The UFC is sustaining that ticket gross sales for Saturday’s UFC Perth occasion are simply nice.
A report from native information outlet 7News Australia stated that ticket gross sales are low, that the RAC Area is “solely about half full, and tickets at the moment are being discounted.” Through the UFC Perth press convention, Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations Dave Shaw was requested concerning the studies.
“There’s not a difficulty for this occasion,” Shaw stated.
In keeping with TicketTek, the corporate getting used to promote and distribute tickets for the occasion, whereas the occasion is definitely not a promote out at the moment, there are extra tickets bought than the report signifies. As of now, out there tickets vary for between $75 and $100, and the occasion is headlined by a pivotal mild heavyweight matchup between surging contender Carlos Ulberg and previous two-time title challenger Dominick Reyes.
Shaw maintains that the UFC continues to thrive in Australia, and so they have been constructing issues up since they made their first look 15 years in the past.
“Pay attention, from the very starting, we’ve taken the long term, taking part in the lengthy sport with Australia,” Shaw stated. “We talked about being first right here in 2010 with UFC 110. We opened up the workplace, taking part in the lengthy sport in 2014… after which in 2015 once we held the most important occasion in UFC historical past with Ronda [Rousey] and Holly [Holm] in Melbourne. We overturned the ban of the octagon in [Western Australia] in 2017, we had a Combat of the Yr in 2023 along with your boy [Alexander Volkanovski] and Islam [Makhachev].
“We are going to proceed to take the long term in Australia. We all know you guys are a sports-mad nation, and for us, you usually hear Dana speaking about how MMA goes to be the most important sport on the earth, and our viewpoint on Australia as one of many prime markets we go to yearly is that that is going to be a large sport on this nation. And that is additionally a reasonably particular card. I imply, take into consideration us having extra regional athletes, extra Australian, extra Kiwi athletes on this card than we’ve ever had prior to now.”
