If UFC 227’s estimated pay-per-view buyrate of 300,000 was considered a pleasant surprise, UFC 228 is the exact opposite of that.
According to Dave Meltzer in his Wrestling Observer Newsletter, this month’s fight card in Dallas, Texas may not have cleared even 150,000 buys.
“The 9/8 PPV numbers were well below expectations with Woodley vs. Till on top. They are so bad that we haven’t gotten an estimate past an early number of 130,000 that was going around,” Meltzer wrote.
This would be on par with UFC 221 in terms of number of buys, and while we never got any solid information, UFC 224: Nunes vs.