Perhaps there are a few sighs of relief at UFC headquarters.
UFC 217 was positioned and marketed as a marquee event, and decked it out with a little bit of everything. The card was topped with three title fights, had exciting young prospects and plenty of action fights. Seeing as this was pushed to be one of the biggest (if not the biggest) events of the year, and management had to have been banking on a major number for the event to do well.
Well, now we have an idea courtesy of Dave Meltzer over at MMAFighting:
Early estimates have UFC 217, the show on Nov.