Donald Cerrona is leading the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in most knockdowns landed as of March 2022, followed by Anderson Silva and Jeremy Stephens, both with 18 knockdowns during UFC fights. At the same point in time George St-Pierre holds the record for most takedowns in the UFC with a total of 90 during UFC fights.
474 UFC fight in 2018
In 2018, a total of 39 UFC events were hosted around the world featuring 474 fights. The highest live attendance in 2018 was at UFC Fight Night 136 – Hunt vs Oleinik with 22,603 ringside spectators and the highest attendance to date was at UFC 193 – Rousey vs Holm in 2015 with 56,214 attendees.
Pay-Per-View
In 2017, the UFC was among the 10 most valuable sports business brands worldwide which is in part thanks to its’ Pay-Per-View (PPV) business model. The average number of PPV buys has fluctuated over the years, standing at an average of 447 thousand buys per event in 2018. The most successful event in terms of PPV buys was UFC 229 – Khabib vs McConor in 2018 with roughly 2.4 million buys.
Most knockdowns landed by fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) worldwide as of March 2022
The source adds the following information: "Records reflect all UFC fights from UFC 28 to the present (UFC 28 was the first event to use the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts)."
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FightMetric. (March 17, 2022). Most knockdowns landed by fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) worldwide as of March 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 06, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/675679/ultimate-fighting-championship-most-knock-downs-landed-by-fighters-uk/
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