UFC Ticket Prices - A Guide

UFC Ticket Prices - The Background

If you're like me, you look forward to the time when MMA takes its rightful spot alongside football, basketball, baseball and hockey as a core sport in the U.S.

Though broad coverage has come a long way on sites like Yahoo Sports (Cagewriter) and USA Today, UFC is still isolated in a niche held back from the mainstream perhaps due to the misperceptions surrounding the aggressive nature of the sport - people don't realize what MMA really stands for and that fact that at its highest level it truly is an 'art'. However the niche that gets it is passionate about the sport and corresponding to that passion, UFC ticket prices tend to average significantly higher than more traditional sports on the secondary ticket market and the face value prices are quite high as well.

With the Ultimate Fighting Championships recent acquisitions of the WEC and Strikeforce, Zuffa (UFC owner) is poised to continue it's success selling tickets and pulling in high gates.

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With that in mind, I wanted to provide a full look into UFC ticket prices to make buying decisions easier and to make it easier to look at price/demand trends over time. This guide will also make it easy to see which fighters and fights are the biggest draw to fans.

UFC Ticket Prices on the Secondary Market

If you are familiar with SeatGeek, you know that we have some of the best data available about ticket prices on the re-sale market. We are experts in this space - we need to be as it fuels our Deal Score algorithm and ticket price forecasts. Average UFC ticket prices are something we have been tracking for over a year now and it is personally one of my favorite sports to measure demand on, so let's take a deeper look at the price data.

UFC 118 ticket prices (Frankie Edgar vs BJ Penn): $242 > Past UFC 118 ticket price coverage

UFC 119 ticket prices (Frank Mir vs Mirko Cro Cop: $124 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage

UFC 120 ticket prices: no data available - UK event

UFC 121 ticket prices (Brock Lesnar vs Velasquez): $252 > Past UFC 121 ticket price coverage

UFC 122 - no ticket data (event was in Germany)

UFC 123 ticket prices (Quintin Rampage Jackson vs Lyot0 Machida): $252 > Past UFC 123 ticket price coverage

UFC 124 ticket prices (GSP vs Koschek): $249 > Past UFC 124 ticket price coverage

UFC 125 ticket prices (Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard): $269 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage

UFC 126 ticket prices (Silva vs Belfort: $577* (New Year's Eve event)

UFC 127 ticket prices (no secondary market data because it was in Australia)

UFC 128 ticket prices (Shogun Rua vs Jon Jones): $270 > Past UFC 128 ticket price coverage

UFC 129 ticket prices (Georges St. Pierre vs Jake Shields): $336 > Past UFC 119 ticket price coverage

This section will continue to be updated

So you want to travel to the fight but hate hassling with travel arrangements? Worry not, the UFC has you covered. The powers that be have done their part in removing the nightmare of travel by working with Orbitz to make booking your flight and rental car as seamless a process as can be. Just punch in what you need and the UFC and Orbitz will have you covered.

Even if you’re not planning on attending UFC 145 Live in Atlanta, the UFC has all the info you need to ensure you don’t miss the action. The organization does all the grunt work of sorting all the information so you can get back to enjoying the fights.

Want to check out the fights over some drinks? The UFC can point you in the right direction with its sports bar locator database. Just enter a location and the page quickly gives you a list of every spot showing the fights that night, along with reviews from Yelp and social features.

Bars are cool, but say you’d rather have a bit more control over the action. Try ordering and watching the fights online with UFC.tv, an amazing live streaming experience where you can pause, rewind and view the fights from multiple angles. Even choose between UFC commentators Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg and each fighter’s cornermen for your live audio.

Of course, you can always combine the best of both options by ordering UFC 145 on Pay Per View. The UFC has the skinny on every television provider to quickly let you find all the pertinent info on how to order the event. No more calling your cable company’s help line praying someone is working on a Saturday night, it’s all right here.

Make sure to check back here for additional information on all future events.

UFC Ticket Price Graph(s)

UFC Face Value Ticket Prices

UFC 129 Face Value Prices

Floor Section C: $800
Floor Section B: $600
Floor Section D: $300, $400
Lower Level: $225, $175, $150
Upper Level: $75, 50

This section will continue to be updated

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Why are UFC Tickets in Such High Demand?

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Have further questions about UFC ticket prices or have requests for data for story? Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at chad at seatgeek.com.
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