Saturday’s UFC 230, headlined by Daniel Cormier’s first defense of his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis, is currently estimated at doing 250,000 pay-per-view buys, which would be normal levels for 2018.
The number is well down from the 375,000 estimate of Cormier’s title win over Stipe Miocic on July 7, which along with the Jan. 20 show with Cormier vs. Volkan Oezdemir and Miocic vs, Francis Ngannou, were the two biggest numbers this year outside of UFC 229.
There are a number of factors that probably hurt the number, including the highest-rated college football game of the season with Alabama vs.