{"id":326647,"date":"2024-07-31T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=326647"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:16:44","slug":"ufc-306-tickets-at-vegas-sphere-start-at-2757-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ufc-306-tickets-at-vegas-sphere-start-at-2757-50\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 306 Tickets at Vegas Sphere START at $2,757.50"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tickets went on sale Monday for UFC 306, the first sporting event hosted by the Las Vegas Sphere. Yet the venue hasn’t sold out yet, and it didn\u2019t take long to figure out why.<\/p>\n

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Riyadh Season Noche will be the first sporting event held at the Las Vegas Sphere. (Image: UFC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of Wednesday morning, the cheapest tickets available for the September 14 event, officially called Riyadh Season Noche, were $2,757.50.<\/p>\n

That price was for 400-level seats in the rafters and it wasn’t inflated by resellers. It was for unsold tickets from Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n

U Friggin\u2019 Crazy?<\/h2>\n

The highest price on Wednesday via Ticketmaster was $15,007.50 for a few floor seats to the right of the Octagon and five rows back. These also aren’t resale prices.<\/p>\n

Oh, and that’s before<\/em> fees or taxes are added in.<\/p>\n

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These are tickets at the lowest and highest price points remaining on Ticketmaster as of Wednesday morning. (Image: Ticketmaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking at a press conference earlier this month, UFC CEO Dana White told reporters: \u201cIt will be the biggest gate of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was probably an accurate statement. Assuming an average ticket price of $5,000, the gate receipts will be $100 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UFC CEO Dana White. (Image: Dana White\/Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not that it won\u2019t be an entertaining production. White has said he is spending $17 million on it.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Sphere Entertainment chair and CEO James Dolan provided a preview of what $2,757.50-$15,007.50 will buy you.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to be just watching guys in the octagon and on the screen,\u201d he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> newspaper. \u201cI know Dana is going to use the haptics. When the big guy falls, you\u2019re gonna feel it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to mixonline.com<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> 10K seats in the Sphere are already equipped with haptic technology produced by moving magnets. According to the venue, this tech \u201cuses an audio signal with ultra-low-frequency reproduction to make the chairs vibrate and shake as desired for each performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

As configured for UFC 306, the Sphere can hold up to 20K people — 20K very wealthy<\/em> people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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