UFC 101 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia has already sold nearly 14,000 tickets sold and more than $3 million in sales.
OWS will be there as the UFC presents the biggest fight card to hit the Northeast to date. The night is headlined by UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn and Kenny Florian. Not to be outdone the co-main event is a showdown between Middleweight king Anderson Silva and Forrest Griffin to be decided at 205 pounds.Junkie has a create snippet UFC 101 is set to top records set by Jack Dempsey. In 1926 Dempsey fought former Gene Tunney in Philadelphia. The event drew a live attendance of 120,557, which is to this day a combat-sports record. That is insane. over 120,000 people to see a fight.
Philly is a great city in the Northeast to hold what is hopefully a coming out party for the UFC in this area. Obviously it is a tremendous sports town. In addition, with the wheels in motion to sanction fights in Boston and New York, where better to start than the nations first capital?
All Rocky references were mercifully and purposefully avoided in this post.
Philadelphia’s UFC 101 ticket sales booming, Pennsylvania gate record already broken [MMA Junkie]
