To hear Go Fight Live CEO David Klarman tell it, the Cage Fury Fighting Championships event that took place in Atlantic City, N.J., earlier this month was mostly notable for what wasn’t there. CFFC 43 marked the first time that the promotion, under its current ownership, had gone live with an actual, honest-to-goodness, buy-it-on-your-TV pay-per-view. But if you’d searched the arena and the parking lot at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa that night, you’d have found no satellite truck, no fiber-optic hookup, nothing that usually accompanies a PPV broadcast at considerable expense. “Just to get a satellite truck to a venue, even with the smaller ones, you’re looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000,” Klarman told MMAjunkie. “Then you have to pay for the satellite time.” Before you know it, you’ve dropped $20,000 just to get your event to the PPV distributor, which, when you factor in other production costs associated with shooting and airing a live MMA event, means you’re already in the hole as a promoter
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This tech innovation a pay-per-view game-changer? One regional promoter hopes so – MMA Junkie