{"id":168042,"date":"2025-09-25T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168042\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:03:08","slug":"ufc-perth-forced-to-slash-ticket-prices-after-disappointing-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168042\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Perth forced to slash ticket prices after disappointing sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scheduled for this weekend (Sat., Sept. 28, 2025) from the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, the latest UFC \u201cFight Night\u201d event was never intended to be the most talent-rich card. At one point, there were 15-fights scheduled for the event, but this was a case of quantity over quality. Outside of the main event \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/391298\/carlos-ulberg-willing-sacrifice-blood-teeth-make-kill-ufc-perth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent Light Heavyweight clash<\/a> pitting former title challenger Dominick Reyes vs. rising contender Carlos Ulberg \u2014 the event is filled up with names unknown to most fight fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All told, the fight card is a far cry from UFC\u2019s most recent visit to Perth, which saw Dricus Du Plessis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/18\/24221592\/ufc-305-results-biggest-winners-loser-du-plessis-adesanya-last-night-espn-perth-title-fight-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defend his Middleweight crown<\/a> versus Israel Adesanya in August 2024 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/8\/17\/24218558\/ufc-305-results-live-streaming-ppv-updates-dricus-du-plessis-vs-israel-adesanya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 305<\/a>. Over 14,000 fight fans attended UFC 305, but this latest return to Perth is struggling to garner the same attention. Per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/7NewsAustralia\" rel=\"nofollow\">7 News Australia<\/a>, the event has only sold half of the available seats and is cutting prices on tickets as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe [Western Australian] governments financial investment in cage fighting is in question tonight,\u201d began 7 News Australia presenter Rick Ardon. \u201cWith poor ticket sales to a UFC event this weekend. UFC \u2018Fight Night\u2019 is being staged at RAC Arena, but the venue is only about half full, and tickets are now being discounted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reporter Geoff Parry added on, \u201cThe response to UFC\u2019s return visit to Perth this year has been disappointing, not the sellout of previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ardon mentioned an important point to consider for the UFC: site fees. In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/3\/28\/24114411\/ufc-305-headed-down-under-to-perth-as-part-of-new-site-fee-deal-with-tourism-western-australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC signed a deal with the Western Australia tourism board<\/a> to bring multiple events to Perth. Though official numbers were not released, the state of New South Wales paid $16 million to bring four UFC events to Sydney over four years back in 2023 for some context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC will make that site fee money regardless of how well tickets sell, so the promotion likely isn\u2019t too bothered by a slower turnout at a card largely staffed by relatively cheap Oceanic fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the complete UFC Perth card, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/385198\/ufc-perth-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-ulberg-vs-reyes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scheduled for this weekend (Sat., Sept. 28, 2025) from the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, the latest UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-168042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}