{"id":285461,"date":"2018-09-20T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=285461"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:31:16","slug":"dana-white-claims-ufc-229-is-trending-to-sell-2-5-million-pay-per-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/dana-white-claims-ufc-229-is-trending-to-sell-2-5-million-pay-per-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White claims UFC 229 is trending to sell 2.5 million pay-per-views"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that UFC 229, which will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between undefeated champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and former two-division champion Conor McGregor<\/a>, is going to be big. According to UFC President Dana White, however, it’s trending to be the biggest UFC pay-per-view ever by a huge margin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s massive,\u201d White told ESPN this week (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThere has been a lot of talk about this thing doing 2 million buys. We\u2019re trending right now at 2.5 million buys so that\u2019s how big this fight is. The biggest fight we\u2019d ever done was Diaz vs. McGregor at almost 1.6 million pay-per-view buys. Then we did the Floyd Mayweather fight. And now this by far is the biggest fight and one of the biggest fights ever in combat sports to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

White went on to discuss the UFC’s working relationship with Conor McGregor. Apparently, it’s a healthy relationship \u2014 barring a few issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cConor works very well with us,” he said. “We work well with him. There\u2019s certain things you have to deal with Conor McGregor but he\u2019s worth it. For example, the New York thing. The fact he thought he could come here and have this beef with Khabib in the middle of New York City and the way that it was done that was obviously the craziest thing. Normal, typical stuff for Conor is showing up an hour late for press conferences.”<\/p>\n

White added that he believes it’s Conor McGregor’s love of fighting \u2014 not his love of money \u2014 that has pulled him back to the Octagon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI said this might be the last time you see Conor McGregor when you make his kind of money,” he said. “He loves to fight. The reality is this \u2014 when you make a lot of money when you haven\u2019t had money \u2014 you go out and buy a bunch of things, you take care of your family and do some fun stuff but it gets old real quick. It took Conor two years and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

UFC 229 goes down on October 6 inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. How many PPVs do you think the card will sell?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that UFC 229, which will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between undefeated champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and former two-division champion Conor McGregor, is going to be big. 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