Weidman predicts UFC 194 will do 1.4 million PPV buys

Chris Weidman is expecting UFC 194 to do massive business.

Set to defend his middleweight title against Luke Rockhold at the Dec. 12 event, Weidman is predicting UFC 194 - headlined by the most hyped fight of the year in Jose Aldo versus Conor McGregor - will top one million pay-per-view buys.

"I just want the card to stay together," Weidman told The MMA Hour, according to MMAFighting.com's Shaun Al-Shatti. "If it stays together, I'm going to say (it does) 1.4 (million pay-per-view buys)."

UFC 100 - which featured names like Georges St-Pierre, Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Michael Bisping, and Dan Henderson - is the only pay-per-view in promotional history to top 1.4 million buys, having sold 1.6 million in July of 2009.

With a similar galaxy of stars littering the UFC 194 card, hitting the one-million buy mark isn't outside the realm of possibility, especially since Aldo-McGregor is easily the most aggressively promoted fight in UFC history.

"First of all, the Jose Aldo vs. Conor fight has been getting promoted for almost a year now, right?" Weidman said. "They've put more money into that than any other show, and it didn't happen yet. So I hope that's going to carry over and that momentum still going to be swinging.

"Then you've got me and Luke obviously as the co-main event. Anybody who's involved with this sport at all knows that this is a fight to watch. This is going to be an awesome fight."