UFC 101 Breaks Long Time Pennsylvania Gate Records
Posted by Larry Csonka on 07.02.2009
UFC 101 already doing big business…
According to MMAJunkie.com, UFC 101, which will take place on August 8th the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has already sold 14,000 tickets for a gate of over $3 million. UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Marc Ratner commented on the success of the ticket sales, stating…
"We put tickets on sale, I believe sometime at the end of April or early May, and we've sold almost 14,000 tickets. It's the biggest event in Pennsylvania history, as far as a live gate, already. 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."
PRELIMINARY CARD
* Shane Nelson vs. Aaron Riley
* John Howard vs. Tamdan McCrory
* Thales Leites vs. Alessio Sakara
* Dan Cramer vs. Matthew Riddle
* Rob Emerson vs. George Sotiropoulos
* Jesse Lennox vs. Danillo Villefort
