It has been officially announced that the UFC event on April 19th in Montreal is sold out. 13,000 tickets sold within the first 24 hours of pre-sale to UFC Fight Club members. The rest of the tickets which went on sale today sold out almost immediately. The venue holds roughly 21,000 seats, which makes this sets the record for highest attendance of an MMA event in North America. Mixed Martial Arts events are currently not allowed in Ontario, which I find silly.
And some other random MMA thoughts:
- Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia has been dropping hints that if the UFC doesn’t pay him more he will go to M1. I say let him go. He has always claimed that he could beat Fedor and I would like to watch Fedor show him otherwise. (It would also be nice for Fedor to have a legitimate opponent.)
- Kimbo seems like he is taking his MMA career seriously, working with Bas Rutten among others. But he needs to avoid novelty fights like his upcoming bout with Tank Abbot if he wants to be seen as a legit athlete.
- I can’t wait to see Evan Tanner return to the Octagon on March 1st. My brain tells me that Okami is just too tough a fight after Evan’s crazy time off, but I can’t help but pull for him.
- Contract Status in question or not, Andrei Arlovski should never be in a preliminary bout.
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I think it’s crazy that Ontario doesn’t allow it. MMA competitions could generate a lot of attention and a ton of money for areas of Ontario. I didn’t even know it wasn’t allowed. Something for you to change when you make it big in MMA public relations.
It doesn’t make sense to me that the fights are able to take place in Montreal but not Ontario… if its all happening in Canada anyway. I’m sure that there is a large audience in Ontario that would attend a fight which could bring in tones of money in for Ontario tourism. What is this decision based on?
A few weeks ago they had a fight at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena in Six Nations Ontario (about an hour from Niagara)… I believe there is another one schedualed around the middle of April. It’s the only place in Ontario they can get away with hosting the professional fights.
From what I heard, tickets were about $50 and the event was sold out.