20 WWE Extreme Rules Facts You Didn't Know
18. Highest Buy-Rate
Extreme Rules 2012 produced the strongest buyrate for the PPV—thanks largely to the return of a certain Brock Lesnar.
Headlining the show with John Cena, the Beast Incarnate helped the show bring in 263,000 buys—up more than 25% on the previous year.
263,000 may not sound like a huge number, but for a “B-list” show in the modern age, that’s a really strong performance. To put that into some historic context, you’d have to go as far back as 2005 to a Backlash PPV that outperformed Extreme Rules 2012 at the box office.