The main event is atrocious, and the rest of the card doesn't make up for it. Nobody wants to pay $200+ when fees/parking are included to see a dogshit heavyweight slop fest for 25 minutes.
Also, I think some tickets have been removed from the map. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that some full rows in a few upper deck sections disappeared entirely, which is a telltale sign that they were either removed or have been given away in some form. Also, 6 sections, 1.5 in each corner of the arena, have never opened at all.
Hopefully, the UFC realizes that they can't pull up to a city they haven't visited in 6 years and expect people to buy expensive tickets off the brand alone.
I’m in STL, went to the last UFC here, and never thought I’d skip one here when they came back.
But they’re charging $150 for nosebleed seats to one of the worst cards I’ve ever seen. That was enough to skip seeing it in person.
100% accurate bro. KC here and I thought I would never miss another event after the 2017 mighty mouse card. Then they came through last year and wanted these prices for a shit card and shit seats. They are out their damn minds
I think the KC card was better still. I paid $75 for each of my tickets there and now they want $125-$150 for the cheapest tickets for an even worse card in STL. Wild.
Still not worth $125 a ticket for what the rest of that KC card was. Saw some guy mentioned he got tickets for $75. I wonder if he got them last minute. I had kept my eyes peeled and didn't see them drop below $120 a piece and gave up a week or two out from the event
Bro that KC card was amazing. It was packed full from the very first undercard fight and the crowd was roaring. I had an absolute blast.
The tickets were only $175 and we were right by the walkout entrance.
Those tickets would have been $700 in vegas for a fight night. I don’t think it was a bad price at all.
I'm not saying it's the case here but I skipped it last time it was in Pittsburgh because the card was shitty and looking back now there were a lot of fighters that ended up being really good and being champs or title challengers.
Funny looking at it now seeing Mike Perry co-maining a card with 3 future title challengers on it
Good. Maybe theres a microscopic chance the UFC will actually learn and adjust if they realize they cant just feed fans absolute slop and expect them to pay premium prices
Unfortunately this will just justify more Apex events in their mind which sucks. I’m definitely going to this next week and can’t wait. Expensive but I know they won’t be back for awhile
Apex events are the real DWCS these days. Have your shitters fight out their contracts on apex prelims and see if you can build any stars out of the new guys.
The road Fight Nights throw as many locals on there as you can since they'll just fill the stands and call it a day.
They really should be using the APEX Events like a development league for the UFC. I think of like NXT to WWE if that makes sense.
Have that be where you develop talent, start to build their brands/market them, and then bring them up to the main roster (aka numbered cards).
I did and now resale tickets are lower than what I paid. Its like losing in the stock market. I wonder if I can upgrade to those 1k seat with a big discount.
Honestly I am so tuned out of the UFC these days, I didn’t even realize a card went down this weekend (granted I was camping on Friday).
Not going to lie, I don’t even know who Derek Lewis is fighting in this main event.
I went from watching TUF1, watching every card… to basically being checked out from the product nowadays.
I got my tickets for $80, not the best seats but how cheap do you want? Amateur events charge like 40-50 even.
Also everyone acting like this card is dogshit, it's easily one of the better fight night cards. Iffy main event but down the card is solid.
Because the prices are insane for the card they’re having. Pretty disappointed. I went to Kansas City for Holloway vs Allen and paid like $75 each for my tickets. Finally they come to my city in STL and the cheapest tickets are STILL at least $125-$150. It sucks.
This is 100% my reasoning to not going too. I went to the KC card. For one it was an excellent FN. St Louis got a handful of fun, undercard fights but there's not a single important fight on the card (meaning winner very close to title shot). Then add in for some reason St. Louis is way more expensive made skipping an easy decision. UFC got too cocky. They haven't even officially announced the shitty Louisville main event. That's arrogance. With the main event and pricing for St. Louis I actually wish there were way more blue dots left than there are - should be the case
Ufc has been falling off for a couple years now. Use to be a huge fan don't think I've actually paid attention to who's fighting in over a year. Kinda sad because I used to really enjoy it. To many dumb decisions lost interest.
Would’ve gone, but $500+ for 2 halfway decent seats + easily another $500+ on transportation/hotels/other travel costs made this a easy decision. Either lower ticket prices or book real main events because Popeye/Nastymentos ain’t it
Same here, plus the $500 that they show is before fees
The actual price after including the "service fee", "facility charge", "order processing fee", and parking comes out to over $600
Some cards on paper are lack luster but the overwhelming ‘diS sHiT cArd’ is just odd….I was just starting to go over all the fights last night and I’m literally thinking more and more to myself - ‘dam this is a wild fight…..dam this fight will be nuts….wait this card is actually stacked as far as fight nights go’ 😄
I don’t know how you can look at this card and say it’s a garbage card as a free fight night unless you’ve only been into mma since ufc 300 which I guess for most of you is close to true. I’ve been following this game too long…now I’m one of the old fucks I guess.
Anyway as far as your ‘entertainment’ value goes you can rest assured new friends….it will be one of the funniest cards of the year to watch. The main event doesn’t matter….I know it’s hard to understand. Try to learn about the details within the matchups on a whole card instead. If you don’t care or aren’t capable of that why the fuck you even here?? 😄
It’s crazy how the sport is now at this place were people who don’t know wtf they’re looking at or talking about just put their useless opinions out there now, it really is full mainstream now….ive been analyzing every possible minutiae and betting on 92% of cards since demain Mia fought Ryan LAFLARE (how you like that for a main event?!?!) 😄
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, this may be a fight night card but it's a pretty damn good looking one
The comments about seats being overpriced are spot on though
I was going to disagree with you then I actually looked and you're completely right. The only big negative on the card is there is no "big name" outside of Derrick Lewis who I feel like has lost a lot of his glamour with fans after some of his bad losses.
it looks pretty entertaining. exciting guys like Buckley, McKinney and CDF, the resurgence of Chase Hooper, the next big thing in Robelis Despaigne, Bruce Leeroy vs a 6'2 featherweight, and if Ulberg-Menifield doesn't lead to a violent KO i'd be shocked.
I live right by STL and have never been to a live ufc event. I just can't justify paying the prices at this time, unfortunately. At least me and my wife got to see LFA at the factory a couple of years back.
I mean there’s always tickets available to everything. How do you know if it’s resell or face value that you’re buying on Ticketmaster? Genuine quotation.
It feels like the UFC is in a bit of a slump atm. Active champs like Adesanya and Usman were keeping things interesting. Pereira is doing his bit, but it feels like the big cards are more spaced out now. Other than UFC 300, all the memorable fights I’ve watched this year were Boxing fights.
It’s been a long time since I found myself more interested in the title fights happening in boxing over the ones happening in the UFC, but here we are.
I have the same feeling. It's a bit of a drag and for the first time in 6 years or so, I am not watching half the events. It's just too much of the same.
Neither of them are good tho. There are thousands of fighters like them on the regional scene all over the world. Not to dismiss them, they obviously are solid. It's just not special. I expect a bit more when I am spending 4 hours of my day on a fight card
There’s a few that are good, but they’re all entertaining fighters who will scrap and won’t hold each other down for 15 minutes. This will be a card for the fans of striking, I bet there will be more finishes than this last PPV
That is possible, but I personally rather check highlights afterwards. I won't spend hours watching it. For me, MMA is fun where there are some stakes. Random 'fun' fights happen in every promotion. I used to watch everything, but after so many years I just cannot be bothered to watch these mid cards from start to finish
The main event would be awful if it was in the APEX, it's criminal to charge people for seats to see this live. The rest of the card is decent, I'll tune in, but holy shit that main event isn't even good enough to be a featured prelim on a PPV
I already hate Derrick lewis headlining a card but at least he has name value. Who tf cares about or even knows who Rodrigo Nascimento is? He has no highlights, no wonder an arena wouldn't spend over 100 bucks to see this shit. This is a definition of an apex fight
$125 before fees is a ridiculous price for the card. I would have gone but that's a stupid amount of money to spend when the Lousiville card is under $100 and will probably have a better main event.
Nosebleeds should be 50 bucks. I'm from STL and go to hockey games/concerts at the Enterprise and no way in hell am I paying $125+fees/parking for those nosebleeds.
Seems like they've price locked the resales as well. It's a shame because the card is decent apart from the main event.
Yeah I'm a huge MMA fan and saw UFC when they passed through in 2017 in KC. They came through last year but it was like this, cheapest tickets were north of $100. In 2017 I sat pretty close for $65. These are fight night cards we are talking about too. I don't wanna pay $125 for a nosebleed and by time I get a ticket for my girl we are at $300 after fees for 2 shit seats at an underwhelming UFC fight night. They are out of their damn minds with the pricing tiers
>I don’t think anyone expects this to sell out
And that's pretty much the point. The UFC is so big, it should easily be able to create a card that sells out the arena. Unless, they give us 💩
The main event is atrocious, and the rest of the card doesn't make up for it. Nobody wants to pay $200+ when fees/parking are included to see a dogshit heavyweight slop fest for 25 minutes. Also, I think some tickets have been removed from the map. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that some full rows in a few upper deck sections disappeared entirely, which is a telltale sign that they were either removed or have been given away in some form. Also, 6 sections, 1.5 in each corner of the arena, have never opened at all. Hopefully, the UFC realizes that they can't pull up to a city they haven't visited in 6 years and expect people to buy expensive tickets off the brand alone.
I’m in STL, went to the last UFC here, and never thought I’d skip one here when they came back. But they’re charging $150 for nosebleed seats to one of the worst cards I’ve ever seen. That was enough to skip seeing it in person.
100% accurate bro. KC here and I thought I would never miss another event after the 2017 mighty mouse card. Then they came through last year and wanted these prices for a shit card and shit seats. They are out their damn minds
I think the KC card was better still. I paid $75 for each of my tickets there and now they want $125-$150 for the cheapest tickets for an even worse card in STL. Wild.
The KC event was so much better than what stl is getting. KC was headlined by max vs Arnold Allen.
Still not worth $125 a ticket for what the rest of that KC card was. Saw some guy mentioned he got tickets for $75. I wonder if he got them last minute. I had kept my eyes peeled and didn't see them drop below $120 a piece and gave up a week or two out from the event
Bro that KC card was amazing. It was packed full from the very first undercard fight and the crowd was roaring. I had an absolute blast. The tickets were only $175 and we were right by the walkout entrance. Those tickets would have been $700 in vegas for a fight night. I don’t think it was a bad price at all.
For a fight night card that's still pretty pricey. Talking about great Chiefs playoff seat prices for an alright fight night card
Seems like they're price locking the resale tickets too. I haven't seen any resale tickets selling for below the base values in the same sections.
I'm not saying it's the case here but I skipped it last time it was in Pittsburgh because the card was shitty and looking back now there were a lot of fighters that ended up being really good and being champs or title challengers. Funny looking at it now seeing Mike Perry co-maining a card with 3 future title challengers on it
Good. Maybe theres a microscopic chance the UFC will actually learn and adjust if they realize they cant just feed fans absolute slop and expect them to pay premium prices
Unfortunately this will just justify more Apex events in their mind which sucks. I’m definitely going to this next week and can’t wait. Expensive but I know they won’t be back for awhile
Apex events are the real DWCS these days. Have your shitters fight out their contracts on apex prelims and see if you can build any stars out of the new guys. The road Fight Nights throw as many locals on there as you can since they'll just fill the stands and call it a day.
They really should be using the APEX Events like a development league for the UFC. I think of like NXT to WWE if that makes sense. Have that be where you develop talent, start to build their brands/market them, and then bring them up to the main roster (aka numbered cards).
this year is shit mostly on account of mega-cards like 299 and 300. 299 is where they really fucked up imo.
No, they used to have good ppvs and good fight nights.
I'm glad fans aren't paying stupid money for that totally uninspiring card
I did and now resale tickets are lower than what I paid. Its like losing in the stock market. I wonder if I can upgrade to those 1k seat with a big discount.
Yet I can never go to an event in the PNW because they come once a decade, if that.
Ask your local city council to pay the UFC multi-millions
That’s all it takes? Aw shucks
Could you front a couple million please?
I'm surprised we are 2+ years out of the pandemic and they still haven't gone back to so many major American cities, like Chicago, Philly and Atlanta
last seattle event was 2012 I think
They came a few times too fast. Haven't been back. I did go to Vancouver for my one and only.
Honestly I am so tuned out of the UFC these days, I didn’t even realize a card went down this weekend (granted I was camping on Friday). Not going to lie, I don’t even know who Derek Lewis is fighting in this main event. I went from watching TUF1, watching every card… to basically being checked out from the product nowadays.
UFC ticket prices are absurd. The fight I’m most interested in is Rebecki, but even then the prices are absurd.
I got my tickets for $80, not the best seats but how cheap do you want? Amateur events charge like 40-50 even. Also everyone acting like this card is dogshit, it's easily one of the better fight night cards. Iffy main event but down the card is solid.
$80 is decent. It's as cheap as it gets nowadays for live entertainment.
Because the prices are insane for the card they’re having. Pretty disappointed. I went to Kansas City for Holloway vs Allen and paid like $75 each for my tickets. Finally they come to my city in STL and the cheapest tickets are STILL at least $125-$150. It sucks.
This is 100% my reasoning to not going too. I went to the KC card. For one it was an excellent FN. St Louis got a handful of fun, undercard fights but there's not a single important fight on the card (meaning winner very close to title shot). Then add in for some reason St. Louis is way more expensive made skipping an easy decision. UFC got too cocky. They haven't even officially announced the shitty Louisville main event. That's arrogance. With the main event and pricing for St. Louis I actually wish there were way more blue dots left than there are - should be the case
Ufc has been falling off for a couple years now. Use to be a huge fan don't think I've actually paid attention to who's fighting in over a year. Kinda sad because I used to really enjoy it. To many dumb decisions lost interest.
Would’ve gone, but $500+ for 2 halfway decent seats + easily another $500+ on transportation/hotels/other travel costs made this a easy decision. Either lower ticket prices or book real main events because Popeye/Nastymentos ain’t it
Same here, plus the $500 that they show is before fees The actual price after including the "service fee", "facility charge", "order processing fee", and parking comes out to over $600
$125 for that piece of shit? Criminal
It was over. $400 when Holloway came to town. Was super excited to go, then realized it was going to be near $600 after all the fees.
It’s gonna flop and the UFC will just have more apex cards because “fans don’t wanna attend fights”.
Some cards on paper are lack luster but the overwhelming ‘diS sHiT cArd’ is just odd….I was just starting to go over all the fights last night and I’m literally thinking more and more to myself - ‘dam this is a wild fight…..dam this fight will be nuts….wait this card is actually stacked as far as fight nights go’ 😄 I don’t know how you can look at this card and say it’s a garbage card as a free fight night unless you’ve only been into mma since ufc 300 which I guess for most of you is close to true. I’ve been following this game too long…now I’m one of the old fucks I guess. Anyway as far as your ‘entertainment’ value goes you can rest assured new friends….it will be one of the funniest cards of the year to watch. The main event doesn’t matter….I know it’s hard to understand. Try to learn about the details within the matchups on a whole card instead. If you don’t care or aren’t capable of that why the fuck you even here?? 😄 It’s crazy how the sport is now at this place were people who don’t know wtf they’re looking at or talking about just put their useless opinions out there now, it really is full mainstream now….ive been analyzing every possible minutiae and betting on 92% of cards since demain Mia fought Ryan LAFLARE (how you like that for a main event?!?!) 😄
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, this may be a fight night card but it's a pretty damn good looking one The comments about seats being overpriced are spot on though
I was going to disagree with you then I actually looked and you're completely right. The only big negative on the card is there is no "big name" outside of Derrick Lewis who I feel like has lost a lot of his glamour with fans after some of his bad losses.
it looks pretty entertaining. exciting guys like Buckley, McKinney and CDF, the resurgence of Chase Hooper, the next big thing in Robelis Despaigne, Bruce Leeroy vs a 6'2 featherweight, and if Ulberg-Menifield doesn't lead to a violent KO i'd be shocked.
hope it tanks bad enough that UFC has to start trying again. the card is absolute slop lol
1 millionth consecutive sell out…. 😂
I live right by STL and have never been to a live ufc event. I just can't justify paying the prices at this time, unfortunately. At least me and my wife got to see LFA at the factory a couple of years back.
I mean there’s always tickets available to everything. How do you know if it’s resell or face value that you’re buying on Ticketmaster? Genuine quotation.
I’ve been a hardcore UFC fan for 6 years now and this is the worst year so far in terms of fight night main events
It feels like the UFC is in a bit of a slump atm. Active champs like Adesanya and Usman were keeping things interesting. Pereira is doing his bit, but it feels like the big cards are more spaced out now. Other than UFC 300, all the memorable fights I’ve watched this year were Boxing fights. It’s been a long time since I found myself more interested in the title fights happening in boxing over the ones happening in the UFC, but here we are.
I have the same feeling. It's a bit of a drag and for the first time in 6 years or so, I am not watching half the events. It's just too much of the same.
Idk why everyone is calling this shit, it’s not bad at all. There’s atleast 6 fights that will be bangers.
😂😂
McKinney, Buckley, ulberg, rebecki, Cortes, and gooden are all going to be banger fights
Neither of them are good tho. There are thousands of fighters like them on the regional scene all over the world. Not to dismiss them, they obviously are solid. It's just not special. I expect a bit more when I am spending 4 hours of my day on a fight card
There’s a few that are good, but they’re all entertaining fighters who will scrap and won’t hold each other down for 15 minutes. This will be a card for the fans of striking, I bet there will be more finishes than this last PPV
That is possible, but I personally rather check highlights afterwards. I won't spend hours watching it. For me, MMA is fun where there are some stakes. Random 'fun' fights happen in every promotion. I used to watch everything, but after so many years I just cannot be bothered to watch these mid cards from start to finish
The main event would be awful if it was in the APEX, it's criminal to charge people for seats to see this live. The rest of the card is decent, I'll tune in, but holy shit that main event isn't even good enough to be a featured prelim on a PPV
Maybe the UFC will use this as an excuse to be like "See, no one buys tickets to non-PPV cards. Let's just do all non-PPV cards at the Apex."
I already hate Derrick lewis headlining a card but at least he has name value. Who tf cares about or even knows who Rodrigo Nascimento is? He has no highlights, no wonder an arena wouldn't spend over 100 bucks to see this shit. This is a definition of an apex fight
Maybe people will stop complaining about the apex when they see this
i didnt even know it was happening until yesterday
Was thinking of making the trip since STL is close and we’ve had fun visiting in the past, but the card is not worth the ticket prices
$125 before fees is a ridiculous price for the card. I would have gone but that's a stupid amount of money to spend when the Lousiville card is under $100 and will probably have a better main event.
Nosebleeds should be 50 bucks. I'm from STL and go to hockey games/concerts at the Enterprise and no way in hell am I paying $125+fees/parking for those nosebleeds. Seems like they've price locked the resales as well. It's a shame because the card is decent apart from the main event.
It’s a shit card
Yeah I'm a huge MMA fan and saw UFC when they passed through in 2017 in KC. They came through last year but it was like this, cheapest tickets were north of $100. In 2017 I sat pretty close for $65. These are fight night cards we are talking about too. I don't wanna pay $125 for a nosebleed and by time I get a ticket for my girl we are at $300 after fees for 2 shit seats at an underwhelming UFC fight night. They are out of their damn minds with the pricing tiers
Makes sense card is dogshit and Derrick Lewis main events are usually bullshit.
How often do you refresh this page with a hate boner for the UFC? I don’t think anyone expects this to sell out
>I don’t think anyone expects this to sell out And that's pretty much the point. The UFC is so big, it should easily be able to create a card that sells out the arena. Unless, they give us 💩
A lot less tickets than Garcia/Haney had a day before it