Mixed Martial Arts has come along way as a sport in last couple of decades with UFC setting the standard in MMA. It was not long ago when MMA was barely heard of, MMA was pretty much illegal in many countries but since UFC started to gain momentum it became a money making mechine for the fighters and for UFC itself. Some of the greatest MMA fighters has headlined UFC PPV events over the last 10 years.
We are just 1 week away from one of the most anticipated UFC 194 fight between Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo on 12 december 2015. It is widely predicted that this will be the fight which will break “UFC 100” long standing 1.6 million ppv sales record or atleast come close to it. So considering we are just a week away from massive fight here is the highest grossing UFC fight cards of all times.
NO#1. UFC 100 (Highest Grossing UFC PPV Fight Card):
Total PPV Buys: 1,600,000
Gate Receipts: $5.12 million
Total Revenue: $82 million
Brock Lesnar has headlined 4 of the top 6 highest grossing UFC fight cards of all times. The biggest so far in terms of PPV buys was historic “UFC 100” card back in July 2009 where Brock Lesnar fought Frank Mir and Georges St-Pierre defeated Thiago Alves. A total of 1.6 million ppv were sold bringing in $82 million in revenue.
More than 10,000 people attended the night at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and the gate receipts were disclosed at $5,12 million. Which took the total revenue from this fight card to a massive $82 million. Since than UFC has failed to hit that mark although they came close on couple of occasions.
Here is the list of top 10 Highest grossing UFC PPV events. The numbers stated below are officialy disclosed by UFC and navada fighting commission.
| UFC | MAIN-EVENT | PPV SOLD | GROSS REVENUE | |
| 1 | UFC 100 (July 2009) | Lesnar vs Mir | 1,600,000 | $82 Million |
| 2 | UFC 116 (July 2010) | Lesnar vs Carwin | 1,116,000 | $55 million |
| 3 | UFC 158 (March 2013) | St-Pierre vs Diaz | 1,110,000 | $48 million+ |
| 4 | UFC 168 (December 2013) | Weidman vs Silva 2 | 1,110,000 | $53 million+ |
| 5 | UFC 66 (December 2006) | Liddell vs Ortiz II | 1,050,000 | $53 million+ |
| 6 | UFC 121 (October 2010) | Lesnar vs Velasquez | 1,050,000 | $45 million+ |
| 7 | UFC 91 (November 2008) | Lesnar vs Couture | 1,010,000 | $47 million+ |
| 8 | UFC 92 (December 2008) | Griffin-Evans & Silva-Rampage | 1,000,000 | |
| 9 | UFC 148 (July 2012) | Silva vs Sonnen II | 1,000,000 | |
| 10 | UFC 94 (January 2009) | St-Pierre vs Penn 2 | 920,000 |
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