UFC 108 Tickets For January 2 in Las Vegas on Sale Next Week
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Nov 4, 2009 at 11:21 am ET22 Comments
Tickets for UFC 108, the UFC’s traditional year-end blockbuster event which takes place on January 2 in Las Vegas, go on sale next week:
- UFC Fight Club Ticket Presale: Starts Thursday, November 12 – 10 am pt
- UFC Newsletter Subscribers Ticket Presale: Starts Friday, November 13 – 10 am pt
- Public On-Sale Ticket Date: Starts Saturday, November 14 – 12 pm pt
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com and the MGM Grand Garden Arena box office.
With injuries sidelining title-holders Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, and Georges St-Pierre, BJ Penn headlining UFC 107 in December, and heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar potentially unavailable due to an extended illness, UFC 108, generally one of the most-stacked cards of the year, could be left without a championship headliner
Currently, a matchup between light heavyweight contenders Rashad Evans and Thiago Silva is the top bout on the pay-per-view card.
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I think this is a huge eye opener for the UFC. The depth really is not there in terms of top talent. I think this is a perfect opportunity to roll the WEC into the UFC and start highlighting more fighters of higher quality. Mike Brown, Aldo, Faber, Cerrone, Torres are all guys who could be on a main card if not headline some shows. Also, ring ding ding, lets get Hendo signed and get him ready to fight. This is crazy. The UFC should be able to put on at least 2 major fighters on every card and at least one champion. Let the undercard build your bench of quality, but there is no reason the top 4 maincards are full of names that guys know. The PPV money is there, pay these guys and get them in the ring. Hell, this is an opportunity for the ICEMAN to make his return.
dude i know this is the perfect time 4 chuck to come back n put him n there against rich franklin. thats a fight that i think people want 2 see
There’s been speculation on Twitter that the UFC could pull Kimbo from fighting Houston and have him fight Chuck at 108 instead.
There is a fight chuck can win. But, I doubt they make that fight happen. What do you wanna bet once Randy beats Vera down they try to make Chuck vs. Randy 4.
I would like to see Nate Marquardt fight Vitor.
“At least on champion on every card.” They have three injured champions right now and one that is sick, that is not their fault. Not to mention, Brian Bowles (WEC bantamweight champion) is also injured.
UFC has ran MMA into the ground. It is to saturated. I mean come on there use to be 3 or 4 pay per views a year with the best talent in the world. Now it is on every night. Kids off the street and the bums from the ultimate fighter series. Now a days anybody can get in the cage. If Michael Bisping and Brandon Vera can do it then anybody with a 2 hands and feet can certainly give it their best. UFC going mainstream has ruined the sport. Dana keeps saying he has made more millionaries where are they. These fighters drive honda civics and live in a one bedroom apartment. Does he keep the money for them until they turn a certain age or what. UFC 108 will be the downside of the UFC. Dana has ran it into the ground like Vince McMahon has ran WWE into the ground. We see the same fighters fighting each other over and over again. It is pro wrestling with 4 oz gloves.
A little overboard my friend
Definitely overboard, but the guy does make some good points. I have stated many times that this year has had too many events. I’d love to watch an event every weekend, but the bottom line is that they have struggled with putting together all the cards they had planned. They should start booking fights before venues, or Mr. Thomas will be telling the truth of them running the sport in the ground. As it is, I know many casual fans who like to mock upcoming events with quotes such as “what is this 158 coming up”. Immature yes, but these were also the guys who dished cash while the sport was taking off. Losing those fans one at a time is driving the sport in the ground. I really hope they realize this, and fix some of the holes in 2010.
Figs,
I understand where you’re coming from, but if they only ever put on event with “big stars” top to bottom on the card, they won’t be able to build new stars for the next generation, once the current stars fall off/retire.
It would be nice to see the price come down on the PPV. The Fightnight cards, free UFC cards, and spike prelims are nice and a step in the right direction. But it seems like my cable bill is 150 dollars a month and 100 of it goes to the UFC. I’m glad to pay it, but whats up with the fights all being free in Europe?
You must be new to the sport huh?
Pardon me, struggled to put on at least 4 or 5 cards this year, not all of them. Sorry, I was kind of on a rant.
Dude you talk garbage (IMO)! Talking about WWE and MMA is the same paragraph is just dumb! The sport still has a lot of growing to do and there will be ebbs and flows within the talent pool. At the moment there is an elite few which are head and shoulders above the rest within the weight, making finding stiff competition a longer process (Not just somebody to pretend to throw around). This mixed with the current injuries is bringing the ebb of top cards at the moment. But and I mean but THIS DOSE NOT MEAN anybody with a 2 hands and feet is fighting, they are just not at the level of high standard this amazing sports champions are.
In all if you’re going to just Poo Poo the sport go do it somewhere else and not on the frenzy. Yes some cards are not as good as others and yes IMO they should cost less on PPV, but please never mention Dana and Vince McMahon or UFC(MMA) and WWE(Fake Fighting) in the same sentence again IMO.
Thomas this is good
Which this quote is probably some weird new way of fighter bashing or something, anyone always can give it their best at everything or anything, not just MMA, com’on guy… Or
Now I’ve seen Chuck Liddell’s house and its NICE so is his Ferrai and the 6 other vehicles he has, o and Forrest drives his Scion because it was free and gets good gas mileage, Anthony Johnson just bought 2 new motorcycles, Pat Barry just deposited 120,000 dollars into his bank account last Tuesday I believe….
So if you sincere in these beliefs that Dana is ruining our beloved sport than don’t tune it, this isn’t WWF com’on now, I’ve moderated comments for a long time saying the same thing when Brock Lesnar came over, fact is the man is a beast and he is the champ, this is a business that sells great fights ie a promotion and ZUFFA wishes to be the best in the business and ya know what they are, so seriously don’t tune in if you feel this way…. Anti Dana White, o he is the cause of the worlds problems yadayada, half asss troll job UFC=WWF com’on….. I’ve said my peice and I’m going to leave now best of luck with everything, I’m tired
And what Dana White actually said was…… He has made more millionaires in the sport of MMA, then anyone else….
Which is true
OK.
It seems about once a week now that I’m sort of forced to post the following in response to someone’s oddly-placed attacks on either Dana White or the UFC.
Pardon me if you’re read this one before, but I promise to stop posting this as soon as people stop posting sh!t like “The UFC has run MMA into the ground”, or other nonsense that breaks down to Dana White = Vince MacMahon.
Here goes:
It bears posting, repeatedly if necessary, that without Dana White [and his partners] most of us would not be discussing MMA at our current level of passion and frequency, AND we wouldn’t have a platform upon which to discuss it, considering as how this excellent site used to be called UFCdaily.
Also, the vast majority of North Americans would still be in the stone age, metaphorically speaking, as it relates to MMA.
The guys from Tapout would still be hawking their wares out of the back of an old Suburu Forrester or Dodge minivan instead of being valued at nearly 10 million dollars, self-financing a reality show wherein they cruise the country in a motor home ticketing out at like 125 large, sponsoring at varying levels dozens of MMA fighters nationwide, and seeing every 3rd guy on the street between ages 15-30 wearing something rocking their logo.
Without Dana White, Matt Hughes would be the toughest farmer in Hillsborough, Chuck Liddell would be the toughest kickboxing instructor in San Luis Obispo, BJ Penn would still be a BJJ prodigy, but no one outside of Hilo would know who he was, or more accurately, would care who he was, Rich Franklin would be the baddest math teacher in “the ‘Nati”, as the bizzes call it, and Randy Couture would not in fact be MMA’s “Captain America”, but more likely one of the most respected high school or college wrestling coaches in the Pacific Northwest.
Dana White and his Zuffa partners are directly responsible for turning not only a floundering NHB promotion that all but bankrupted SEG into the planet’s premiere MMA organization valued at anywhere from half to three quarters of a billion dollars IN A DOWN MARKET, but also is mostly responsible for accelerating the evolution of shoot-fighting and other semi-refined combat sports [Pancrase, Vale Tudo, hybrid wrestling, etc.] into modern MMA.
It’s Dana White who has labored long and hard to get MMA legalized in soemthing like 40 states, and subsequently turned the UFC into PPV’s hottest ticket. If you recall prior to Dana White becoming El Supremo of the UFC, hardcore porn was more welcome on PPV than MMA.
Now, the UFC logo is seen in malls accross America, and hundreds if not thousands of martial artists are training to become MIXED martial artists, because they have been exposed to something that they might otherwise have not experienced.
And who do they have to thank for that?
Dana Fu<king White, thats who.
So please, before any of you fire off a response contradicting this post, which reasonably can't be done, I ask you to stop, and re-read this post as many times as it takes for it to sink in, and more to the point, UNTIL YOU GET IT.
If it weren't for Dana White, there wouldn't be any sport in its current incarnation for us to be following.
All I ask is that you THINK ABOUT IT, long and hard, before ever posting sh!t again at the frenZY like "Dana White is bad for MMA", or anything remotely to that effect…
Before saying anything else, I would like to state that I am definitely of the opinion that Dana White is more times than not doing good for the sport. Also, I want to say that I agree with everything you said in regards to the accomplishments and forwards evolution of MMA that Dana and Zuffa have garnered and made possible. With that being said, I sort of felt compelled after reading your post to play somewhat of a devil’s advocate.
While it may be true that Dana White has catapulted MMA leaps and bounds from Brazil, to the pre-Zuffa NHB competition to the current incarnate of present day (and this is a great and praiseworthy feat imo) that does not mean one cannot take a critical stance on some of his actions if they bring a good thought-provoking argument to the table, which is backed by facts. Now in saying that I don’t think that anyone here in this article that has ‘bashed’ Dana White or the UFC has brought such an argument to light. I wholeheartedly agree that the ‘Dana = Vince/UFC = WWE’ analogy is at best ill-conceived and at worst laughable because to the current day there are no facts that truly substantiate such an assertion making it more than subjective opinion.
My point is (and what probably led me to respond) is that I see this counter-attitude at times that is personally bothersome. Some people seem to think that since Dana White has done all these great things for MMA (which he has) that this gives him a free pass on any future action he takes in respect to the sport – and more troublesome than that – is that no one should have an opinion that maybe Dana White does do some things at times that might be reasonably perceived as harmful. Again, personally, I don’t believe that Mr. White has done anything intentionally harmful or malevolent against the sport (save an overly-profane quote here and there – but hey, I’m used to that by now), but I do believe that people should be able to criticize him because, come on…the guy can be controversial at times – I think we can all agree on that. Again, preferably, criticism should come with some thinking behind it.
Maybe an analogy would help my point: say there is a person that finds a stray dog that is sick on the streets. He takes the dog in, gives it a home, food, water, etc. and nurses it back to health. Now, while this is all fine and good, that doesn’t mean or give the right to the owner to be able to beat the dog later on. Also, it doesn’t mean that currently, even though the owner throws the dog a delicious bone one day, he can beat him the same day, and it’s ok. This analogy is contrived, simple, and exaggerated but the point still stands firm – just because you do great things for something in the past, and still do currently, you still don’t automatic exoneration from all ill-doing that you currently might be incurring as well.
Again, I’m not saying that Dana White is doing anything as bad as ‘beating the dog’ currently, but I can see that others might have a different pov than me, and if they have a half-way thought out case to make about it, then I’m all for hearing it.
If you are indeed all for people criticizing or having a negative opinion of Dana White (as long as they don’t make any ridiculous unfounded assertions) within reason, then you can basically forget everything I’ve posted. My only point was that sometimes it seems there is this attitude that permeates among some that, ‘you can’t criticize Dana White at all, ever.’ Some of that seemed to shine through in your post, and if I misinterpreted it, or if you didn’t mean it that way, than you have my apologies.
P.S. How do I register on the forums? When I click the register link, it takes me to a link not found page (not a browser link not found page, but one created within the frenzy website).
If you register for the main site, it registers you for the forums. This can be done by following this link.
I’m not sure how much of my past stuff you may have read, but I’ve demonized Dana White almost as much as I’ve canonized him.
I tore him a new one when he brought in Brock Lesnar and fast-tracked him to a title shot against an aging and undersized legendary champion, I tore Dana a new one when he publicly disrespected both Nate Marquardt and Dan Henderson by first promising them title shots if they beat their opponents, and then reneging on said promises because Ed Soares whined worse than my goddaughter with a skinned knee because his man Anderson Silva might have to fight 2 top 185ers again.
Then I really ratcheted up my Dana-bashing when he added insult to injury to both Nate and Hendo by handing the 185 title shot to a man [Vitor Belfort] who has never won a single 185 fight in the UFC.
In the past I’ve given Dana sh!t for his bromance with Tito Ortiz, his handling of the Randy Couture affair from a couple years back, and how he continues to allow the AKA guys like Koscheck and Swick to repeatedly call out an aging legend like Matt Hughes, who has repeatedly said he’s fighting for love of the sport, and to make a few bucks to take care of his farm and family.
If Dana wanted to, he could end all of this nonsense with one phone call over to AKA, and basically let everyone from Cook and Camarillo to Swick and Kos know that the next time he reads one more fu<king thing about Kos or Swick wanting to fight Matt Hughes, their next fight will be against each other.
Period.
I've also called Dana out for flat-out lying to the fans regarding the inherent quality of this season's TUF.
Speaking of which, I also flamed Dana White for allowing Kimbo Slice, a man I previously referred to as an "Internet carnival booth-fighter", to participate in TUF, the UFC's premiere promotional free TV vehicle.
Since then I've realized that Slice is just a guy trying to break into the sport, and isn't to blame for how others shamelessly promoted him, and I realized that Dana was being fair to extend a TUF opportunity to Slice, especially after talking as much sh!t about Slice as I've previously posted here at the frenZy.
Apologies if my earlier post made it sound like I think that Dana White walks on water, and can do no wrong.
I'm 100% behind the MMA fanbase holding Dana accountable, seeing as how he has become the de facto caretaker and primary underwriter [with his parnters] of our sport.
As long as the crticisms are valid, and don't venture into the ridiculous such as WWE/Vince MacMahon comparisons, I'm good with whatever is posted here at the frenZy…
Yeah, I do browse through the site pretty frequently, although I usually don’t post so often. I probably should have checked your past posts, but I didn’t, and I also forgot about any dana-criticism posts with your name above it. No worries, seems like we’re on the same page anyways.
In any case, at least my post got some of my thoughts out about the issue. There’s always two sides to any spectrum, and sometimes it seems as if people are either all about crucifying D. White or putting him on a pedestal. Those one-sided mentalities bother me, but as you’ve demonstrated, you don’t fall into either.
And ty, Justin…much appreciated.
You’re welcome.
IMO, most of the Fight Night Fights with lesser names are better fights. They have all to gain and lose and let it all hang out. I think the best fights on a card so far has been the Ultimate Fight Night for the Troops in North Carolina. Those were sick fights with Kos being the big name.