UFC set two records at UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm on Saturday night for the event that featured Holly Holm’s shocking second round knockout of Ronda Rousey.
The event, which was held inside Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday, set the new all-time attendance record for a UFC event, as the promotion announced an official attendance of 56,214.
The Rousey-Holm headlined event broke the previous record of 55,724 for the UFC 129 pay-per-view headlined by Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It’s worth noting, however, that UFC 129 remains the largest gate in UFC history, as the GSP-Shields event drew $11 million compared to a gate of $6.8 million for Saturday’s UFC 193 event.
With the big house for Rousey-Holm, UFC has set two of their top three biggest crowds in history in 2015, as the third most attended event in company history took place back in January, as an estimated crowd of 30,000 fans were in attendance inside Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe Arena to watch Anthony Johnson knockout hometown favorite Alexander Gustafsson in the main event of UFC On FOX 14.
UFC President Dana White posted the following on Twitter regarding the new UFC all-time attendance record.
Tonight was the biggest gate in @EtihadStadiumAU history and we broke the @UFC attendance record. Thank u Australia! pic.twitter.com/KPtdOp0GbP
— Dana White (@danawhite) November 15, 2015
For complete round-by-round results of the UFC 193: Rousey vs. Holm pay-per-view, click here. You can also watch full-fight video highlights of the Rousey-Holm fight here.
