Is Conor McGregor claiming that UFC 196 did 2 million PPV buys?

Conor McGregor claims that the UFC 196 PPV numbers blew UFC 100 out of the water, but does the math make sense?

For years now, UFC 100 has stood as the high PPV watermark for the UFC. An estimated 1.6 million buys, and nothing else has ever really come all that close. Well at least nothing until UFC 196, which Dana White himself revealed did somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million buys. Those are lofty numbers by themselves and have certified McGregor as an unquestionable superstar in MMA, but are they right? Maybe, maybe not.

Most of the PPV numbers we have for the UFC come as best guesses and estimates. The real, hard data is rarely ever released. Still it came as something of a shock…