The UFC will once again partner with Fathom Events to bring a UFC PPV to movie theaters. UFC 180 will be shown in movie theaters on Saturday, November 15th.
As announced via the UFC Facebook page, the UFC is hyping up this event by giving people additional ways to find it.
Payout Perspective:
In Seattle, these UFC movie events are usually shown in 1 or 2 theaters in the suburbs. However, a brief glance at possible places to watch UFC 180 in movie theaters shows 4 areas around the city with tickets ranging from $15-$18 depending on where you go ($13 for kids). With the event selling out, one would think the UFC wants as many people to watch the event and see the atmosphere in Mexico City. While this may detract from PPV buys, it was likely that the buy rate was going to be marginal considering the focus on the Latin American/Mexican audience.
Very nice article Jason, and very interesting indeed. I’ve often wondered why the UFC didn’t play in theater’s, and heard that it occasionally did “in Canada” or “in the Seattle area.” A PPV price tag, for me in Maryland anyway, is literally pushing $70 — when you add in taxes and the “Maryland sports franchise fee”. So I honestly can’t afford to buy but 1 or 2 a year. But having an opportunity to go to a theater and see a great night of fights for $18, surrounded by others who like MMA as much as I do, I could really go for that. (That goes double if the Leslie Smith – Jessica Eye fight is on the PPV main care.) I win, the UFC wins, the theater wins. Hopefully UFC180 will be showing somewhere near me.
UFC is taking a page out of the boxing playbook Boxing invented the theater simulcast. Nothing original here. Shows that the ufc is out of any original ideas, they should have done this years ago. 70 bucks bahahha give us a break that’s just robbery!
I live in Prince George ,British Columbia ,Canada the Town is 85-90 000 pop.and have a 6 theater Movie Theater! The Town is MMA crazy I mean Bill “the Butcher” Mahood ex UFC Fighter,”Ragin” Kajan Johnson current UFC is from here,and of Course the most Famous of them all Rory “Ares” MacDonald lived here from age 15-18 ,and had his first 3 Professional fights here.P
I live in Prince George ,British Columbia ,Canada the Town is 85-90 000 pop.and have a 6 theater Movie Theater! The Town is MMA crazy I mean Bill “the Butcher” Mahood ex UFC Fighter,”Ragin” Kajan Johnson current UFC is from here,and of Course the most Famous of them all Rory “Ares” MacDonald lived here from age 15-18 ,and had his first 3 Professional fights here.Prince George,BC was the only City in North America,that allowed a 16 yrs old Cage fight,Professional! I saw his first 2 fights and know his Dad and Uncles from when I worked with his Uncle on the Rigs We used to Party together when Rory was just like 8-9 yrs old kid living with his Mom! Anyway Who knows,where can I find out,if the Local Theater have the Fight or not at November 15..I called the Office but they dunno yet wont let them know until 7 days before.But there’s a list somewhere of the 400 plus theaters in US/Canada.If anyone knows where can I see the list,PLEASE ANSWER ME Pretty Please! I watched UFC 167 in the Theater and it’s way better than at home,Even though it’s free online,and I hook my Laptop onto my Big screen TV THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE,And Please let me know!!! Cheers!!!