It was announced during the event that Chuck Liddell would fight PRIDE star Wanderlei Silva in November, if Liddell won his upcoming match against Renato Sobral at UFC 62. Negotiations between the UFC and PRIDE failed however and the Liddell-Silva fight never occurred in November 2006.
The number of pay-per-view buys for UFC 61 in the United States was approximately 775,000, which generated gross PPV revenue of approximately $30,960,000.