Is MMA Getting Too Expensive? 

short answer : i never paid

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It's literally free

​@@kidneystonermusictickets literally aren't free

The reality is Mcgregor has transcended the sport. So there are sports fans that haven't watched a single UFC fight since July 2021 when he broke his leg that will still buy this fight. Because it's about seeing Conor. Has mma become too expensive? No. Because the individuals, restaurants, bars, etc. buying this fight only do so when Conor fights. He's the mike tyson of mma. And those years and years he doesn't fight, 99.99% of sports fans don't watch mma. And this is coming from somebody who loves the sport and watches every event. Sorry for the novel lol

People talk shit about Brazilian crowds but they ignore that diehard Brazilian fans of Aldo from the glory days of the UFC going to Brazil, just can’t justify or even afford these prices. They’ve got rich snobs who don’t actually care in the crowd. And that’s happening all over now with the ufc crowds

@@casillasscorer That is what the UFC wants now. They want the influencers and wealthy there and could care less about the actual fan. The average fan can't afford a live event anymore.

Every event is the Superbowl I guess😂. Naw. These are Taylor Swift prices. The only thing more brutal than the hits in the octagon is the hit on our wallets.

Yeah because your broke ass doesn't spend any money when you go to the events that's how it works. You're also probably one of the guys complaining about fighter pay. Education is a wonderful thing

​@LowLight420 If the arenas were mostly empty all the time and they had to hire seat fillers, any company would go bankrupt... hi, my name is common sense 😂

When he blows more than a fighters show and win money in one bloody poker hand…. ($12k/$12k as documented on the low end)

Yeah that's crazy

UFC in Toronto was $912 for the absolute worst seats.

I paid $250 a ticket to go to UFC 291 last July

400 for nosebleeds in anaheim

400 for nosebleeds in London also

Except Connor gets his back as agreed to. Friends wagers fulfilled... Racket!

Mcgregors been washed for close to a decade

I can go to 3 New York Knicks playoff games in Madison square Garden for what it cost to go to one UFC show. Football isn’t even close in cost.

McG smashes Chandler like Alvarez

@@enrqced1thats saying something bc msg is overpriced asf (ima big ranger fan)

Probably just about pay for your parking! 😂

I went to jones/Gustafson 2 and paid $200 for seats right above the floor….

What’s average

I get paid average and i can afford it but its still ridiculously expensive to be fan

@@thenedsmmachannel8970 yeah definitely not cheap especially when airfare and hotel is included

@CapUnlimited yeah all but like 2 events were locally by me where I was living but I haven't been to an event post pandemic. The prices are night and day difference

@@thenedsmmachannel8970 yeah everything crazy post pandemic

same, but i do wonder, im declining ppv sales means they need to make more on the gate

Yeah, it's a bit of a paradox now that you mention it ​@@eellad

​@@eelladI doubt it, I think ESPN gives them a guaranteed minimum payout no matter what the buys are, so it's not their biggest priority

Dana finna find everyone saying this in the comments lmao

There is a special spot in hell for that man.

hes gotta pay to get his wifes face fixed any time she burns the food

Fighter pay actually has gone down some.

There is a special place in hell for people as greedy as dana

I hate being shadow banned

they ppv model needs to go

Just pirate it? Been doing it every week since 2016 pay for ESPN so I get fight nights for free now but didn’t used to or go to a bar or restaurant with it playing? Or unless you have 0 friends that watch have 8 people pitch 10$ to all watch together?

They charge that much for Americans to watch the sport. In 90% of countries you just buy a subscription to a streaming service to view PPV’s

Yall pay for PPV? 😂😂😂 it’s 2024 and the internet is a real thing

We arent all poor little guy​@@babysharpMMA

Very very big distinction. And I agree. I went to two bellator shows in Chicago, a year apart and I paid the same 110$ for basically the same seats but a diff angle. You’re very correct the UFC is price gouging for the product

Facts. Just bought tickets for One FC’s event in Denver for $150 each for good seats. Shit when the tickets first went on sale, floor seats were only about $350.

This!

It's a memory😂

Definitely not an investment, but not a loss if the experience was worth it (to you)

100% 🤣

Can't imagine going through the reschedule process man.

@GazerPlur420 oh I grabbed them when they rescheduled to LA. I had a buddy who had already paid for the hotel and plane tickets, he was pretty pissed. I got him a shirt.

Doesn't seem that expensive compared to other sports. NBA teams play 41 home games. Similar prices and basketball games don't even last as long as just the main card. A basketball game very rarely lasts longer than 3 hours....... Almost every UFC main card has lasted at least 3 hours and that is not including roughly 6 hours or prelims and early prelims. Lower Bowl tickets for the upcoming Game 7 Denver/Minnesota are selling for $700+.......... Each......... For a game that won't even last 3 hours. Over twice the price per ticket that you are complaining about for 33% of the time in the seat you are paying for and that is for a team that has a long term lease on the arena compared to the UFC renting the arena for the night.

@tmzz3609 the tickets I bought were nosebleeds. I could touch the wall behind the highest seat in the arena.

Its good to see some people with common sense. Most people still think its 2013 and that mcgregor is some type of star. He is literally just a wwe character the UFC used for popularity and to bring in pro wrestling fans. Dana is trying to squeeze every penny out of his little golden boy before the sun sets, no matter how bad the quality of the product is.

Ive actually been having similar thoughts for a while. I don't think his fans realize just how long its been since hes had a win particularly at lightweight. And people have only been getting better while he seems to have already peaked . I mean in the ufc he literally only has 1 win at lightweight a long time ago

@@procow2274in fairness he and chandler are fighting at 170 not 155. Not saying that to like, imply it’s an entirely different story or anything lol. But it is a slight difference

You’re kidding, right? That’s been Conor’s shtick since pretty much Day 1; the “Damn I hate this guy! I’ll gladly pay to watch him get whooped.” The same shtick Ali copied from Gorgeous George. “Morbidly curious to watch this shit show” is just the next logical step. Between that & the chance it might be the last time to see this shit show explains why the ticket price is so high.

Nobody is ignoring the fact that he's been popping drugs! It's literally in every video and comments section. Click on any post of his and you'll see the guy-covered-in-white-powder-screaming meme

That's the issue, the individual fan who spend thousands is replaced by the corporate sponsors' millions.. 'real fans' are reduced to an online presence, and the UFC is ok with it..

$500? I've never seen floor seats for under $1,000

500 is super cheap I would expect to be in the parking lot for that price

That’s not expensive tho, I’d expect that for a decent seat

I was on the floor for 292 it was 700

@@ultimatechickenhorsesweat2614do you understand what you’re saying

accurate

@@zs1337btw ARGGG

thats why you watch local and small, heard cage warriors is like 100 quid for a ticket and drinks and i support a league 2 team and my season ticket is only 100 quid, same entertainment as the expensive ones

This is the way.

Seriously. I can't go to live events of any kind. There's just no way to justify the expense. It's extra annoying to see front row seats empty at UFC (and lots of other events - it's really bad at tennis grand slam events) because corporate sponsors, friends of people in high places, prostitutes, etc., get free passes and choose to skip the event. Meanwhile, real fans dream of sitting there but will never have a chance.

Don’t vote for Biden then

@@Bob_1212. Amen.

@@Bob_1212. would be nice if the alternative wasn't an anti democracy lunatic

^At least the other one didn’t fuck up the economy…….and for the record, don’t like him either.

I don't think UFC people will be giving away Conor tickets

I can see them doing that for any other UFC PPV in Vegas but for Conor? No way in hell theyre giving those out for free

Exactly. Dana can personally pay out for the lost revenue. That fucker can afford it (and to properly compensate his fighters, which he doesn't)

Its always better to watch at home. Ive been to numerous ufc events and its fun for the experience but watching from the tv is far better

Agreed@@thenedsmmachannel8970

The prices pre covid and post is ridiculously more expensive. I had floor seats for UFC 199 and i was row 5 and it was 500 bucks. Today? Those tickets are probably 2.5-3k

They have a second channel that they started, but they stopped using it a few months after they started.