The Boston Red Sox’s beloved Fenway Park may have the longest sold-out streak in the history of Major League Baseball, but it’s never hosted a crowd as big as the one expected for UFC 129.
Now that all 55,000 seats for UFC 129 at Toronto’s Rogers Centre have been sold , Dana White‘s organization can now claim to have broken the old MMA paid-attendance record of 23,152 at the Montreal’s Bell Centre set in December of 2010, reports Mike Chiappetta.
On top of that, UFC spokespeople told Chiappetta that the gate receipts may surpass $10 million, which could make this the first-ever eight-figure MMA event. The old record is held by UFC 66 in Las Vegas for $5.4 million.
Welterweight title-holder Georges St. Pierre and challenger Jake Shields will be meeting for the championship belt in the main event in Toronto.
