{"id":119851,"date":"2014-11-20T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=119851"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:08:14","slug":"sp-drops-zuffa-rating-outlook-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sp-drops-zuffa-rating-outlook-10\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P drops Zuffa rating outlook by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/sp-drops-zuffa-rating-outlook-10\/dana-confused\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119852\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused.png\" alt=\"Dana confused\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Dana-confused-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Standard and Poor (S&#038;P) initially estimated that Zuffa&#8217;s earnings would be down 30% this year.<\/p>\n<p>This week they released another report, which estimated Zuffa&#8217;s earnings 10% lower than their original report, having them down a total of 40% from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Fight fans need not fear however, the S&#038;P attributed the drop in earning to <em>&#8220;A change to a marquee fight card in the fourth quarter of 2014, a result of another fighter injury causing anticipated pay-per-view buys and event ticket prices to decline further, as well as higher remarketing expenses for the event, and additional costs related to the company\u2019s international expansion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other words, the drop in rating comes as a result of the numerous injuries to high profile PPV events such as Jones vs. Cormier, Weidman vs. Belfort, and Velasquez vs. Werdum to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Note: figures estimated before &#8216;taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization&#8217;.<br \/>\n(S&#038;P quote courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/11\/sp-revises-rating-outlook-for-zuffa-now-says-earnings-down-40-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Standard and Poor (S&#038;P) initially estimated that Zuffa&#8217;s earnings would be down 30% this year. This week they released another report, which estimated Zuffa&#8217;s earnings 10% lower than their original report, having them down a total of 40% from last year. Fight fans need not fear however, the S&#038;P attributed the drop in earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":119852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,9,11,9535,9534,15,1098],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>S&amp;P drops Zuffa rating outlook by 10% | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/sp-drops-zuffa-rating-outlook-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"S&amp;P drops Zuffa rating outlook by 10% | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Standard and Poor (S&#038;P) initially estimated that Zuffa&#8217;s earnings would be down 30% this year. 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