The event sold out of the 16,024 tickets made available. However, hundreds of tickets remained available within hours of showtime on the resale market, with most going for steep discounts from their face values of $2,500 to $23,437.50.<\/p>\n
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Tickets were initially priced so White could cover what he thought would be $8 million in costs to produce a video that could only be played on the Sphere\u2019s giant hi-def screens. Those costs eventually exploded to $20 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Speaking on Saturday, White seemed more focused on UFC 306\u2019s successes than its pitfalls.<\/p>\n
“This thing, I told you guys leading up to this, the way that this whole thing played out, tonight was meant to happen,\u201d he enthused at the post-event press conference. \u201cIt happened. We did it. We killed it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UFC 306, the first sports event held at the Las Vegas Sphere, generated the highest gross revenue that either the venue or the UFC has ever seen. According to UFC, the 10-fight spectacle earned $22 million in gate receipts, handily trouncing the $17.7 million gross earned by UFC 205 in 2016. Still, UFC spent $20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":330752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,81886,82964],"tags":[92329,88940,92330,91874],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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