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Is Conor McGregor claiming that UFC 196 did 2 million PPV buys?
- Updated: May 2, 2016
For years now, UFC 100 has stood as the high PPV watermark for the UFC. An estimated 1.6 million buys, and nothing else has ever really come all that close. Well at least nothing until UFC 196, which Dana White himself revealed did somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million buys. Those are lofty numbers by themselves and have certified McGregor as an unquestionable superstar in MMA, but are they right? Maybe, maybe not.
Most of the PPV numbers we have for the UFC come as best guesses and estimates. The real, hard data is rarely ever released. Still it came as something of a shock when Conor McGregor took to twitter today, claiming that he was, in fact, the owner of the UFC PPV sales record, besting UFC 100 by 400,000 buys:
Incorrect. I beat it by 400,000 buys.Which alone was …
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