10 Highest Selling UFC PPVs In History

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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