We still don’t know yet when former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is going to return to the Octagon, but UFC president Dana White is sure that she will be back. And we she does return, White is adamant that it will be a blockbuster event. “I think Ronda Rousey’s return will be the biggest pay-per-view we’ve ever done,” White said on Thursday’s edition of The Herd on FS1 , when asked if Rousey’s return could be bigger than Conor McGregor’s recent rematch with Nate Diaz. MMAFighting.com’s Dave Meltzer , considered the foremost expert on UFC pay-per-view numbers, reports early estimates for UFC 202 at 1.2 to 1.5 million buys, etching it among the top three pay-per-views in UFC history. RELATED > Dana White Video: Weighing in on Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, and Georges St-Pierre That certainly says something about Rousey’s current star power, as well as the progression of female athletes in mixed martial arts in general. There once was a time when White never would have imagined women in the Octagon, let alone a woman being the biggest draw in the promotion’s history. “If you’d told me 15 years ago that women would be fighting in the UFC, and if you told me that women would be as technically sound as the men and the fights would be loved by millions of people all over the world and it would be the hottest thing going on in the UFC, I would have never believed it,” said White.
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When Ronda Rousey Returns, It’s Going to Be Biggest UFC Pay-Per-View Ever – MMA Weekly