Aldo McGregor CONFIRMED July 11 Vegas

Looking for flights for this is very annoying its like they are changing price every few minutes.

Uncle Dana doing us no favours with a July card.

Anybody know the best time to book flights for around this?

Booked 5 nights in the MGM Grand + flights for €1400

Not too bad.

Flying with United Airlines from Dublin to Philly. A 2 hour stop over there before hitting Vegas. Probably the shortest non-direct flight I found.

Booked through Expedia.

If anyone's interested, I just saw on facebook that ClickAndGo.ie are doing packages to Vegas including 5 nights in the MGM for €1299
I'm not sure how this price compares but might be worth checking out.

Flights and Hotel booked tonight!

Just wondering about the seating plan for the Garden Arena... What are the views like from the "cheap" seats??
Also from previous Vegas fights, what would the ticket pricing range from?

El Guapo! wrote: »

If anyone's interested, I just saw on facebook that ClickAndGo.ie are doing packages to Vegas including 5 nights in the MGM for €1299
I'm not sure how this price compares but might be worth checking out.

Note you will have resort tax to pay to the hotel on top. Still works out cheaper to book separate.

Just booked my flight and hotel. Got both for CAD $970 for 4 nights. Splitting the cost of the hotel with a friend and its in the Tropicana! Happy days... Just hoping nobody gets injured! I am a fight club member but dont think that will help much trying to get these tickets!

DrPhilG wrote: »

How do you figure that?

Well for the Dublin card i had terrible trouble getting 4 tickets together and that was teh second they went live for FC members. For the Porier fight it was a bit easier as there was only 3 of us going but still had to give it a good 4 tried to get 3 seats together in the cheaper upper tier of the MGM (Seats were great btw) so with this being a title fight and it would appear there will be plenty of Irish going as well as it being Int Fight week i just think it will still be hard. I know you have travelled to alot of fights and events but do you not thing there is going to be a surplus of people becoming FC members all scrambling to get tickets when they go live?

DrPhilG wrote: »

I don't think there will be more than 2000 Irish making this trip. There were 1500 in Boston, but Boston (iirc) is cheaper to get to, and fight tickets were half the price. Flights are very expensive for this one. Also I don't think Boston sold out until quite close to the event. I remember seeing "tickets now available" ads during other events only a few weeks before it.

Was it only 1500?
I heard Dana say 12%, which is 2000 I think. I'd expect 189 to do more than that. The amount of casual fans who are talked about going over is huge. That's if they all get tickets of course.

On the other hand, any Irish going over from Australia or anywhere won't count. As they base it off location the tickets are sold from.

Mellor wrote: »

Was it only 1500?
I heard Dana say 12%, which is 2000 I think. I'd expect 189 to do more than that. The amount of casual fans who are talked about going over is huge. That's if they all get tickets of course.

On the other hand, any Irish going over from Australia or anywhere won't count. As they base it off location the tickets are sold from.

PIMPHO wrote: »

Why do you reckon Fight Club members won't help in buying the tickets pre-sale?

Boston didn't sell out, despite what was said on the posters/adverts/write-ups. I bought 2 cheapseats for someone on my card the day of the weigh in. There was a few hundred nosebleeds empty up the back; I also remember cause there was a fella all on his tod with seats all around him standing up the very back just waving two of the McGregor/Siver blowup glowsticks over his head for the 5 hours There was probably 1,600 Irish over for that (TD Garden ~17k), for a closer (time away from home/off work etc.) and a much cheaper trip. I don't buy the post-Xmas comparison logic, most people have a cheap Jan anyway, and Vegas in July is probably 2-3x as expensive.

I'll say the same thing I've said to my panicked mates texting me every few days about it: People should relaaax. Getting tickets will be fine. In fact, there's solid logic/history to suggest that it will be easier to get them on general release than fightclub anyway, and potentially better seats due to allocations (which is always annoying for FC members). I don't expect anything over 2.5k Irish to go over when all's said n done, and add to that the fact that MGM cards are ridiculously expensive for the Americans to afford also.

I think the panic will cool closer to the time. It's great for everyone to say they're all gonna go (see a million people tagged in travel package posts on facebook), but it's prohibitively expensive at the end of the day, or just bad value tbh. It's gonna end up a €2.5-3k per person trip for a couple of days in Vegas, in and around summer holiday time (which is a tough case to make to the missus at home). You can still get flights at pretty much the same price as 4 weeks ago, and that's a pretty good marker in my view. There's a reason that so many go through travel agents for these things, handy enough to pay a deposit now and pull out in May.

Just announced that Robbie Lawler will meet Rory MacDonald for the 170 title at UFC 189 on July 11 in Vegas

Aldo vs Conor will be main event, Lawler vs Rory co-main

Getting tickets just got harder!

I really hope that MacDonald can showcase some of these takedowns like he did V Diaz at UFC 129. One of the best performances I've seen from any fighter since I started watching MMA. (Frankie Edgar's survival v Gray Maynard in their second fight a close second)

Booked flights and accommodation in the mgm just now...Can't wait! If the ufc could wrap aldo and McGregor in cotton wool between now and the fight, I'd really appreciate it

That should add a few more PPV buys, doubt Conor will be pissed. I must make sure I have nothing going on the hours around the tickets going on Sale.