TICKETS to next month’s UFC event at Dublin’s 3Arena are expected to sell out within 20 minutes of going on general sale tomorrow.
UFC Fight Club members have already been given priority access to buy tickets to the 9,000-seater event, which is headlined by Donegal’s Joe Duffy against American Dustin Poirier on October 24.
The card also features bouts involving Irish fighters Cathal Pendred, Norman Parke, Paddy Holohan and Aisling Daly, but fans face a fight of their own to get their hands on tickets, if the pre-sales are anything to go by.
“Our pre-sales have been stronger than they were last year,” Joe Carr, Vice President of International Development at UFC, told The Irish Post.
“In the pre-sale we’ve sold the same amount in 30 minutes that we sold in the first 24 hours last year.
“I hope everyone gets their tickets early on Friday because this thing is probably going to sell out in 20 minutes. The 3Arena is an amazing venue, but at the end of the day it only holds 9,000 people.
“The pre-sale has already sold out of its allocation and from what’s left of the general sale, based on the pace we witnessed in the pre-sale, I think this thing is gone in 20 minutes.”
Tickets will become available to the general public at 12:00pm on Friday, September 4, in what will be the third visit of the UFC to Dublin.
