WWE News: Early Unforgiven Buyrate In

Insiders from the WWE have released early PPV buyrate figures this year's Unforgiven. The show, which was headlined by Edge vs. John Cena in a TLC Match for the WWE Title and DX vs. The McMahons & Big Show in a Hell in a Cell, drew 285,000 purchases.

That number is up from last year's early 225,000 buys, which later turned out to be 260,000 buys in total.

With the release of the final number, the show could easily approach 200,000 buys domestically. As of now, Unforgiven is the second most purchased single brand WWE PPV of 2006, slightly ahead of ECW One Night Stand II.

It's just behind Smackdown's Great American Bash PPV that reported a total of 330,000 buys.