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Will Mayweather-Pacquiao numbers hurt the next UFC pay-per-view events?

UFC's next four events on pay-per-view should all do reasonably well, if not well above usual levels. The question becomes how much will they be hurt after so many people plucked down so much money for Mayweather-Pacquiao.

When UFC 187 was first put together - with the combination of a Jon Jones light heavyweight title defense against Anthony "Rumble" Johnson , Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort for the middleweight title and a lightweight top contenders fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Donald Cerrone - it looked like the first UFC event in more than a year that could threaten the one million buy mark.