Jones vs. Cormier 2 estimated at doing 860,000 buys

The UFC pay-per-view business bounced back strongly after a 2017 that had seen shows estimated at doing between 130,000 to 300,000. UFC 214, headlined by Jon Jones' return and his winning the UFC light heavyweight championship from Daniel Cormier, is currently projected to do approximately 860,000 buys on pay-per-view based on cable estimates.
The number would have solidly beaten most projections going into the fight, that ranged from 550,000 to 700,000. It was in the same ballpark of the first