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MEDIA & BUSINESS: An argument for variable pay-per-view pricing

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August 23, 2017

How many PPV buys will the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight have? More than 5 million, or less than 5 million? FRANK HYDEN, MMATorch Contributor I’m going to go with over 5 million buys. As I […]

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