6. Brock Lesnar- $16 Million
Lesnar has also made quite a bit of money off of his deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, but nobody can argue how much money Lesnar has drawn as an MMA fighter.
In his first two fights with the UFC, Lesnar wasn’t the main event, but you could argue he was the biggest draw. Those events, UFCs 81 and 87 (loss to Mir, defeated Herring) did over 600,000 buys each during a period when only the biggest fights could achieve such numbers. His next fight with Randy Couture drew over a million buys, just the 3rd UFC event to do so at the time.
Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir 2 was billed as the main event of UFC 100. The 1.6 million buys that show did was a longstanding UFC record until it was surpassed by UFC 196 earlier this year.
