Eyebrows were raised last week when an industry insider told the Los Angeles Times that UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero had not even cleared 150,000 pay-per-view buys. A UFC attorney shot down that claim, saying that number was off by “something in excess of six figures.”
Well MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer has his PPV estimates, and it turns out “in excess of six figures” is roughly 100,000 buys, making the new total 250,000 when including online purchases.
Industry sources with knowledge of the number pegged that as of the end of last week, it was estimated at doing about 250,000 buys, a number that would combine both the traditional television purchases and the streaming purchases.