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Published 01:28 13 Nov 2016 GMT
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Even accounting for inflation, Holyfield vs. Lewis still comes in behind UFC 205.
The November 12 event also exceeds the $12 million gate record for the UFC, which was set at UFC 129 in 2011 at Toronto's Rogers Centre, and will take some beating moving forward.
"I wanted to make sure when we went to New York, we delivered," UFC president Dana White recently said on Fox. "It's the biggest, baddest card we've ever done in the history of the company."
With three title fights on the card, it's hard to argue with White... Which is a sentence not often uttered.
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