Conor McGregor shares underwhelming PPV sales number for UFC 302, calls it "a nothing burger"

Conor McGregor does not seem impressed with the UFC 302 PPV buys that he himself is reporting.

In the UFC 302 headliner on June 1, Islam Makhachev defended his UFC lightweight title via submission over Dustin Poirier on pay-per-view. Conor McGregor is still slated to headline UFC 303 on June 29 and did not seem complimentary of the PPV business from the company's previous effort headlined by his arch-rival Poirier.

In a since-deleted tweet, McGregor posted to his personal X platform:

"500k PPV buys 302 done. A nothing burger."

McGregor is the only one reporting these numbers so take it with a grain of salt. The Irishman will have a chance to dwarf the pay-per-view business of the offering from earlier in the month soon enough. Although some are still unsure if his looming fight with Michael Chandler will make it into the cage in less than a few weeks.

Check out Ariel Helwani's report on the latest McGregor-Chandler rumblings below:

Conor McGregor and his history on UFC pay-per-view

Conor McGregor is someone who can comment on what is and isn't a good night of pay-per-view business as he has been on some of the biggest PPVs the organization has ever done.

In numbers reported via Statista, the 35-year-old had an estimated 1.2 million pay-per-view buys when he unseated Jose Aldo from his throne to capture the featherweight championship in a matter of seconds at UFC 194.

Conor McGregor notched a reported 1.3 million PPV's when he became the champ-champ in a historic Madison Square Garden effort. He became the lightweight champion when he stopped Eddie Alvarez in that outing at UFC 205.

The Dublin native did some big business against Nate Diaz at UFC 196 and also in their rematch at UFC 202. The pay-per-view buys for those cards were clocked in at an estimated 1.32 million and 1.6 million amount, respectively.

'The Notorious' made a return to MMA after a fifteen-month layoff against Donald Cerrone UFC 246 and compiled a reported 1.35 million PPV buys.

The aforementioned Dustin Poirier bouts did big business in their rematch at UFC 257 and their trilogy clash at UFC 264. Those bouts did a reported 1.6 and 1.5 million buys on pay-per-view, respectively.

The former two-division UFC champion did his biggest night of business and the reported most successful PPV in company history against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229. In that bad blood-fuelled UFC lightweight championship affair, McGregor vs Nurmagomedov garnered an estimated 2.4 million PPV buys when all was said and done.