UFC President Dana White opens the call. BJ Penn and Jon Fitch are on the line. Tom Wright, head of Canadian operations, is also on the line.
UFC 129: Dana White “UFC Will Be In One Billion Homes”
- Dana says last set of international fights were sellouts. Goes over Rogers Centre UFC 129 records. Largest North American gate, a Rogers Centre record. Says the event will do $11 million gate.
- Dana says 17,000 tickets sold for UFC 127, added 400 seats over the last Australia event.
- “Not at all,” says Dana in terms of whether he was expecting the UFC 129 ticket sales to move like that. “Absolutely blown away by the response.”
- Dana uses UFC 129’s ticket sales prove UFC will be biggest sport in the world.
- He also says when “new deals” get done, UFC will be in over a billion home.
- There is not any info yet on where tickets are being purchased, but they expect a worldwide audience to attend.
- Says UFC 129 will be attending 75% mark of Canadians.
- When asked about boxing gates being higher than MMA’s, White says boxing doesn’t sell tickets to fans and casinos instead. “I don’t ever want to be in that situation”.
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