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Stats & Facts about Combat sports

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Boxing

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Floyd 'Money' Mayweather has taken part in the top 3 most viewed pay per view fights. 

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- One of the biggest fight this year was Canelo vs Gennedy Golovkin (GGG) 2. It was a sold out show with 20,000 sold ticket. Furthermore, more that 1.3 million people bought the fight online. 

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- The biggest fight this year was when the mixed martial arts superstar came to boxing to fight one of the greatest fighters of all time, Floyd Mayweather. According to ESPN the fight reached between 4 million and 5 million pay-per-view (PPV) sales with an estimated 50 million people watching in the United States alone.

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- Fighter who take part in huge pay per view fights are rewarded greatly. According to Forbes Floyd Mayweather was payed 300 million dollar for his 10th round knock out over Conor Mcgregor. 

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UFC

- 2018 has been an amazing year for UFC. There have been incredible fights and UFC gained millions of fans. 

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- Many UFC fighters gained millions of fans from fighting and this year a lot of them blew up. For example, Khabib Nurmagomedov gained 3 million Instagram followers in 24 hours. 

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- UFC also broke many records with one of their most successful fight nights ever. UFC 229 became the biggest UFC fight of the year. It was a sold out show in T mobile arena and surpassed more than three milliion PPV buys. 

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-  Even though Conor Mcgrgor tapped out in the 4th round, he still got more money than Khabib. Khabib won 2 million dollors where as Conor won 3 million dollars. 

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