As you may have heard already, UFC 100 sold out in record time with all the tickets being snatched up by “UFC Fight Club” members and newsletters subscribers before the general public got so much as a whiff of them. That’s great news for the UFC since it justifies all the effort they’ve put into making this a historic fight card. But with the tickets selling out so fast you can’t help but wonder how much of a role scalpers played.
For instance, UFC.com says ticket prices ranged from $100 to $1,000. But if you check out StubHub.com (the “official fan-to-fan ticket marketplace” of the UFC) right now you’ll see over 1,000 UFC 100 tickets already for sale. The cheapest one will run you about $428, and needless to say it is not exactly Octagonside. For that privilege you’ll pay anywhere from $2,500 to $24,000 (ed. note: you fucking kidding me?). If you are an MMA fan with that kind of money to spend on tickets to a UFC event, then congratulations. You are Shaquille O’Neal.
By comparison, you can buy UFC 98 tickets on Stub Hub for $150 to $5,500 bucks, so the sell-out and jacked up ticket prices still speak to the incredible fan interest in UFC 100. The fact that anyone has the balls to try and sell a ticket to a sporting event for roughly the same price as a new Toyota Camry means that they have reason to believe this is a special event, which it is. It also might be a sign that the average fan is getting priced out of attending UFC events.
Just out of curiosity, what’s the most you could realistically see yourself paying for a good, but not necessarily front row ticket to UFC 100? I have to say that no matter how badly I wanted to go, anything over $400-$500 a pop is the point where I would start to hate myself way too much to actually enjoy it. But somebody must be buying these things from the scalpers, right?
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commentsAnyway, I probably wouldn't pay more than $300 for tickets. $400+ starting price is utter bullshit.
Only had so because I won a poker tourny the day before figured fck it, spoil yourself.
Personally looking back I should have taken that money and got the ppv and 2 asain chicks to suck each nut for 3 hours during the broadcast.
Jay Smith, it's not that hard to get 300 bucks scraped together. Get a fucking job and work for at least 40 hours for two weeks and you have yourself a ticket. Minimum wage is ridiculously high nowadays.
At most, I'd spend $400 on a ticket.
And pierre larouche, read the red letters above "Your name:". It says "Post new comment", not "Post five-paragraph essay or whatever tangent your brain goes on". Fuck.
I payed 50 for both affliction events in anaheim
I wont pay shit for ufc tickets.
i think i would spend 50 for an ultimate fight night
I was at UFC 92 (My brother works for Xyience, and I had free tickets), and like someone else mentioned, I ended up watching all the action on the big screens.
I also think some of these people on here are just trying to sound like big shots. $300, $500, $1000.............my ass!!!
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awww shit.
to quote the World Bank (right wing nutjobs, please stfu)
1.1 billion people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day
But no, support a fighter! because they..... they fight! And that.... entertains us! and distracts us from the real issues and having to care about the other 3/4 of the planet! jesus christ dude, you almost had me until that abso-fucking-lutely unbelievable line.
that being said, I have pretty decent tickets for ufc 100, and paid somewhere between 4 and 6 bills for them.
and I do donate to charities, and when I say charities, I do not mean struggling mma fighters. (i lol'd when i typed that.)
In this economy $500 would let me eat for 3 months and $1000 would pay my rent for a month. Sadly, I value these two things more than MMA.
And whoever is charging $24,000 for a cage side ticket is fucking bat shit crazy. Only a movie star/professional athlete/rich business man could afford that and they get comp seats from Mr. Fester & company.
The next time you have a thought...let it go
/pimpslap
You dont bother anymore and just copy/paste the promotional stuff you get?
I'd be happy for a good card.
Cock and Mir 2 is barely interesting but Mir did whip Minotauro.
GSP is fighting Diego or Thiago or some guy like that no one cares about. That's nice and all but after the Penn-GSP overhype has sucked any life from the GSP bandwagon , where is the historic part of this card?
Old man Henderson and Reality TV boy?
Roid legend Coleman vs another Reality TV pretty boy?
hmm, maybe im seeing a pattern here, old time name recognition for the old farts and reality tv brand recognition for the Spike/Tapout lifestyle crowd... its historic!!
And lets not forget the historic Who-Gives-a-Fuck Belcher and the Korean dude that had to deal with racism in Japan? Buy a convenience store Yoshida and experience racial equality....
Yes, considering through all the Leben as main event garbage theyve been feeding the past few months, this could be a good card, very doubtfully great. historic? maybe you meant the number.
But hey, Krzysztof Soszynski is on the third fight against Stann in Montreal because he is 'canadian content'.
Im sorry but this shouldnt be in the top 5 fights of any top pro card. As for trying to sell the rubes cancon, Sosz was born in Poland and lived in Canada before moving to train in the US, so I guess they can re-use him in eastern europe as well.
Too many of the UFC cards have been weak, so let's be happy that there is one which doesnt suck.
No need to oversell it.
This shit is elementary
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