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Ticket information for Affliction 1/24 Honda Center event in Anaheim
By Zach Arnold | January 13, 2009
So, I went to Ticketmaster to look for available seats for the January 24th event headlined by Fedor vs. Arlovski. The first thing you notice is that Affliction is giving away a ‘free t-shirt’ to anyone who buy a ticket with a face value of $200 or higher. Underneath the t-shirt offer are prices for parking, which range from $15-40 USD.
In short, you can pretty much get whatever kind of ticket you want for the show. More information here.
I know that on a mailing list for MMA writers, the organization yesterday (like for the first show) was offering free t-shirts as a way of saying ‘thank you.’
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I think the talk of the “death” of boxing is overplayed.
The truth is somewhat closer to the fact that boxing has never truly achieved its “life.”
People talk about the 2 million or so PPV buys that top boxing cards get as proof that MMA isn’t competing. In truth, boxing, if it were well run, would AVERAGE 2 million buys, and peak closer to 6 million or more. At some point, probably not too far away, the UFC will surpass boxing, and just keep going.
Jeremy, again: The UFC has dealt with more networks than CBS. There was a dance that went for a solid 8 months with HBO. Why did that break down? Why didn’t they bounce on over to ESPN?
Maybe if they weren’t so committed to doing everything themselves, they could get a network to pick up the tab of production for something like a weekly fight show. But they’re not willing to go along with that. I’ve talked to people who get their wonderful press passes for the UFC and they say that backstage, the company frankly is somewhat worried about finding programming to fill the void for TUF when its finally phased out. Their hope is that UFC Primetime can do it, but I have my doubts that a show without any fights is gonna be able to keep them going over the long run.