METAL ON METAL Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Here's a full rundown of the events next week: Â WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONÂ Q&A WITH CARLY BAKER AND MICHAEL BISPING Â The Printworks Bierkeller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryko Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Gonna head down to the Manchester Central area to try and blag a free ticket next friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 Do many peeps on here have tickets for this or are all the people heading down going on the scrounge for freebies? From looking on Ticketmaster there's a LOT of seats left. Hope this doesn't impact on future events, if I were able to I'd be there 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 Do many peeps on here have tickets for this or are all the people heading down going on the scrounge for freebies? From looking on Ticketmaster there's a LOT of seats left. Hope this doesn't impact on future events, if I were able to I'd be there 100%. Â I haven't got tickets simply because of cost. If the card was worth the price, i'd happily pay. For me, that card is one big fight short of making it worthwhile. There's no way Melvin Guillard and Ross Pearson should be co headlining a massive arena like this. Â On the plus side, I've managed to sort out a flexi day for this and will be heading there with my mate on Friday to enjoy the festivities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightningxlock Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I managed to get a pair of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleslie92 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Best bet of getting free tickets is at the event at Printworks at 4pm tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 I guess Supremo is the best to ask here, at the weigh ins, where do you go and what do you do to get free tix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 It's just been tweeted round. Go to The Beerkeller in the Printworks at 4pm, Bisping's there & there's a free ticket giveaway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleslie92 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Fighters Only are also giving away 100 tickets online, which can't be a good sign... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 It's just been tweeted round. Go to The Beerkeller in the Printworks at 4pm, Bisping's there & there's a free ticket giveaway. Â Unfortunately I'm only in Manchester Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 Yeah, between Fighters Only having A HUNDRED tickets to give away, Bisping's Q&A tomorrow guaranteeing free tickets and @UFC_UK also doing #HuntForUFC events later this week, it definitely looks like there's a shit load of freebies up for grabs. Â They could obviously do things differently this time, but if it's anything like it was the past two times they came over to the UK, the easiest way to get a hold of some free tickets is keep an eye on twitter just after the weigh ins. Both in Nottingham and in London Dana simply sent out a tweet fifteen minutes or so after the weigh ins, telling people where he would be giving them out. Both times it was at or around the arena. Hopefully it'll be similar to Nottingham, when there was only about a dozen people trying to get their hands on hundreds and hundreds of tickets and less like London, when there was a near riot with shit loads of people nearly crushing Nick The Tooth to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted October 22, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2013 Yeah, between Fighters Only having A HUNDRED tickets to give away, Bisping's Q&A tomorrow guaranteeing free tickets and @UFC_UK also doing #HuntForUFC events later this week, it definitely looks like there's a shit load of freebies up for grabs. They could obviously do things differently this time, but if it's anything like it was the past two times they came over to the UK, the easiest way to get a hold of some free tickets is keep an eye on twitter just after the weigh ins. Both in Nottingham and in London Dana simply sent out a tweet fifteen minutes or so after the weigh ins, telling people where he would be giving them out. Both times it was at or around the arena. Hopefully it'll be similar to Nottingham, when there was only about a dozen people trying to get their hands on hundreds and hundreds of tickets and less like London, when there was a near riot with shit loads of people nearly crushing Nick The Tooth to death.  I don't know when the UFC are going to learn with this shit? Surely this can't be a sustainable business model?  Every fan in the know are simply just waiting for freebies and won't spend the absurd asking price the UFC demands. Crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL ON METAL Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 If it's a help to anyone after tickets without enduring the mental ticket giveaways, the fighter hotel they and they crew tend to stay at is the Crowne Plaza - we inadvertently stumbled upon it before the UFC 105 weigh-ins. We also bumped into Dana as he was going into the North America Travel agents, oddly enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2013 the ticket situation is a weird one, the UFC are clearly happy to just hand out anything they don't sell. You'd think lowering prices and just selling every ticket would be the more sensible option but they must feel that the gate money they do take is enough, they wouldn't keep doing this otherwise surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted October 25, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted October 25, 2013 It's all about the bigger picture & long term. The UFC will be getting paid from both TV & the live gate. Manchester Arena is the biggest in the UK so selling out the cheap seats on the top tier isn't far off the equivalent of selling out Nottingham Arena completely. By lowering ticket costs they might make more 'legit' gate money but the wider perception/message is that they're dropping prices/struggling. Some hardcore fans might be aware that they're giving away a shitload of tickets but those fans aren't the ones that need to be won over, they're already invested in the product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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