UFC 129 Sold Out In Ticket Buying Frenzy
Posted on February 10, 2011, 08:15 PM by codemasterThe UFC achieved another historic milestone today when over 40,000 tickets were sold to rabid Toronto fans. Tom Wright, the director of UFC Canada had to make more seats available only 7 minutes after ticket sales commenced.
Already the UFC are investigating making more seats available due to the huge fan demand, and raising the number of seats to 45,000 to 50,000. This massive amount of sales easily has destroyed the previous MMA North American ticket sales record of 23,152 set recently at UFC 124 in Montreal, Canada.
These sales were all to UFC Fight Club members who may buy their tickets before the general publlic. It appears the general public will have few available seats to purchase, since UFC newletter subscribers are buying tomorrow. On Saturday, when the general public will be able to buy tickets, there probably will be none left.
"Sales were terrific, is the easiest way to say it," Wright told MMA Fighting. "As you might know, it took a long time to properly setup and scale Rogers Centre for UFC 129. This is our first time out of hockey and basketball venues and into a baseball and football stadium. We took great pains to make sure it's a great experience for fans."
"To say the response was overwhelming would be an understatement," said Wright. "In less than an hour we were pretty well down to some singles (tickets)."
"I LOVE CANADA!" UFC president Dana White tweeted The Canadian Press.
As well he should, since the gate alone should easily be well north of $10,000,000.
Wright said, ""I'd love to see a first digit (of) five but time will tell.". Due to the configuration of the stadium, with 6 giant screens added to the already massive high definition Jumbotron, there are only so many more tickets.
This kind of fan reaction and blockbuster event should be good for all of MMA.
Welcome to the next level.
Comments
ITS BULLSHIT! IVE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY AND BECAUSE I COULDN'T AFFORD THE FIGHT CLUB PRICE GOUGE I DONT GET TICKETS. UFC 129 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST THING IVE EVER DONE AND FIGHT CLUB TOOK IT AWAY. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY THIS IS BULLSHIT!! I LOVE UFC AND MMA AS A WHOLE AND I FEEL CHEATED BY THE UFC HERE
most of the ppl who bought tickets are scalpers, ur gonna pay an arm and a leg now for good seats, **** ufc 129 imo, the cheapest tickest are 50-75 bucks and ur gonna need binocular's to watch whats going on, paying for ppv is even better than that..
Well then just buy the pay-per view and quit complaining. Of course you're gonna pay an arm and a leg for good seats when it sells 40 000 tickets in a day. Don't like it, go to the Soviet Union.
how bout u suck a **** ,dana
in Soviet Russia ticket buy you
Lol
they're basically forcing u to buy a fight club membership, f-ing crooks
lots of places are starting to do that now :(
but really on travel/accomodation/decent view ticket/meal afterwards etc.. you were probably gonna spend several hundred dollars, so is 35$ the end of the world? you even get a free t-shirt when you join haha
you have to join the $74 fight club to get early tickets. And ticket master has an $88 early ticket fee
That's great news! I think it's a good assumption that most will be GSP fans. Sad for them to watch GSP lose his title to Jake.
...but excitement is the name of the game in MMA. That's why we love it so much!
WAR Jake!!!!