Early Unforgiven PPV buyrate; the second highest single brand number
On Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 4:33 PM EST World Wrestling Entertainment released the early PPV buyrate for the Unforgiven PPV on September 17 over on their corporate website. The show, which was headlined by Edge vs. John Cena in a TLC Match for the WWE Title and DX vs. The McMahon's & Big Show in a Hell in a Cell, drew 285,000 buys so far.
That figure is up from last year's early 225,000 buys, which later turned out to be 260,000 buys in total. That show was headlined by John Cena vs. Kurt Angle for the WWE Title and Edge vs. Matt Hardy in a Steel Cage Match. We should also keep in mind WWE's higher count of international PPV buys this year compared to last year.
With the release of the final number, the show could easily approach 200,000 buys domestically without counting international buys. As of now, Unforgiven is the second most purchased single brand WWE PPV this year and is slightly ahead of ECW One Night Stand II. It is just behind Smackdown's Great American Bash PPV that reported a total of 330,000 buys.
Source: Wade Keller @ PWTorch.com