If/when the sport is sanctioned in New York, how long before youd be ready to have an event?
If it’s approved in, say, May, could you turn around and put on an event a month later? Yes, we’ve put together cards in that short a time span before. But I have a deal in place to have a fight at Madison Square Garden, and I want to do that one right. You have to set up all the fights, let guys train for a fight…I wouldn’t want to rush that one. What are the ramifications of a Georges St.-Pierre win against BJ Penn? And what if Penn wins? I’m not worried about that; I’m worried about the fight itself. I think it’s going to be the biggest fight we’ve ever done. The last Lesnar pay-per-view did really well, and then our Dec. 27 show crushed it. When you say it crushed it, are we talking a million buys for Griffin/Evans? I don’t want to get into numbers too much—that’s our policy. But it crushed it. I’ll say this: The Christmas show crushed the Lesnar fight by 150,000-175,000 buys. Were you surprised by that? No, I wasn’t surprised; I was happy. I was f’ing thrilled. We lowballed our pr
