10 Highest Selling UFC PPVs In History

by Andrew Pollard

1. UFC 229 - 2,400,000 Buys

Blowing every other UFC event out of the water, it’s last October’s UFC 229.

Headlined by Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor, Khabib tapped McGregor out during the fourth round to retain the UFC Lightweight Championship.

Elsewhere on the card, Tony Ferguson got a second-round TKO stoppage against Anthony Pettis in the Fight of the Night, while Derrick Lewis got an impressive knockout victory over Alexander Volkov.

Emanating from Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, the event had a whopping 2.4 million PPV buys in addition to a paid gate total of over $17 million from an in-attendance crowd of just over 20,000 fight fans.

Not only is this the biggest PPV in UFC history, it’s also one of the most notorious – no pun intended – PPVs in history for how an all-out brawl broke out following the main event contest between Khabib and Conor.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer and Presenter, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund and Eli Roth to Kevin Smith and the Russo Brothers, to Kevin Conroy and Frank Miller, to Bret Hart and Sting, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, and Brian Flynn, to many, many more. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is a long-standing season ticket holder and an FSA Award-winner for his time co-hosting the Fearless in Devotion podcast.