UFC 230 was hoped to be one of the year’s biggest shows.
At the press conference, Dana White talked about it being the second biggest pay-per-view of the year, obviously trailing last month’s UFC 229.
He wasn’t clear on what that meant, since it would be too early to get accurate pay-per-view numbers. By the end of the show, UFC would have its own streaming pay-per-view numbers, and that would be expected to be a strong indicator.
But the early results are mixed.
The prelims on FS 1 averaged 635,000 viewers, which would be the lowest number for FS 1 prelims since UFC 215, on Sept.