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UFC 229 attendance, gate and bonuses

October 7, 2018 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

UFC 229 set an attendance and gate record for MMA events in Nevada on Saturday night.

The event which was marred by a post-fight melee involving Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmogomedov had some great fights too.  The event was a sell-out at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The co-main event of Tony Ferguson-Anthony Pettis won Fight of the Night.  The Performance Bonus went to Derrick Lewis and Aspen Ladd for their performances.

The event was a complete sellout and drew 20,034 for a gate of $17.2 million.  The gate is second only to the UFC’s debut at MSG for 205.  McGregor-Alvarez drew 17.7 million.

Payout Perspective:

For obvious reasons, Khabib was not rewarded with a bonus.  Ladd and Lewis had great performances for differing reasons.  Ladd had a dominant performance while Lewis was losing for most of his fight before finally using his power to stop Alexander Volkov.  The UFC did record numbers for the press conference, weigh-ins and the event.  Will the UFC score a PPV record? All signs point to it coming at least close to 1.5M.

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