Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor broke PPV records, according to Dana White.
Throughout his career, the American boxer generated an insane amount of interest. Mayweather earned a fortune to fight Miguel Cotto, Canelo Alvarez and Manny Pacquiao.
But his bout with the former UFC world champion created more of a buzz than anything the combat sports world had seen in a long time.
And unsurprisingly, that resulted in customers around the world opting to spend their hard-earned cash on watching the fight.
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Dana White says Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor did 6.5 million PPV buys
On August 26, 2017, Floyd Mayweather finished a brave Conor McGregor in the tenth round.
Having destroyed each other in the trash-talk department in the lead-up to the bout, fans across the world tuned in, with Dana White revealing that the contest did a massive amount of PPV buys.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Unnamed Podvideocast, he said: “We broke the record. The thing ended up doing 6.7 million pay-per-view buys globally.
“How about this — we broke the record in Australia, we broke the record in the UK at four in the morning. We broke the record in Spain, Canada, and the United States.”
Oscar De La Hoya made shock claim about the split for Floyd Mayweather fight
Mayweather was undoubtedly the A-side when he faced McGregor.
However, while that was the case with ‘The Notorious’, it wasn’t with Oscar De La Hoya.
When ‘Money’ faced ‘The Golden Boy’, it was the Mexican-American who was the big draw.
Interestingly, De La Hoya revealed how much more he was paid than Mayweather was.