The fight between Ronda (left) and Holm (right) will still have updated sales figures. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
UFC 193 has already entered the history of Ultimate as the event with the largest audience ever recorded on a fight night for the organization, in addition to being the stage for the historic first defeat of UFC's career. Ronda Rousey – knocked out by the new women’s bantamweight champion Holly holm. Now, however, the card can put its name in the record books again in another regard as well: sales of packs of cards. pay-per-view.
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The numbers are still preliminary, but UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta said that the night of fights held in Australia already secured third place and, with the updated data, it could reach second place. “Currently, UFC 193 is in third place and is on track to be second only to UFC 100. The fight between Ronda Rousey e Holly holm sold more than a million pay-per-views”, said the director, to the North American website “Yahoo”.
To date, the record for PPV sold in a single event is the historic UFC 100, which was on the same card Brock Lesnar e Georges St Pierre. The card, held in 2011, sold no less than 1,6 million packages. The last time an Ultimate event broke the 1 million mark pay-per-view marketed was in December 2013, when the rematch between Anderson Silva e Chris Weidman won 1,025 million.
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