UFC 129 set an attendance record with 55, 724 in attendance Saturday night in Toronto. The gate totaled $12.1 million ($11.5 million Canadian) according to MMA Junkie.
The records shattered the previous marks of 23,152 (UFC 124) $5,397,300 (UFC 66).
In addition, record bonuses were given to fighters tonight as the Submission, KO and Fight of the Night winners received $129,000 each (in honor of UFC 129 I suppose). A total of $516,000 of bonuses were handed out.
MMA Weekly reports the bonuses as follows:
Fight of the Night: Mark Hominick vs. Jose Aldo
Submission of the Night: Pablo Garza for his triangle choke of Yves Jabouin.
Knockout of the Night: Lyoto Machida for his crane kick on Randy Couture.
We will have more on the big night in Payout Perspective.
Your American to Canadian conversion is backwards – Can $ is above parity 1.05 last time I checked!