The Top 10 Selling PPVs Across All Sports Since 2018: A Detailed Analysis

[Naoya#1]

The fuy Wilder fight sold 1. 2 million

Roy fight is still growing but I would say Max 2. 5 million

The ksi fight was global

So what we have Learned is that very good ufc cards sell more than trash boxing cards (90% of time).

Also its crazy that WWE is still a thing.. It's one of the toughest scenes.

 

[storeybuckle]

Ok, this list was actually very hard to make. I had to go through many different sources.

The Top 10 Selling PPVs Since 2018 Across Sports:

1. Khabib vs McGregor: 2.5 million buys (MMA)
2. Mike Tyson vs RJJ/ Jake Paul vs Nate Robinson: 1.6 million buys (Boxing)
3. Logan Paul vs KSI: 1.3 million buys (Boxing)
4. Canelo vs Golovkin II: 1.1 million buys (Boxing)
5. McGregor vs Cerrone: 1.0 million buys (MMA)
6. Fury vs Wilder II: 1.2 million buys (Boxing)
7. Fury vs Wilder I: 875,000 buys (Boxing)
8. Jones vs Gus II: 700,000 buys (MMA)
9. Adesanya vs Costa: 700,000 buys (MMA)
10. Ferguson vs Gaethje: 700,000 buys (MMA)

Methodology:

• The MMA numbers were easy to find. That only took a few minutes.
• The boxing numbers were really hard to find, and I spent a lot of time trying to find them. I don't think I got them all.
• I added Jake Paul and Nate Robinson as part the headline on Mike Tyson vs RJJ because they got paid with PPV points.

Analysis:

• It looks like boxing is less consistent. However, when it sells, it sells big.
• MMA is much more consistent. Lots of guys can sell decently under the UFC brand name.
• Logan Paul vs Floyd Mayweather is probably going to sell more PPVs than anything the UFC has ever put on, considering that Conor vs Floyd did 4.5 million buys.
• WrestleMania 34 and WrestleMania 35 SHOULD be on here, but they switched to the WWE Network. They easily should have the 500,000 + numbers, and probably 1 million + numbers.

A big factor missing from your analysis is the price point for each pay-per-view. For example , Logan Paul versus KSI was priced very low comparatively to a typical UFC or Fury vs Wilder 2