10 Highest Selling UFC PPVs In History
7. UFC 116 - 1,160,000 Buys
Say what you want about Brock Lesnar – whether that’s in a pro wrestling or an MMA context – but The Beast brings eyes to whatever he does.
Lesnar’s UFC career may not have hit the heights that it really could’ve hit – the multiple-time WWE Champion’s life-threatening battle with diverticulitis obviously causing some major issues – but Brock was still a dominant force of nature for a spell during his initial run with the UFC.
After defeating the legendary Randy Couture to become UFC Heavyweight Champion at November 2008’s UFC 91, Lesnar would eventually go up against interim Heavyweight Champ Shane Carwin at July 2010’s UFC 116 to unify the belts.
Brock would get the submission win in the second round, and the event itself would actually go on to win the Best Major Show of 2010 in the annual Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards – which marked the first time that a UFC show had picked up that award.
On that July 2010 night, the MGM Grand crowd of nearly 18,000 totalled a gate of $2 million to add to the 1.16 million PPV buys that UFC 116 had done.