Georges St-Pierre is leading the
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in most takedowns landed as of March 2022, followed by Gleison Tibau with 84 takedowns and Demetrious Johnson with 74 takedowns during
UFC fights. At the same point in time Donald Cerrone holds the record for
most knockdowns in the UFC with a total of 20. Georges St-Pierre was recently surpassed by the record for
most strikes landed, by Max Holloway with 3,056 landed strikes 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.