UFC 205 ticket sales would point to the fact that the staging of the sport in Madison Square Garden has been a fight worth seeing to the end.
Much is often said as to how valuable and important Conor McGregor is to the UFC, and the figures for ticket sales for tonight's bout with Eddie Alvarez starkly illustrates that fact.
UFC 205 Ticket Sales
Bloomberg have released the eye-watering gate receipts the UFC 205 ticket sales have pulled in for tonight's event: it's made more than $17 million from ticket sales alone. That's before the UFC factor in their main source of income on fight night: Pay Per View sales.
It smashes records held by both the UFC and Madison Square Garden. The UFC's record gate receipts up to now were $12 million, while the highest MSQ have pulled in were for the Evander Holyfield/Lennox Lewis bout in 1999, $11 million at the time. Even when that figure is adjusted for inflation, it comes to $15.9 million.
One of the factors behind such extraordinary figures is the price of the tickets: the cheapest seats begin at $105, with the most valuable tickets selling for the considerable price of $1,510.
The breaking into New York is a major frontier for the UFC, and with McGregor at the vanguard, the money will keep on flowing, if the UFC 205 ticket sales are anything to go by.
