WWE vs. UFC, Who Makes More Money?

(This was written in a fight with my friend that WWE does make more money than UFC)

With all the recent success of the UFC, many fans will be lead to believe that the WWE does not make nearly as much money as Dana White and the UFC. UFC 100's biggest PPV, UFC 100, grossed a total of 5.1 million dollars, second place to their largest total of 5.4 million dollars (Liddell vs. Ortiz). The WWE pay per view Wrestlemania 25, grossed 6.9 million dollars, their best PPV amount ever. There was approximately 1 million PPV buys for the Wrestlemania 25 event, and over 70,000 people in attendence (70,744). The UFC only had about 900,000 purchases, and had only 10,871 attendees, 9,793 paid. The remaining tickets were given for free for what is to believed to fill up the arena. The WWE's pay per view purchases made them approximately 49,990,000 dollars, where UFC made approximately 40,455,000 dollars, about 9 .5 million dollars less then the WWE. If we assume all tickets are worth 20 dollars, the UFC had have made 195,860 dollars off tickets while the WWE would have made 14,000,000 dollars, about 71 times as much money as UFC. The UFC will continue to increase their profits, but the WWE remains on top.

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