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It's official: nobody has made such a profit as Anderson and Sonnen!

Although the approximate information was released a few hours immediately after the fantastic UFC 148, now athletic commission confirmed the great numbers of the great event.

Rematch between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen took place nearly a month, according Dana White statement, was one of the greatest matches in UFC history, if not the greatest in his opinion. Immediately after the really fantastic UFC 148,  a number of seven million dollars was announced, and these were made ​​from ticket sales.

That number this week was formally approved by the Athletic Commission, which publishes such informations. To be more precise, for a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena 13 606 tickets were sold, 1498 of them were given, and the empty places left in the hall were 64!

Earnings from the tickets are $ 6,901,655, which means that the average price of tickets sold was a little over a whopping $ 500!

It would be interesting to know exactly how many PPV's were sold in the U.S., but this information still falls under the trade secrets of UFC.