If you believe Dana White, the Money Fight set the bar for PPV buys.
According to UFC president Dana White, Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather broke the PPV record set by 2015’s Fight of the Century.
The prizefight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao raked in 4.6 million buys, shattering the previous record set by Mayweather’s 2007 bout against Oscar De La Hoya which drew around 2.5 million. Just below that, we had another Mayweather fight, his 2013 fight against Canelo Alvarez which earned 2.2 million buys.
An Instagram story from UFC legend Urijah Faber got everyone excited about MayMac setting a new record, but this was shot down by a report which claimed it came up just shy of the mark. However, White maintains that the crossover megafight is top of the pile.
Just shy https://t.co/9oJcryBmyR
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) September 27, 2017
In a recent appearance on the Wall Street Journal’s Unnamed Podvideocast, White explained all the records the money fight to end all money fights broke.
“We broke the record. The thing ended up doing 6.7 million pay-per-view buys globally. How about this, we broke the record in Australia, we broke the record in the U.K. at 4 in the morning – 4 in the morning we broke the pay-per-view record. We broke the record in Spain, Canada, and the United States.”
That is certainly an increase in the global buyrate that was suggested in Faber’s story, but we don’t know how much it broke the record by in the domestic US market. White never mentioned a figure and the interviewer never asked him to give one.
So, I guess we’ll just have to take his word for it?
