
"Promise him!"
Hearing Meng Fan's request, the UFC speaker was completely different from the reaction of the monster and the short high-level, and immediately agreed after a little thought.
Of course, 100 million appearance fees are sky-high for them, and it is also a figure that has never appeared in the history of UFC, and even many people think that UFC will not appear in the future, but they still agreed, and they promised quite happily.
The reason is as simple and direct as ever, from the beginning to the present, the purpose is the same, that is, to rub Meng Fan's popularity and pull Meng Fan to create greater popularity, so as to increase the popularity and ratings of UFC events.
The appearance fee of 100 million US dollars is expensive, but it is within the acceptable range!
"Wait!"
The person who said stopped and was about to tell Meng Fan that he agreed to his request, and said, "You don't need to inform him privately, let's just hold a press conference." This money is earned for him, but it can't be made so comfortably for him, he must be disgusted!"
From the beginning, they didn't go with a win-win mentality like the previous cross-border ring match, even at the beginning, they didn't invite Meng Fan to fight in the UFC with an equal attitude, but now they may have an equal mentality, but the means they used are not to talk about it, but to repeatedly provoke Meng Fan as a means to force him to fight, instead of sitting down and talking about the benefits and everything clearly.
This time it was even more so, when the press conference was held, he threw out Meng Fan's request, and showed Meng Fan's "face" of asking for money in front of the reporter, and then said something similar to not fighting for steamed buns, as if he was forced to agree without being helpless, and even colluded with the reporter to convey the person behind why the previous public opinion was so big in the form of a question and an answer, of course, it was Meng Fan.
And the media here didn't plan to write about Meng Fan well, so that it could better highlight the Spring and Autumn penmanship, and not long after, Meng Fan's face jumped on the page when he saw Qian Yan's eyes and stirred up trouble.
After that, it must be a big momentum, pushing this "gods and monsters" war to another peak of public opinion, ticketing, copyright sales, broadcasting, live broadcasts, advertisements and other purchases flocked to the UFC's side, which made the UFC executives a little surprised, I thought that the 100 million appearance fee was a "long-term investment", but I didn't expect that I could recover the capital when I saw it!
I have to sigh at Meng Fan's high popularity and the amount of topics!
However, just when the UFC side was almost carnival, Meng Fan had a problem, not that he regretted not fighting, but that he wanted to fight in advance.
The UFC released the news in a week, and the preparation time can be said to be very short, but it is enough for them to hype public opinion to the highest point, and they can also deal with other money-making projects, and what Meng Fan is proposing now is that on the third day of their press conference, they are halfway ready but not ready.
For a while, the UFC was fried, and the person directly found the hotel where Meng Fan and the others were, but then went back in disgrace.
They unilaterally announced this game, and used public opinion to smear Meng Fan, and at the same time forced Meng Fan to play this game, thinking that it was nine out of ten, but they didn't expect Meng Fan to be shameless to this point to modify the time, the most important thing is that they have not Meng Fan's appearance fee so far, and there has been no agreement on the time and place of the game.
It is said that it is not impossible to advance in advance, but the key is that they have received so many advertisements, live broadcasts, broadcasts and other cooperation, and it really doesn't matter if the ticket is issued, although the modification time will not compensate for double the cost of the agreement, but the loss of money is certain. This loss has pushed their expectations of recovering their costs far away.
Finally arrived on the day of the competition, and finally saw Meng Fan appear in the arena, the UFC side was completely relieved, they now believe that Meng Fan is definitely the kind of person who will not come if he can't come.
"Huaxia Meng, why did you agree to this competition? Is it really for money?"
When Meng Fan entered, the arranged reporters surrounded him and asked aggressive questions similar to this.
Meng Fan smiled and nodded: "It's rare to come here, and it's good to make some extra money and go back." ”
"What do you have to say about the public opinion that you single-handedly promoted this game to earn eyeballs?"
"I like the way you can't get used to me, but you can't kill me and can only scold the street. ”
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The UFC found that it was a little out of control, so it hurriedly "protected" Meng Fan and went inside, always feeling that these reporters had been bought.
Finally arrived in the ring, and all eyes were on it.
The referee read out the rules and was about to signal the start of the game, but Meng Fan took out a microphone.
"Guys, I'll delay you for a few minutes. It's rare to have so many people today, so I'll advertise somewhat. ”