When MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer tracked early pay-per-view buys for this month’s UFC 216 show in Las Vegas, he put the projection at roughly 120,000 buys, or 20% more than September’s UFC 215, which featured a main event between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko. Now that a couple of weeks have passed, it looks as if 216 did better than initial post-fight estimators suggested.
According to Meltzer’s latest info from his Wrestling Observer newsletter: (Subscription only)
The UFC 216 show on 10/7 headlined by Tony Ferguson vs.