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MMA News, Results, UFC blog, Ultimate Fighter, Rumors, Video and Opinion: UFC 101 Philadelphia Tickets Sell at a Record Pace
Obsessed With Sports: UFC 101 A Hit In Philly
Watch Kalib Run: Of course the Northeast is having good ticket sales
Bloody Elbow: UFC 101: Making The Case For More East Coast UFC Events
The UFC takes a lot of our moneys
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap —
Looks like ticket sales in Philadelphia are doing well:
UFC 101 will top records set by the likes of legendary boxer Jack Dempsey. In 1926 he fought former U.S. Marine Gene Tunney in Philadelphia. The event drew a staggering live attendance of 120,557, which still stands as a combat-sports record.
“We’ve sold over $3 million worth of tickets,” Ratner said of UFC 101. “No boxing match has ever sold that much. When you go back 75 years ago, Jack Dempsey fought there (Philadelphia), and they had 100,000 people watching the fight. But tickets in those days? Maybe if you interpolated those dollars into what it’s worth today, it wouldn’t be ...
UFC 101 Philadelphia Tickets Sell at a Record Pace
MMA News, Results, UFC blog, Ultimate Fighter, Rumors, Video and Opinion —
... “We’ve sold over $3 million worth of tickets …. No boxing match has ever sold that much. When you go back 75 years ago, Jack Dempsey fought there (Philadelphia), and they had 100,000 people watching the fight. But tickets in those days? Maybe if you interpolated those dollars into what it’s worth today, it wouldn’t be there, but actual dollars – like $3.2 million – [UFC 101] is the largest gate in Pennsylvania history.” [MMAJunkie] ...
UFC 101 A Hit In Philly
Obsessed With Sports —
... this day a combat-sports record. That is insane. over 120,000 people to see a fight.
Philly is a great city in the Northeast to hold what is hopefully a coming out party for the UFC in this area. Obviously it is a tremendous sports town. In addition, with the wheels in motion to sanction fights in Boston and New York, where better to start than the nations first capital?
All Rocky references were mercifully and purposefully avoided in this post.
Philadelphia’s UFC 101 ticket sales booming, Pennsylvania gate record already ...
Of course the Northeast is having good ticket sales
Watch Kalib Run —
Things are looking great for UFC 101 as the event has already sold 14,000 tickets for an approximate gate of over $3 million.
However, we shouldn't be surprised that an event in the Northeast can draw a big crowd.
Since The Ultimate Fighter 1 Finale there have been three, count em, three, UFC events in the Northeast of the United States. Of course it should be stated that MMA is still banned in New York and Massachusetts and it was only recently approved in Pennsylvania, but still.
Look, since 2008 the UFC has held more events ...
UFC 101: Making The Case For More East Coast UFC Events
Bloody Elbow —
... Now MMAJunkie is reporting the following in regards to UFC 101 which will take place in Pennsylvania. According to UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner: ...
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MMAFrenzy.com —
... Ticket sales for UFC 101 on August 8 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia have surpassed 14,000 for a Pennsylviania record-breaking $3+ million live gate. [MMAjunkie] ...
