Ultimate Fighting Championship Tickets With its very first event held back on November 12, 1993, the UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, has grown to become a global phenomenon in the world of. Sell Tickets We're the world’s largest secondary marketplace for tickets to live events. Prices are set by sellers and may be below or above face value. Be the first to know when UFC tickets go on sale! Tickets Coming Soon UFC 260. While the UFC hasn’t surpassed boxing as the biggest sporting event in Vegas, it’s knocking on the door, and many matches completely sell out. As the popularity of the sport continues to grow, here is a.
If you’re like me, you look forward to the time when MMA takes its rightful spot alongside football, basketball, baseball and hockey as a core sport in the U.S.
Though broad coverage has come a long way on sites like Yahoo Sports (Cagewriter) and USA Today, UFC is still isolated in a niche held back from the mainstream perhaps due to the misperceptions surrounding the aggressive nature of the sport – people don’t realize what MMA really stands for and that fact that at its highest level it truly is an ‘art’. However the niche that gets it is passionate about the sport and corresponding to that passion, UFC ticket prices tend to average significantly higher than more traditional sports on the secondary ticket market and the face value prices are quite high as well.
With the Ultimate Fighting Championships recent acquisitions of the WEC and Strikeforce, Zuffa (UFC owner) is poised to continue it’s success selling tickets and pulling in high gates.
With that in mind, I wanted to provide a full look into UFC ticket prices to make buying decisions easier and to make it easier to look at price/demand trends over time. This guide will also make it easy to see which fighters and fights are the biggest draw to fans.
If you are familiar with SeatGeek, you know that we have some of the best data available about ticket prices on the re-sale market. We are experts in this space – we need to be as it fuels our Deal Score algorithm and ticket price forecasts. Average UFC ticket prices are something we have been tracking for over a year now and it is personally one of my favorite sports to measure demand on, so let’s take a deeper look at the price data.
UFC 118 ticket prices (Frankie Edgar vs BJ Penn): $242 > Past UFC 118 ticket price coverage
UFC 119 ticket prices (Frank Mir vs Mirko Cro Cop: $124 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage
UFC 120 ticket prices: no data available – UK event
UFC 121 ticket prices (Brock Lesnar vs Velasquez): $252 > Past UFC 121 ticket price coverage
UFC 122 – no ticket data (event was in Germany)
UFC 123 ticket prices (Quintin Rampage Jackson vs Lyot0 Machida): $252 > Past UFC 123 ticket price coverage
UFC 124 ticket prices (GSP vs Koschek): $249 > Past UFC 124 ticket price coverage
UFC 125 ticket prices (Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard): $269 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage
UFC 126 ticket prices (Silva vs Belfort: $577* (New Year’s Eve event)
UFC 127 ticket prices (no secondary market data because it was in Australia)
UFC 128 ticket prices (Shogun Rua vs Jon Jones): $270 > Past UFC 128 ticket price coverage
UFC 129 ticket prices (Georges St. Pierre vs Jake Shields): $336 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage
UFC 154 ticket prices (Georges St. Pierre vs Carlos Condit): $190 > Ticket price coverage for the upcoming UFC 154
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Saturday 3:30 AM | UFC 151UFC 151Mandalay Bay Events Center – Las Vegas, NVtickets from $406 |
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Floor Section C: $800
Floor Section B: $600
Floor Section D: $300, $400
Lower Level: $225, $175, $150
Upper Level: $75, 50
This section will continue to be updated
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Fans will be in attendance when the UFC returns to “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi for a three-event stint starting next week.
And early Friday in the U.S., tickets already were gone not long after they went on sale for UFC 257 on Jan. 23. at Etihad Arena on Yas Island. That event features a rematch between former lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor and former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier.
Tickets that started at $795 Arab Emirates Dirham (about $216 USD) and went all the way up to $4,995 AED ($1,360 USD) all show as sold out at Etihad Arena’s official website.
The website also lists an abundance of health and safety rules that must be adhered to by fans, and though a total number of tickets available was not announced, the site says “seating capacity has been reduced to comply with social distancing rules.”
According to TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter, who reports addition information provided by the UFC, “the capacity for the UFC event per fight will be around 2,000 spectators.”
Tickets remain available for UFC on ABC 1 next Saturday, as well as UFC on ESPN 20, which takes place Wednesday, Jan. 20. UFC on ABC 1 will be headlined by a featherweight fight between former champion Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar. Four days later, Michael Chiesa meets Neil Magny in the UFC on ESPN 20 main event. Tickets start at $595 AED ($162 USD)
The three events will be the first time since March 2020 that the UFC will have fans in attendance. After getting past the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and cancellations of events, White and the UFC eventually put on a series of events without fans in Jacksonville, Fla., then have made the UFC Apex in Las Vegas its semi-permanent home, also without fans. In addition, the UFC twice in 2020 made multi-event visits to “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi for fight cards without fans.
But the big-splash finale for the three-event run in Abu Dhabi over the course of just seven days is UFC 257, which will feature a rematch between former lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor and former interim lightweight champ Dustin Poirier.
McGregor is the UFC’s biggest draw by far. He has headlined all but three of his 12 career UFC fights, including his past seven on pay-per-view. In January 2020, he fought Donald Cerrone and generated a reported 1 million pay-per-view buys, which was his lowest number since UFC 189 did a reported 825,000 buys for his interim featherweight title win over Chad Mendes. His UFC 229 submission loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov generated a reported UFC record 2.4 million buys.
Where the UFC will have to suffer likely significant losses are in the live gate totals that McGregor fights typically have generated, mostly in Las Vegas. His UFC 246 fight against Cerrone ha a live gate in excess of $11 million at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. UFC 229 at T-Mobile Arena and UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden in New York each generated more than $17 million in live gate totals – an MMA record, as well as the Garden’s gate record.